No university graduates more Fortune 100 CEOs than Texas A&M
U.S. News and World Report, a publication well-known for its college rankings, tallied the scholastic backgrounds of the Fortune 100 CEOs. Those are the men and women in charge of the nation's 100...
View ArticleComparing colleges with ASD programs
My son is a high school senior, and has Aspergers, ADHD and mild anxiety. Executive functioning (organization, time management, attention, self-advocacy) and picking up on social cues are difficult for...
View ArticleIs Block food plans better than 3 meals a day option? Trying to choose -they...
The college son is attending has 3 options.. all the same cost I guess... 21 Meals a Week Plan 220 Meals Block Plan 180 Meals Block Plan/150 Flex Purchase Points How does this work.. details are not on...
View ArticleRevised loan program "Repaye" will reduce loan payments and forgive them...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/your-money/revised-program-will-reduce-student-loan-repayments.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 NY Times Article link in case you missed it, states that the...
View ArticleDealing with the freshman weepies
DD's best friend is leaving for college today. Most of the rest of her gang is leaving within a week. DD still has two and a half weeks to go. After a full summer distracted by work at a day camp, she...
View ArticleCollege location / town
My D and I looked at a college that seems like it would be a perfect fit.......if we could pick it up and move it to another town! The area surrounding campus just seemed run down and not particularly...
View ArticleHere is what can happen if you fake your residency in Georgia order to get in...
This guy got caught. He may end up in jail. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/police-accuse-man-of-faking-residency-for-daughter/ngfpx/
View ArticleNext Stop: Harvardland
" … Nine of 10 prospective Chinese visitors to the United States want to tour a university, according to a survey last year of several thousand by Attract China, which helps hospitality companies woo...
View ArticleWhy are teachers so resentful of communications from parents?
The school will state repeatedly that they want parent involvement. But you ask one question - as nicely as you can - and you get the feeling that not only that teacher, but now all the teachers, brand...
View ArticleTraveling across country and having baggage anxiety
My H, DD and I are traveling on Monday morning to school across the country and are taking several suitcases and, hopefully, boxes. In this forum, months ago, someone suggested using U-Haul boxes in...
View ArticleIs campus visit a MUST for U of Chicago and Northwestern?
Our college counselor drafted a college list for our soon-to-be Sr. son. It included U of Chicago and Northwestern. She said campus visit is a MUST for both, but we are struggling with summer schedule....
View ArticleWhat kind of calculator for college statistics?
My daughter will be a psych major. So the only math she'll have is statistics, and then some psych classes that use it. What kind of calculator will she need? A Ti-84, or is that more than necessary?
View ArticleGoing back to art school after $118k in student loan debt? Is it possible to...
I posted a thread a while back about cautioning people to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I am now about to ask advice about from others. Currently, I am in the process of pursuing a degree in nursing. I...
View ArticleWill i get accepted into any colleges?
Hi i am a senior in high school have recently messed up my life through 9th and 10th grade i have gotten suspended in a charter school i have received a d in environmental science and i have failed a...
View ArticleIf a student did this....
I have been struck this week by the mistakes I have seen coming from certain schools. Mistakes that if a student made them would've resulted in some adult telling them that if they made those kinds of...
View ArticleMoved: Anybody have knowledge of living in Sweden? Daughter doing a year abroad.
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View ArticleThe beginning of a drama or the embryo of the solution? Tenured faculty let go
After Ashland University on Friday laid off 23 instructors -- many of them tenured -- and eliminated another nine teaching positions, President Carlos Campo described the future at the financially...
View ArticleChild Support Issues
Hi I'm a student, but I'm posting in the parents forum because I think you guys would be able to answer my question. So I'm going to be starting school in the Fall and going to be living away. My...
View ArticleAnyone else have trouble motivating their applicant through the process?
My younger sister's starting the app process, but there's a lot of frustration on both of our ends. I think she has a fear-of-failure. She's not a very competitive applicant - middling to low GPA and...
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