Posts from — August 2009

In our last post, we discussed students who may need to take longer than the traditional four years to complete their college degree.  In this post, we look at students who choose to accelerate their college experience to finish early.

 In addition to those students who may take longer than the traditional four years to complete their degree, there are a growing number of students who may decide to attempt to complete their college education in less than four years.  Students who finish in three or three and a half years may save on tuition fees.  They have the opportunity to get started working in their chosen field earlier.  However, these students may also need to give up some of the traditional college experiences in order to be able to complete their degree early.

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Your student has graduated from high school and is headed off to college, and you are picturing that next commencement ceremony in another four years.  Or perhaps your student has been in college for a year or two and you see that commencement just around the corner.  When your student walks across that stage it will be a big moment, and you are anxious for the celebration – and the last tuition bill.

 But there is a possibility that your student’s college commencement may not be exactly four years after high school graduation. 

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As a college parent, you are trying to learn many things about the world of college, trying to help your student make a successful transition – either to the first year of college or to a subsequent year of college or even a new college, trying to determine how you can be most helpful as part of the college equation, and trying to remember that this is a time of transition for you as well.  There seems to be so much to try to take in and to juggle.

As we begin this busy month just before your college student heads off to school, we’ve done a roundup of posts that may be particularly helpful for the month to come.  These posts cover topics that may be most applicable to the preparation for leave-taking and the transition to school.  Take some time to read and review these posts and you will be well-armed for the month ahead.

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