COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
30.12.2007, 08:00:00
When my students are denied acceptance to colleges, I tell them it isn't a rejection of them, it's just that colleges are trying to assemble a combination of people, talents and ideas, and that their particular strengths were not part of the mix. That's... |
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COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
23.12.2007, 08:00:00
Q I'm sure you hear this all the time, but my son is very smart. He was in a gifted program in elementary school, but due to attention and focus issues, he ended up at a private middle school for learning-disabled students. Freshman year in high school, he... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
16.12.2007, 08:00:00
The deadline for most college applications is approaching. Schools want to learn as much as they can about applicants, which means that students must scrutinize every aspect of the application to ensure that everything written - and implied - is the best... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
09.12.2007, 08:00:00
Q: Our son is a freshman at a large public university and has just completed his first academic quarter. He told us that he will likely have C's and D's in three of his four classes and has been placed on academic probation. This came as a complete shock to... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
02.12.2007, 08:00:00
Question: My wife and I are guardians of our grandson, a sophomore in high school. He plays football and, despite several moves and family turmoil in the past few years, gets good grades. An acquaintance told us that to get into college, our grandson must do... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
25.11.2007, 08:00:00
Several weeks ago, a friend sent me a hyperlink to an article in the Daily Bruin, the newspaper published by the students at UCLA. The headline said, "UC Proposes Changes to SAT Subject Tests' Weight." The journalists at UCLA had unearthed something... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
18.11.2007, 08:00:00
My student reluctantly passed the transcript across the table to me. "I don't know what happened in my sophomore year," he said. "I guess I screwed up." I tried to reassure him as I calculated his GPA. However, despite my efforts, the numbers were clear: He... |
COLLEGE BOUND / A weekly guide to higher education
11.11.2007, 08:00:00
Q: I am a sophomore in high school. I get mostly B's, and I play soccer. I have no idea what I want to study in college or where I'd like to go. My problem is that my parents are refusing to pay for college. They say they can afford to pay but, since they... |
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