With soaring college tuition and expenses, financial aid has become a necessity for many students. Along with the stress of meeting the costs, there also is a maze of confusion around obtaining financial assistance. Here are seven myths dissected to help you better negotiate a difficult problem. Myth #1: The confusion of forms to complete…
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The SAT is that scary test that students generally take later in high school to get into college and hopefully get some scholarship money. The good news is that this test is “standardized,” which means that when writing the test questions, the test makers follow the same patterns, profiles, and standards by writing similar questions…
Gone are the days when home schooled students wondered if they would be able to go to college. In 2003 the Texas legislature passed HB 944, a law that requires state-supported institutions to accept home school graduates without discrimination and on the same basis that their public school counterparts are accepted. (See page C-1, 2.)…
When our first child entered high school, I began to panic . . . now I would have to be very diligent about keeping records; now I would need to make sure every class counted. What if I had not taught him everything he would need to know before he went out into that great…
Most home school moms I know are used to being in control of their children’s lives. Think of this: we are not like others who send their children off to school and are not really aware of what is happening in our child’s experience for several hours five days a week. In those early days…
