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My exact point. Many, not all, but many prospective freshman applicants with less than stellar high school academic records are using the CARE program @ FSU as a back to enter FSU as compared to the regular hard working freshman applicant that has to compete with other highly qualified students.
In my opinion, many CARE students who did poorly in high school and during their senior year have an epiphany and realize that they had wasted their opportunity to attend a great school such as FSU by not taking high school seriously, begin to look to admission alternatives such as CARE. Presently, CARE @ FSU enrolls some 1100 students and I believe that these 400 CARE spots would be better suited by increasing the regular freshman class @ FSU with regular deserving applicants.</p>
<p>Most entering freshman student @ FSU and most other state supported schools throughout the US have financial difficulty paying for college. Many come from divorced families and many earned their high school diplomas in “less than average” public high schools. Also many entering freshman have at least one parent who never attended college and the student is unable to obtain any guidance regarding college life from their parent. WOW- I think that I just had an epiphany……
I guess everyone, one way or another will qualify for the CARE program………</p>