submit resume, yay or nay?
We asked S2, a strong writer, to create a resume consisting of two essays about his top 2 ecs. he added a simple bulleted list called "other stuff". The essays were very strong, who knows if they...
View ArticleMy son left for college this fall but came back like a different person
After just a couple of months in college, my son personality has undergone some great changes. He used to be very close to me, and he has a very mature and stable personality. But when he came home for...
View ArticleHelp please: planning first college trip to the US (visiting from the UK)
HI everyone - I have taken on the ambitious challenge of taking my D & S (rising senior and a rising junior) to visit a medley of different colleges (they have different interests - Econ/Science),...
View ArticleZeeme and college applications
Have any of your kids needed to create a Zeeme page for their college applications to make them "come alive"? It's like a cross between a Facebook page and a Linkedin page. Student are invited to...
View ArticleCoed dorms, not on my watch. :)
Hi, I am a mom of a high school junior. I am seeing all of these dorms with coed bathrooms and coed floors. I am looking for college and universities, other than all male or female ones, where this is...
View ArticleQuestions about 529 plan set up by grandparents
Background: Our older daughter is entering 11th grade and our younger daughter is entering 8th grade. Their grandparents have set up 529 plans for each girl with considerable amounts in them. Our girls...
View ArticleBanned From Campus
at Northwestern: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/06/northwestern-bans-professor-campus-and-faculty-members-split-whether-move-justified Northwestern University has banned a full professor...
View ArticleGeorgetown to Address Slavery Issue by Granting Legacy Status to Descendants...
Descendants of slaves connected to Georgetown will get admissions preference. Except from the linked article: "The most appropriate ways for us to redress the participation of our predecessors in the...
View ArticleWhy doesn't anybody tell you?!?!
Just like nobody tells you what it's really like having a baby, no one tells you that you will feel like a limb is missing when your first child goes to college. : ...( (Like my fancy emoticon? They...
View ArticleFree Tampons and Pads at Brown
Maybe Colorado School of Mines should try this. From Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/free-tampons-pads-us-schools-496083 By putting menstrual products in women’s, men’s and gender-inclusive...
View ArticleHIgh School Transcript lists scores from multiple test dates
I have an oddball issue and wonder if any parent has some thoughts or has experienced a similar circumstance. My son took the ACT four times, receiving a very good score three times and an excellent...
View ArticleWe are stuck and need some help...
Hi, My child and I are having a hard time deciding between 2 activities to pick and which one will better help her college admissions process. We know college is not everything but we still want to...
View ArticleWhat do you do with them until they leave?!Those who have kids with late...
S is leaving for school at the end of next week! All his friends are away, the closest school he could visit is about 3 hours and he hates driving, plus most of his good friends are freshman and I...
View ArticleAm I hurting myself?
So this year is my last year is Senior Year. I have a 4.1 unweighted gpa and I'm student number 16 out of 515 of my class. I'm still taking a few rigorous courses: APES, PreCalculus, and Dual Credit...
View ArticleI'm 27, in debt, don't have a degree yet, and have no idea what I should do...
I'm in $110k of student loan debt, I think. My parents and aunt are helping me pay it off right now but I'm taking a break because my mental health is not great right now. I went to art school for two...
View ArticleAargh, common app won't let daughter upload her essay . . . .! FRUSTRATED!
OK, so last night my daughter was struggling to upload her common app essay. It is 624 words--under the 650 maximum. But the common app was giving her some kind of message that indicated it couldn't...
View ArticleAnyone have any encouraging or funny move-in stories?
We moved one of my daughters into her school last Thursday and when we got there the room was much tinier than we’d expected, the furniture larger, and the roommate (actually, the roommate’s mom, I...
View ArticleHow to evaluate - Campus Safety & Clery Act Data?
It's quite possible I'm taking this school comparison thing a bit too far. But anyway, one of the things I'm looking at are the Clery Act statistics -- mandatory crime statistics published by each...
View ArticleKids paying off their parents' Plus loans
Does anybody plan to persuade their S/D to pay off their Parent Plus loans? Personally, I would not take on debt like this, and I certainly would not expect my kid to pay it off if I did:...
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