I chose to work with CSA because I feel very passionately about the organization's mission of helping
kids get to college.
What a district may portray as a great way to cut down on its dropout rate looks different when
students get to college.
The drive for more students to obtain a college degree, however, overlooks the immense difficulty
of getting to college in the first place.
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.
She did not plan on spending it until her children were college age, but she knows for them to
even get to college she needs to spend it now.
There are kids
who get to college and end up in remedial courses and face this long uphill climb.
Coverdell ESAs are great options for people who like picking specific investments, or may need to use the money for education expenses before the beneficiary
gets to the college level.
Law I wish someone would tell students when they
first get to college how important it is to get a a good GPA if they are considering law school as a future
«Many middle - class parents who are relatively successful in their fields know how to prep their kids to start kindergarten and what experiences they need to expose them to for their kids to be well - rounded, and
eventually get to college (for example, trips to museums and zoos).
There, liberals see better opportunities for poor and minority kids to
get to college without exiting the «public education» corral.
But
after getting to college — and now, having recently graduated — I know what nearly every student eventually figures out: You can anticipate a lot of your needs, but the most useful things you'll buy will likely not be on the University's recommended list.
When those
quarterbacks got to college they were so much more ready — and the elite college defenses are so much more advanced too, which helps the development of the quarterback.
When a
freshman gets to a college team, all of a sudden an 18 - year old, maybe even a 17 - year old, is teammates and sharing a locker room with 21, 22, maybe even a 23 - year old.
Upon getting to college, I have started hitting the gym without knowing what I was doing and I personally think I have gained too much muscles around my quads area.
Things took a turn for the worse when
Liz got to college, she began dealing with extreme fatigue, gained weight and dealt with a persistent sore throat on a daily basis.
«Kids are
getting to college today without a lot of the important noncognitive skills they need, without the ability to communicate and collaborate, because they've been so focused on resume building.»
(Do they include the same young people who will be directed into remedial English and math when they
actually get to college?)
As a nation, we need more schools — charter and district — that are closing achievement gaps and equipping students, regardless of their race or zip code, with the academic and socioemotional skills they will need to not
just get to college, but through college.
So what are New Orleans high schools doing to help their students not
only get to college, but finish with a degree?
Fortunately,
although getting to college is half the battle, each year more and more students can count on the College Advising Corps for support every step of the way.
Accounts are timed to the age of the student and become more conservative the closer the
child gets to college age.
Often when
students get to college, they must learn how to be independently financially responsible while inundated with credit applications.
When it comes to helping young
people get to college, practitioners are often left scratching their heads, wondering what went wrong when matriculation doesn't happen.
I totally understand what you mean
about getting to college and having so many paths you can take, especially when it seems like everyone is saying you should just choose the ONE path you will do for the rest of your life!
«But for a lot of the kids we serve here, those decisions get made for them before they
even get to college, or even high school.»
When she
eventually got to college (despite her low SAT scores), she told her guidance counselor that she wanted to be a brain surgeon.
And as Shirley Ann is pointing out, those matter a lot when
kids get to college, but they're not all that matters.
I think there's a lot of amazing people that do
n't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.
Angela Dong may be a vice president at Nike today, but it wasn't until
she got to college that she first became familiar with the athletic apparel behemoth.
I was so sure — until
I got to college.