Freshman Scholarships vs. Transfer Scholarships?

happymomof1
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:05:56 +0000

wakeup13 - If the issue is just (or primarily) math, it may be worth running your daughter through a screening for dyscalculia-type issues. Just as traveling at 55 mph instead of 65 mph can make a big difference in a long car trip, a tiny little glitch in processing can have a big cumulative effect when exams have time limits.

But you also know that the real secret to doing better on math exams like the ACT and SAT is just to do a bazillion problems of each type that is going to appear. If she can learn to recognize the different types she will be able to deal with them more swiftly and with much greater confidence. I haven’t looked at one of those exams in years, but when I taught SAT prep, I drilled some of the basic formulae for area, volume, etc. into my poor students’ heads so that when they saw a right triangle or a cylinder they didn’t have to think twice to get to the solution.

But what does she think about all of this? If she enters as a freshman, how long will it take her to graduate? Will the U take all of her AA credits and give her junior status once she’s there? Will the U she is looking at give her merit aid for an ACT score of XX? If she wants to study there, and improving her ACT score to XX will be too difficult, then she may as well go the transfer route. She might prefer to quit all the exam prep so that she can do other things with that time.