"For Freshmen, Campus Life Poses New Risks"
Here’s an apt article from The New York Times by Lisa Heffernan (of the popular “Grown and Flown” blog) and writer/TV commentator Jennifer Breheny Wallace about the perils of navigating freshman...
View Article12-Year-Old Headed to Cornell University as a Student
http://today.ttu.edu/posts/2016/08/jeremy-shuler His parents are moving to Ithaca and living near campus so their son can walk to his classes. I suppose there are plusses and minuses, but his social...
View ArticleUC Capped Weighted GPA question
So I read through some school website and also here, but still couldn't find my answer, please someone help me out. For UC, AP classes are capped at 8 semesters. My daughter's school requires a total...
View ArticleThe Fallacies on CC that Won't Stop Being Posted
I enjoy looking through the posts on these boards and appreciate the advice of the regs and old-timers who more often than not point kids in the right direction. I am frustrated that, every fall,...
View ArticleGeorgia Southern vs Georgia College and State U
Beyond the obvious size difference, what are some other comparisons or differences to be made between the 2 schools.? Both would be out of state for us but looking for Southern options and both schools...
View ArticleBaylor Parents Caught in the Middle of Sending Kids to Baylor
A place to comment on how parents sending kids to Baylor respond and recuperate after news today of firing of head football coach in the midst of Baylor failing to adequately address victims who had...
View ArticleDo parents have influence on their college kids?
An article yesterday raised a question I have been thinking a lot about. How much influence do AND SHOULD parents expect to have once kids leave for college? This article on NYTIMES.com suggests we...
View ArticleGifted- Run or stroll
What's your take on sending gifted kids to undergrad programs. I'm not talking about some courses from one's local community college while doing regular high school. I mean full four year university...
View ArticleStudent who went on exchange junior year of h.s.
My daughter is going into her Senior Year of high school now. She spent her Junior Year in Zagreb through Rotary. None of her classes will transfer but she may get some elective credit for her Croatian...
View ArticleMoved: International paperback editions of US college textbooks?
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View ArticleSingle Room or Triple
DS is trying to decide whether he should live in a single or a triple room. He is an incoming freshman. Opinions?
View ArticleNeed Advice- Retroactive Withdrawal
Hey CC- question for any parents that had to deal with a similar situation for their kid. My niece had started college at a top university about three years ago, however she had a terrible first year...
View ArticleCan son get interesting math program in small school?
Son is feeling stuck looking for colleges. He loves math and music. He has taken BC Calculus, Discrete math and will take Linear Algebra his senior year (A's in all of them). He goes to a gifted magnet...
View ArticleWhen you defer enrollment for a gap year is it binding?
If our daughter gets into college 'X' but defers enrollment at 'X' to take a gap year, will she have to attend college 'X' next year? Or could she apply again to other colleges and perhaps reconsider?...
View ArticleTaking Summer School to Get Ahead, Not Catch Up
High-achieving students are enrolling to turbocharge grade-point averages or load up on advanced courses, but critics say the practice only adds to the inequities of the college admissions process....
View ArticleI want to go to college out of state, but my mom doesn't. Help on how to...
Okay, so first of all, I'm about to be an HS junior this September and I've been looking at colleges. I'm from Maine, by the way, and just so you know, Maine is like the complete 'nobody' state where...
View ArticleWhere did your 30 to 31 ACT kid get in? :)
My D is tired of everyone asking her if she is going to take the ACT again to try for that magical 32. She has taken it twice and gotten a 31 twice. So - in the spirit of all of these "where did your...
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