Sallie Mae To Offer Increasingly Popular Parent Student Loans
"For years, parents have assisted their children in shouldering the increasingly high cost of college: co-signing private student loans, taking part in federal loan programs, and saving for years to...
View ArticleDisqualification Appeal Help
I am A freshman I was just notified of my disqualification to UCI and I have a chance to appeal my case. This appeal is conducted face to face with a UCI Faculty Member rather than a formal written...
View ArticleSummer jobs and Volunteer work
Can you please share your experience if only if you want to: What are some of the summer jobs or volunteer work that your freshman (13 or 14 or 15 year old) do? How was the over all experience of the...
View ArticleWhat do you consider the most? school name or school's cost for Undergrad...
Does it really matter which undergraduate school you attend for Business/Finance?
View ArticleWait list American University
My daughter has been wait listed at American. She is a National Merit Finalist, has a 3.9 GPA, 2300 SAT score, several AP classes. She is involved in numerous extra curricular activities, plays 2...
View ArticleWill scaling back improve learning challenges and mental health issues?
Sounds like it just might: http://raisedgood.com/extraordinary-things-happen-when-we-simplify-childhood/
View ArticleVanderbilt vs UVA for Neuroscience/Pre-Med
My daughter has been accepted to both. We won't receive any financial aid, so we are wondering if it is worth paying double the amount of money for the privilege and quality of life and education at...
View ArticleCelebrations for college acceptances ?
For each hi reach college acceptance my son is forcing me to watch a Jennifer Lawrence movie. It may have been too high a price to pay... After that a fancy dinner, probably at Morimotos. I'm ruined...
View ArticleTuition Exchange
My husband works at a college and we are counting on the tuition exchange program to help pay for our son's school. He has applied to Syracuse and already received a letter from Syracuse that he has...
View ArticleYale Community at Odds Over Consent
The elephant in the room next to the triumph of the Yale men's basketball team is the murky circumstances of possible sexual misconduct by the just-expelled team captain. No matter what ultimately...
View ArticleColleges for the Jewish "B" student
I have been debating for a time about starting a thread such as this. On one hand, I want to make sure I have considered every college this should be on my son's list. On the other hand, every time...
View ArticleMoved: Former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting unconscious...
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View ArticleWhy is cheating over looked?
As a parent of a college senior, I am perplexed about suspected cheating in her engineering classes. She takes her exams at the disability resource center. However, when she returns to class, her...
View ArticleBerklee Acceptance but no Scholarship
My D was accepted into Berklee, but they "cannot offer a scholarship at this time". She thinks this means that they really don't want her. It's weird, because she received healthy scholarship offers at...
View ArticleDo you go WITH your kid to the summer orientation day?
Hi, I was wondering if it is customary for the parents/families to go with their kids to the summer orientation sessions? (I'm not talking about the orientation that happens during dropoff weekend)...
View ArticleThink about a Health Care Directive for your son or daughter
Once your child turns 18, you cannot get access to their (health and school) records unless they sign a directive or release. Does anyone have a link (or willing to send me) or post a free sample...
View ArticleAtlantic Article
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/college-admissions-narcissists/475722/ Interesting article in the Atlantic. A lot that we already talk about. I thought the part about using...
View ArticleStruggling to find safeties -- advice please!
We’re really struggling to find safeties for my daughter (currently a junior) to apply to. In a (large) nutshell: GPA 3.6 UW, 4.1 W. Top 10% of a class of 500. APs: US History, Psych, Eng Lit, Eng...
View ArticlePushing my son for elite school
Hello All, I'm new to this site and I wanted some input from other parents or students. I've always wanted my son to attend Stanford. He is a smart and wonderful kid. I didn't talk about it too much I...
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