Today’s Muse. Channeling Mother. College Admission Night @MorganCoHs.
Last night Morgan County High School held a college information session for seniors and parents.
Good news is I remembered to be there.
That’s also the bad news.
But I pulled-on my big girl Romper Stompers and waded into the morass of college selection, admission testing, and counterfeiting bills smaller than 50 to somehow pay for all of this.
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Pardon me, nice lady representing Georgia College. Could you e-mail the information to my mother? She’s terribly good at organizing things from weddings to cookie sheets.
I’m more of a student of life. I excel at parties, dancing and intramural sports.
Just ask her. She’ll confirm this.
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Last night my college admission learning curve sky-rocketed.
I heard about specific schools in four breakout sessions (from 13 choices).
And I learned about a fabulous web site that can help even the most tremulous hiding-behind-her-mother’s-skirt mother — GA College 411.
It covers everything from financial aid, to finding a college and a career that’s a perfect match for your child.
There’s even a college planning timeline that starts in 7th grade. For seniors, it breaks down each month of this last year giving tips on what to do at each point in the process.
There are practice SAT and ACT questions.
They explain changes with the Hope Scholarship. A useful tool can pull up your student’s transcript and configure how their GPA stands with Hope.
So there is no excuse for not being on top of your game when it comes to helping a child apply to schools.
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Even me.
Standing here with my Romper Stompers cinched up to my clavicle.
Any advice on how to navigate this process…in 6-inch plastic platforms?
I know a little more than I did last year this time – but not nearly enough. Ask me anything you need to -we learned alot through our guinea pig (oldest child). I cannot give you any good ideas about funding. Thinking I may price a kidney as we head towards next year’s tuition.
-Trish
Thanx Trish. You helped him with middle school math (or elementary school) when it befuddled me. I know you can decorate the heck out of a dorm room. And I’ll be sure to drink my water. Can’t have my kidney go out. We couldn’t afford both that and 1st year college.
Nothing wrong with tech school.
They were represented too. Nothing is easy to get into these days.
It is good to see the website back up.