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| Sat, 01-01-2011 - 8:59am |
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Since we are talking about colleges and such, here is my situation:
Nichole is a Junior this year and she is taking ACT prep courses through the school, she will take her ACT's (I still have to figure out when that is and pay for it), get her driver's license, apply and hopefully get a job, put her art portfolio together and have someone look at it.
The one advantage we have at the moment is she has given up having to go to U of Michigan for undergrad which would have cost $50k a year for out of state tuition since she can't get residency in time. She is almost 100% sure now of going to Grand Valley where my brother currently goes and owns a house. Its actually less than $10k a year for out of state tuition, and she can live with him for the first year or two. If she doesn't want an on campus job, he can already get her a job where he works. And she has decided she can transfer to U of M for graduate work. As of right now she has decided on Art History and Conservation and possibly minor in teaching art or latin.
I can see the music ed issue, we talked a lot about that when Jordyn was really wanting to major in Art Ed with a minor in Latin Ed. Those are the ones that tend to get cut first...
Now the financial end.... sigh...
I hope Becca doesn't come home- sign into facebook and see the whole DELETE comment on her facebook page, and either have hurt feelings or hate this child even more than she already does :(
And I hope I don't get an email from mom saying "Hey- are the girls not talking to each other and do you know why"?
She also looked at art colleges, i think the one drawback for her was she didn't want to take ALL art classes for 4 years. She loves it, but she also loves taking the other classes and she realy wanted to take some latin classes in college.
And BTW, ACT tests are April 9th and June 11th this spring. We just got an email about them today, Texas is giving Juniors vouchers to take the ACT or SAT tests for free. Jordyn's school doesn't offer the ACT at their location, so if she decides to take it for a MI college, she'll either take it in Michigan when she goes next summer, or find another testing location here in town to take it.
That's the only thing i am afraid of, that Jordyn gets through these AP classes but then doesn't do well on the exam. Not that its totally wasted, but still... She's got one of the AP test study books that she works through along with her normal textbook and that seems to even be helping with her tests in class.
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