Hard to get into college? - Democratic Underground

Ernesto

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:46 AM
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Hard to get into college?

My 17 yr old just took the SAT. I'm sure just registering for the test got him on the mailing list but for the last 6 weeks, a day doesn't go by without mail from a well known school. Once he had 10 letters in a single day! Is there currently a shortage of college age kids or what?

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ananda

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:49 AM
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1. can't afford it

Good colleges and universities are literally getting unaffordable now.

But for Bush and Co. that's fine. Let em all go to community colleges or faith based institutions.

IOW, for god's sake, we don't actually want our young people to get educated and learn to think for themselves.

Sue

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KansDem

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Fri Mar-18-05 01:15 PM
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6. "Faith-based institutions" should be cheaper...

After all, you'd think there will be no costs associated with a science curriculum, laboratory materials, or science professors...

The Bible can be the science textbook.

Fundie Science (undergraduate level):
World made up of earth, fire, and water...

Fundie Advanced Science (graduate level)
World made up of earth, fire, water, and ether...

Here's your degree!

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FreedomAngel82

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:04 PM
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10. Right

Here in Tennessee at my school we're only getting 60% of the income we should be. I go to a local community school and that's even pricy and I'm only taking one class this term (not interested in anything else now). For that it cost around $800 in fee's and then around $50 for books and then $42 on this online program to do homework on. So it's very pricy.

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Nicholas D Wolfwood

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:49 AM
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2. It's common.

He might've signed up for it at a college fair. And as for it being difficult to get into college? No, it's not hard for most people to get into SOME college.

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eyesroll

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Fri Mar-18-05 11:50 AM
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3. The same thing happened to me in '91-92

I took the SAT and ACT and was bombarded with brochures for a full year. 'Course, it was a total waste, because I made my mind up early.

I think it's just par for the course.

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Warpy

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Fri Mar-18-05 12:01 PM
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4. There's a shortage of college aged kids with the bucks

to go without scholarships that come out of the college alumni fund.

Let him bask in the attention. I remember how flattering it was when I was being courted. Just be glad it's not a military recruiter on your doorstep, although that one is likely, too.

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Ernesto

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Fri Mar-18-05 03:52 PM
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9. One of my alma maters wrote me a letter

The USMC, that is, wanted me to know the benefits that they could provide for my son (fat f*cking chance!).

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RaleighNCDUer

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Fri Mar-18-05 01:10 PM
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5. It's not a shortage of kids.

It's a shortage of funding for the kids.

For some reason, a lot of people are worried about running up $80,000 debt before entering the workforce.

FREE UNIVERSITIES, NOW!

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seg4527

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Fri Mar-18-05 02:13 PM
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7. re

I'm going to have at least 40,000 dollar worth of debt.

I want to go to law school, but don't think I can afford it. Unless I can get some scholarships.

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RaleighNCDUer

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Fri Mar-18-05 02:37 PM
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8. I'm 51. I quit school back in the mid 80s to see my wife through

getting her MA, then her MFA. Once done, it was to be my turn. Instead, we got divorced, I went bankrupt and have been hanging on by my fingernails ever since. No way I can afford to go back to school, and since the bankruptcy I have developed a healthy dread of debt.

I'm screwed.

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Tyler Durden

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:17 PM
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11. Send him to a Canadian University.

Besides being as good or better than one in the US, if he goes over on a Student Visa he can get healthcare under certain circumstances AND it's CHEAPER.

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LiberallyInclined

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:26 PM
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12. even back in 1978, after i scored well on the ACT, i got TONS...

of colleges sending me brochures and applications.

i had a 32 composite, a perfect math section, and 99th percentile in every section.

if your kid did well on the SAT, look for it to get worse.

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Ernesto

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Fri Mar-18-05 10:44 PM
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13. Thanks for the input yoos guys

As a 60 yr old father of a soon to be college freshman, I need all the help I can get!

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ultraist

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Fri Mar-18-05 10:46 PM
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14. College grad rates have dropped to 23% of the population

Edited on Fri Mar-18-05 10:47 PM by ultraist

Thanks to Bush's funding cuts and poor economic policies. Like others said, people cannot afford it.

77% of our population does not have a college degrees, but we are supposedly the greatest nation on the planet.

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