Sentences with phrase «never get into college»

Our children will not be ready for college and career, they will never get into college and never get a job.

Is my child so damaged that she'll never get into college at all, or can I hold out hope for a third rate state school?

For my 12th grader it is all about the administration getting the school on the Newsweek top 1000 school list by making sure the high school kids are taking the max number of AP classes and if they aren't, trying to make them feel guilty for not doing so by telling them they will never get into the college of their choice with «a schedule like that!»

Not exact matches

College was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing cars on the side.

I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.

Think of it like college admissions: You can ace the interview, but you'll never get into the Ivy League with terrible grades.

Russian River Valley, California $ 28, Lou You know how you have that one friend that is hip and into music you've never heard of, but is still really chill and gets along with everyone, including your college buddies who now have kids and identify as Republican?

The book doesn't so much delve into that and I had more questions about how, but one thing it discusses is the helicopter - parented child who never has to figure anything out for himself, gets to college and after college and doesn't really know how to make things happen because he's never been given the opportunity / challenge or had certain character traits instilled.

«For some people, [the] path to college is so easy that they can get out into life and they've never really been challenged,» he tells NPR's David Greene.

University College London physicist Andrew Green, who investigates the strange phases of matter that arise at ultra-frigid temperatures, never imagined getting into string theory, but has found it extremely worthwhile.

I was never a big fan of breakfast growing up but somewhere after college got brainwashed into thinking I had to eat first thing in the morning to jumpstart my metabolism.

Many get into a less selective college, but never graduate.

Those kids were never put in more advanced classes that might help them get a better score on college entrance exams, or get into four - year universities or avoid taking remedial classes after high school.

For example, these students may rarely come into contact with anyone who has gone to college or who intends to go, so the aspirations and knowledge about getting to college never develop.

This comparison would be little more than hyperbole if one did not consider the lives lost to the streets of New Haven, the potential never realized, the dreams crushed, and the crimes committed by the un and undereducated who can not find legitimate employment, not to speak of their inability to get into college, all due to the fact that we are playing with our childrens» education with little, if any, intention to provide a quality one for all of them, eapecialy those who are cast away by the the Acheivement First Enterprise (you know, «the least of these») while lying about it, with the help of this publication.

She's got her awesome girls to hang out with, she's got her hilarious (and sometimes annoying) family, she's working towards high grades to get into a great college - she'd never give up any of that to be with a boy.But (spoiler alert!)

I play rugby well into college, in intramural and rec leagues, until the day I'm on the bottom end of a pile - up and my face and upper body are mashed into moist grass and I feel fully, with a clarity that comes only from pain, that I have a body, that it has a shape and texture, and I get up from the pile and walk off the field and never play again.

Never even crossed my mind loans could run dry, until the day 70 % into my degree I got a call saying no more college.

But these days, it's easy for a below - average student to get into a college, coast through and graduate having never boosted their human capital.

My one son was planning on getting a home through the first home buyers plan, but now that it has changed and is taking college loan debt into account, he and his future wife feel that they will never be able to buy a home because they both hve extensive student loan debt.

It is very important to balance the fun and youth and joy of being in college and finding yourself, without digging yourself into such a hole that you can never get out!

In his first year at college his painting tutor told him he will never get into the painting course in second year in Scotland's ECA: «That was fine by me until I didn't get into the illustration course, the animation course or the sculpture course.

Then there are the frustrating questions about your choice of career that crosses the line into condescension — as if the college degree and job you've got at current is never good enough for your parents, elders or relatives.

Whether you're a college senior starting to look into your post-grad prospects or a working professional with years of experience under your belt, the constantly shifting job market never gets easier to navigate.

You are never going to get into college.

Instead of wasting your time discussing how they could study better (because they won't, if that's not actually the problem in the first place) you can have a discussion about whether or not their performance in math class is actually important for the goals they themselves want to achieve (like getting into a good college, even if they never take another math class).

No matter how hard I study, I am going to bomb that test... No one finds me attractive... literally no one... I'm never going to get into college, at least not anywhere good... I'm not one of the smart kids... Most kids at school hate me... I'm such a loser... What if I do that and then they don't like me?