<p><<can you=“” tell=“” us=“” what=“” that=“” might=“” entail?=“”>> </can></p>
<p>Incoming freshman come to Centre in June for testing (math, foreign language, writing, I think). Anyway, there are 2 freshman english classes, one is a writing intensive for those who need the extra work, the other is not although it IS a humanities class on greek philosophy and there is a great deal of writing involved. All of her classes place a heavy emphasis on writing and in one religion class getting a B on her paper was cause for celebration. </p>
<p><<you commented=“” in=“” a=“” pm=“” that=“” a’s=“” were=“” elusive.=“” does=“” ,in=“” your=“” opinion,=“” have=“” any=“” connection=“” to=“” this=“” writing=“” element=“” of=“” centre’s?=“”>> </you></p>
<p>To a certain extent. In some cases it’s because the professors expect them to take responsibility for their own learning and many incoming have no idea that studying includes stuff that wasn’t covered in class. In one spanish class the teacher made the assignments and expected them to learn on their own in a sense. Hard to do with a foreign language but it took listening to tapes in the library and practicing. The spanish classes were both 4 credits (included a lab) and were very difficult. DD doesn’t like languages and took Spanish I & II back to back semesters to get them out of the way. Many incoming do not “pass” their foreign language placement tests unless they’ve had 4 years or more of the language. Our school only offers I & II so it wasn’t really an option for her. She really did need to take the first level class.</p>
<p><<if you=“” are=“” comfortable=“” elaborating=“” on=“” how=“” they=“” “helped”=“” ,=“” it=“” might=“” help=“” some=“” of=“” us=“” get=“” a=“” grip=“” we=“” be=“” able=“” to=“” afford=“” centre.=“”>> </if></p>
<p>Centre awarded her a Fellowship worth $10k per year, matched the $4000 Tennessee Hope scholarship and arranged for student loans for $2600 more. I ended up being on the hook for $12k a year but used AMS (a tuition payment service) so it broke my payments into monthly installments (12). I figured that is what a public university would have cost (on the high end) in Tennessee. We’re sweating the payments with the attitude that it’s only 4 years (3 years now–yay!). Federal loans (unsubsidized) only allow a student to borrow $2600 each of the first 2 years, then it’s raised to $5500 for the last 2 years. DD will increase her loan for the last 2 years to cover any tuition increases. If we can swing this then she will only have about $12k in loans for undergrad and we’ll have NONE. She is already prepared for the reality that grad school is HER problem not ours as our youngest will graduate HS in 2010. This was a real stretch for our family but everyone has a different story. <strong>Here’s a hint, if the school comes back at less than you’d hoped, go back to the recruiter and ask for more</strong>. When DD got her FA package it was about $2k less than we’d hoped for. We called admissions, talked to the recruiter for our area and ended up with an extra thousand. Not a big deal but every little bit helps.</p>
<p><<it’s interesting=“” to=“” me=“” that=“” y’all=“” would=“” have=“” considered=“” hendrix,also.=“” what=“” about=“” financially?=“” was=“” hendrix=“” competitive?=“”>></it’s></p>
<p>Hendrix was less expensive (full price) than Centre and gave her a scholarship that would have brought our cost in at about $8k I think. CBU gave her 1/2 tuition ($8k) also and was being considered for the other half in athletics.</p>