Question: What is the average age at most Universities these days? I am 18, and I was going to a local community college here in California, but I decided to withdraw for other personal reasons (not to be discussed here). Anyway, I graduated high school with a 3.3 GPA, and 1140 SAT, (mainly because I [...]

Question: if any of you can help me out here it would be greatly appreciated. I recently found out from a reliable source saying that AP credits doesn’t save you money, but only time in college. Say you get a 5′s in AP English and AP Calculus BC, and they are 8 credits. Say that [...]

Question: Does any one know what types of companies (and specifically their names) will offer internships in exchange for some of college tuition being paid for. I know that some companies will offer you internship then say they’ll pay for some or all of college on the condition that the student will work for them [...]

Question: Saying he wants to stop the “frightening trend” of sharp college tuition increases, a Republican member of Congress has proposed penalizing schools that implement “phenomenal increases” in tuition. Harvard-which recently announced that undergraduate term bills will increase by 5.5 percent next year-would be one of many schools targeted by the measure, proposed in a [...]

Question: Perhaps, your daughter might enjoy one of the East Coast all-women’s schools such as Smith, Mount Holyoke, or Barnard. Although the students are free to attend classes at any of the 5 schools in the consortium (for Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, UMass, and Hampshire and Columbia for Barnard), there are few more diverse and [...]

Question: We are also more strict to her than most parents > around here: We have to talk to parents before first time she goes to > a house, > we have to know where she is at all times when she goes out, we > specify > the time she has to come home, [...]

Question: Any helpful tips for an unemployed political science and economics major who just graduated last spring and tried everything? ( 2.8 GPA, major university, some p/t jobs, community service) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Answer: I am a 20 year old college student currently enrolled at Western MI. It is a very nice school and [...]

Question: I’ve posted in this group before and here’s my situation as it stands right now. I’m a highschool dropout from Stuyvesant Highschool in manhattan. I had a 70.75 average for the five semesters I completed. I scored 1540 on the SAT last May (800 verbal, 740 math) I want to study math/physics in college. [...]

Question: I think that the class structure in the U.S. is maintained by our current system of financial aid awards. The rich don’t have to worry about the cost of attending an ivy league and the poor can qualify based on financial need. If you are an extremely smart poor kid not to worry you [...]

Question: Harvard’s Endowment stands at $19.2 billion according to this article from the Harvard Crimson. That is an obscene figure (more than Yale and Princeton combined, also more than Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke and University of Chicago combined.) Also, it is an issue of size: in terms of the number of students enrolled, Harvard [...]