College suggestions for Baitboy

[DZ]

When my daughter was planning on her college education we picked up this book: Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

http://www.amazon.com/Colleges-That-.../dp/0143122304

We visited a few schools from the book and are glad we did.

Pick it up and have parents and son read it.

Good luck to him in pursuing his passion.

DZ

[beamie]

A little insite of Mass Maritime.

- It is allot different now than when I graduated 24 years ago. Back then only 2 majors. Now about 6 or 7.

- If you go to MMA with the intention of taking on of those 2 original majors.....deck or engine....know what your getting into. I still go to sea 24 years later. Is the money good just out of school.....its ok, every ship contract is a bit different but make no mistake about it the money in the 70's comparably was way more back then. Be prepared to have a failing marriage or 2 or 3. Be prepared to miss out on allot of holidays and peak fishing seasons every other year. Be prepared to have challenges raising kids when you only see them 6 months a year at the most.

- Now the plus side is when your not on a ship well you can fish allot.

It is all a catch 22.

If I could do it all over again would I..............I'd have to think about that.

[jredfly]

This is such great info - Thanks!!!

[fishbones]

There's a group of colleges out in California called the Claremont Colleges. There are 5 of them and they are often called the Ivy League of the west coast. They aren't really well known around here, but they are excellent schools. My sister was 2nd in her HS graduating class and was looking for a really good liberal arts school. She ended up deciding to go to Pomona College right outside of L.A. and loved it. It's a small school with a very low faculty to student ratio. The campus is nice and it's warm year yound. My sister didn't qualify for financial aid but she got money to go there because they were looking to get diversity and didn't have many students from the northeast.

The other schools in that group are Havey Mudd, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna and Scripps.

Depending on if he wants to be far from home or not, it may be worth checking out.

http://www.claremont.edu/

[blondterror]

One of my son's best friends also went to Pomona and he is now in Med school at Tufts. He wanted to go to Stanford but ended up loving Pomona and the smaller classes. It is a fantastic school.

[JackK]

Whatever school, just make sure tuition is within your means.

Nothing worse than graduating completely full of debt. I didn't understand the repercussions at 18. I would have been paying off student loans till my mid-40's if there hadn't been a death in the family.

While I'm appreciative of my education and the times I had, if I could do it all over again, I'd probably go to a school in state... Or at the very least take core curriculum classes at a community college to cut down on the cost.

Any AP credits?

[jredfly]

Originally Posted by JackK

Whatever school, just make sure tuition is within your means.

Nothing worse than graduating completely full of debt. I didn't understand the repercussions at 18. I would have been paying off student loans till my mid-40's if there hadn't been a death in the family.

While I'm appreciative of my education and the times I had, if I could do it all over again, I'd probably go to a school in state... Or at the very least take core curriculum classes at a community college to cut down on the cost.

Any AP credits?

He took AP World History and AP US History where he got 5 out of 5 on both exams. He is now working on 3 more for his senior year - Litrature, European History, and Statistics,