The College Freshman Moving Day
Sunday Dish is Alleyoop’s weekly collection of college prep news headlines. Discuss these topics with your teen over your own Sunday dish.
Is your child heading off to college? Or planning to next year? Here you’ll find news and advice to help your child – and you – get ready for the big transition.
This Week’s Top Five Headlines on College Prep and Career Readiness
1. College Bound: Moving Day Nears for this Year’s Freshman Class (postcrescent.com)
Will your child be sharing a room for the first time? Will he or she be able to wake up for classes without you there? Clueless on what to bring to the dorm? Student life officials at various colleges share tips to help incoming freshman prepare for tougher classes, meeting new people and an entirely new environment.
2. Roommates Who Click (The New York Times)
If your student is one of the thousands and thousands leaving home for college, he or she can take the edge off of that first day in the dorms with a new service. URoomSurf helps students find roommates that will be the perfect match for them. Even Facebook can’t provide that kind of networking.
3. The Reality Show: N.Y.U. (The New York Times)
In this video clip, current N.Y.U. students offer incoming N.Y.U. students tips on how to survive college life in the big city. Even if your child has no interest or plan to go to N.Y.U., any new college freshman could relate to many of the anxiety-inducing, independent-feeling and all-too-true stories shared.
4. For-Profit Schools Put in Detention (The Wall Street Journal)
For-profit schools are in the dog house. For years now many of them have relied on taxpayer-guaranteed loans to fund overpriced degrees (e.g. $47,000 2-year degree for a $30,000 salary upon graduation). Now new government regulations could lead to major tuition cuts.
5. ACT: High School Students Still Not Ready for College (SkippingDinner.com)
In case you missed it, ACT released its annual Condition of College and Career Readiness report. Check out the results.