Penn State has spent over $92 million on Sandusky scandal with more to come
Penn State University has spent more than $92 million in the last two years on settlements and related costs in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal — and it could still face claims from six or even...
View ArticleRemember federal income tax deductions for student loan interest payments
After a student graduates, they may start to do their own taxes, but may not be knowledgeable about the system. It is good to remind your son or daughter about federal income tax deductions that are...
View Articlea comforting message
To all you seniors and parents who are out there in cyberspace freaking out.... Way back in the dark ages.... lots of us applied to one or two schools. Sometimes we visited (if Greyhound went there and...
View ArticleTo Take or Not To Take?
jcort1 Posts: 13 Registered User New Member Yesterday at 11:22 am · in World Languages My dtr is a high school senior. She has taken 4 years of Honors Italian and has an A to A- average all 4 years. AP...
View ArticleWhen S begins college, he'll have to adjust to more change than the average...
Here are the changes he'll experience in list form ... just to be as succinct as possible: 1. Returning to the US from living abroad in Asia for 5 years (ages 14-19) with only 3 visits to The States...
View ArticleSo we're taxed on our son's merit scholarship? :0
Are we the only ones surprised to learn this? I'd just assumed that it simply meant a reduction in the tuition by the amount of the scholarship! Foolish me. It's no big deal--the scholarship was a nice...
View ArticleCan I stop those college marketing emails?
After PSAT, son received many those emails. Today alone he got over 20 emails plus a couple of calls. Is there a way to stop it? He already applied for college this year and has no need for the emails.
View ArticleWhat do you tell your sons about consent?
There has been a lot going on in recent years around safety for women as it relates to non-consensual sex, and the climate is finally evolving into one in which only yes means yes. Hallelujah! As a...
View ArticleShould D16 submit her subject test scores to Ivys?
D16 has a 33 one time composite ACT score (35E, 30M, 36R, 32S). She retook the ACT to try to improve the relatively low math subscore and got another 33 (34E, 31M, 34R, 32S), making a superscore of 34....
View ArticleNew AP Computer Science Principles
Does anyone know anything about this course, other than what can be gleaned from the College Board site? This will be offered at my kids' HS next year. Would it be appropriate for a student that had...
View ArticleNew York Program Will Pay For Two Years Of Recent Graduates’ Student Loans
"For many recent graduates, repaying their education debt obligations can be a struggle. For some in New York, that struggle just got a little less cumbersome thanks to a recently launched student loan...
View ArticleLeaked Emails from concerned UChicago frat brother reveals extensive racism...
While extremely disturbing the pervasiveness and virulence is still present among some of the supposedly best and brightest, it's also good to hear that a minority of more conscientious frat members...
View ArticleSanta Clara University reputation
I got into my safety school Santa Clara University EA. It is a Jesuit University and I am Jewish and atheist. I don't know were else I will get in regular round, but if I have to attend my safety, what...
View ArticleThe Opposite Of Rape Culture Is Nurturance Culture
Amen. https://datingtipsforthefeministman.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/
View ArticleIf you believe your student isn't suited for their chosen major, do you say...
or just let the chips fall where they may? D19 had an uneven start to the college career...made dean's list even, except for mediocre grades in calculus. This semester of calculus is even rockier, and...
View ArticleCommon Core or not Common Core? Good for college or not?
My daughter has 2 choices in our area for high school (she is in middle school and on the fence which high school to attend) and basically wondering which is better for college applications.... She...
View ArticleDiffering College Search Approaches
Hi all, I just started my second semester of junior year, and I've done a lot of college searching for the past few months or so. After running a couple NPCs, my parents and I have established that...
View ArticleTuscaloosa PD Brutality on Bama Students
I'll take the bait. I'm surprised someone hasn't posted on this yet. Another case of police abusing their power. It's especially disgusting seeing that some of the officers didn't even care about being...
View ArticleIs it too much to ask for "safe spaces" for high school kids on college...
OU, UChicago, Missouri, Yale--and now this at our "second flagship." Surely, surely we can demand better behavior, if not kinder hearts, from our best & brightest. Dallas teens’ trip to A&M was...
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