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Originally Posted by Q44
I encouraged my D to follow her dreams. She made several excellent colleges but felt the Fashion Institute was where she wanted to go. As part of SUNY, being NY residents her tuition, R&B, fees and books ran about $21k. She could have picked a private college, a few offered scholarships that would have been competitive in price to the public. Some schools offered not much at all.
Regardless of public or private, a rock solid GPA and top notch SAT's are a must.
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That's case with Grand Canyon University in Arizona. It is private but offers a LOT of scholarships that allow it to be competitive with the public institutions of Arizona (ASU, NAU & UofA.) If it doesn't cost less, it costs about the same as going to a public university of Arizona.
I agree good grades and SATs are important. I remember my SATs not being good enough for SUNY Brockport but being fine for SUNY Oswego (where I actually went for my freshman year before transferring to a community college in NY and then on in AZ after moving.) I know the issue for me was from about the 9th grade until around the middle of 11/the beginning of 12th grade, I lost the fire. I wasn't motivated because I didn't have to study, I had recall and could regurgitate what the teacher said in say history or talk about plot points and the allegory in stories or the steps in a math problem so I would pass the state tests like it was nothing. I was complacent because I would be able to pull stuff out and get answers right. I didn't have the motivation in any subject but math. Even math I was sour on in 10th grade due to a teacher that expected me to come see her because I had trouble with remembering how to divide a fraction while my brother who also was great in math was at home the first day of class.
Gee I either stop and don't do any homework because it was the first few problems and goto "extra help" at 7:00 AM or have my brother help me at home wit the one question, I can finish it up in say 10/15 more minutes and be done with it. Oh what would I do?
Had I realized that it was important for college and that, MAYBE I would have been better. My parents didn't really talk about college with me until senior year just like my brother. I had no direction until I took a contemporary business course for 12th grade rather than economics and government.
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