Sunday, October 12, 2008
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CHOOSING AMONG MULTIPLE COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES
For those of you who are parents of future college students, the questions on your mind for the past few months, or years, have probably been three-fold:
- Where will my child be accepted to college?
- Will my child be ready to succeed in college?; and
- Will I be able to help my child to pay for college?
Those are important questions, ones that we will continue to help you to wrestle with in the future, especially if you are the parent of younger children.
But each year, as March draws to a close - and college acceptance season soon kicks into full gear - parents of future college students, particularly those of you who are parents of high school seniors, need to focus like a laser on one question only: what college acceptance offer is the best one for my son or daughter?
This is the one and only time of the year when the table turns on college admissions and you, not the schools, are in the driver's seat. Here's why:
Beginning in late March every year, college acceptance letters will begin to arrive in mailboxes (and increasingly, in e-mail in-boxes) across America.
In most households, all your child's hard work in studying in high school, and in choosing the right schools to apply to for college, will pay off. He or she will most likely receive several fat packets of information from various institutions of higher education, welcoming him or her as a prospective new student and asking you for a deposit by no later than May 1.
As those of you who are parents of current college students can appreciate, this decision of "where to go" is an extremely important one. In fact, some of your own college-aged children might even be looking to transfer and waiting for one or more acceptance letters themselves.
At College Parents of America, we call the month of April "crunch time," and our goal is to help you, as parents, help your children to solve the college acceptance dilemma. The dilemma is a good one to have. Assuming multiple college acceptances, the question then becomes for your child - ideally with consensus support from you - what college offer shall I accept?
There are a number of factors to consider in this decision, of course, and like in all things related to the college-going and college-readying experiences, we ascribe to the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared."
That's why we've created the 19-page booklet called Crunchtime: Solving the College Acceptance Dilemma.
This booklet walks families through the seven key factors in a college decision and it is available free-of-charge to those of you who are members of College Parents of America. For those of you who are not yet members, we provide you with two options:
- Order Crunchtime now for the low price of $5; or
- Join College Parents of America for the special price of $59, available to you as a reader of this column for a discount of 25 percent off the retail price of $79 available on our Web site, www.collegeparents.org. Then, not only will you be able to access the booklet, but you will be also be free to utilize all of our many member benefits, including useful information, discounted products and services from trusted partners, and aggressive advocacy on all important, parent-related college issues, especially those affecting the cost of college and your ability to meet that cost.
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