Posts Tagged ‘College Planning’
May 16th, 2010
Maybe I was just the product of bad counseling or maybe while they were mentioning grades, I just wasn’t listening. But now that I accept my own children and now that my oldest is preparing to access college, I am actual animated that they accept not inherited my aboriginal bad habits. Ever back my kids could accept what we were adage to them, my wife and I accept stressed to them that scholarships are the rewards for accepting good grades (and acceptable test scores). Whoever said that you accept to pay the price for good grades had it all wrong?
Goofing off, that was my problem if I was in high school. On days if I capital to get it done, I did. But on the days if I just didn’t feel like giving it my all I didn’t. As a result, my 4 years of high academy were a lesson in beneath achievement, abounding of C’s, D’s and some F’s. I learned the harder way that a 1.8 GPA will not get you accustomed in many schools.
College is Not Quite Me Far too abounding high-schoolers acquiesce their parents or associate burden from accompany to pushed them into enrolling into college, if they artlessly did not accept it in them. What usually happens to these kids is that they wind up accomplishing ailing and flunking out or just dropping out after a few semesters.