auditting ballet worth $1360?

calmom
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:50:27 +0000

My daughter had a roommate who was pre-med and had something like 2 majors and several minors, and some extraordinary accomplishments – and was definitely piling on credits. She was an amazing young woman and my impression was that her GPA was quite strong. With her pre-med goal, I’m sure she would have cut back if she needed to, since she would have been very aware of the need to keep her grades up.

But at any college there are going to be some students who are just brilliant – they can take on the extra load in part because they are able to integrate and understand information very quickly. They are the ones who don’t seem to need to study to get A’s – at least you won’t find them sitting up until 3:00 am trying to work through problem sets. I guess they are just another group of students who need to check on tuition policies before they enroll.

I actually wasn’t looking at that for my daughter, but spent time focusing on college policies for study abroad, tuition & financial aid – since I anticipated correctly that d. was likely to want to spend at least a semester abroad, and that is another issue where tuition policies are all over the map. (Does the student pay the home college it’s full tuition? or does the student pay directly to the study abroad program, and if so, are there any fees that must also be paid to the home college? If the student is receiving financial aid, will that cover the study abroad tuition, travel, and housing costs? etc.)