Spin-off - AP vs Dual Enrollment

[cabanafrau]

Yes, ND is all about showing the love...and class rank Being female will help.

Has she looked at any schools in Montana? I have a few friends with kids that are studying environmental science at Mizzoula (which ever Montana state school that is) and love it out there. Lewis and Clark in Portland also has a good program. Starting to get farther from home but worth looking into. U of Alabama has a pretty strong marine biology program too and they like high state/out of state students. The whole southern Sorority thing there might not be to her liking though. For good safety, safety school, Mount Mercy in Iowa should get a look. They have a very strong field biology department.

"The whole southern sorority/fraternity thing" should be on the radar of every potential college applicant and parent considering schools they may not realize are incredibly entrenched in the Greek system and exactly what that means to potential student life there. A friend's daughter is learning this lesson the hard way about a very well-respected, prominent southern instutition that she grew up visiting and dreaming of attending since she was ten years old. She was very familiar with this school, very familiar, yet this significant factor of campus life escaped her until her second semester. It's been quite the challenge she never saw coming. You are nothing socially unless you belong to the right sorority/fraternity there.

DD's roommate last year was a sorority girl and visited a sister chapter at a Florida school on winter break. She's an INCREDIBLY wealthy(travels with bodyguards back home.), very well educated and well traveled cosmopolitan international student. She came back from break and told my daughter it's a whole different world in the sorority down there -- and she probably wouldn't get accepted to the chapter there.

I rarely see this discussed in college considerations & I wonder just how many kids get blindsided by this issue.

 

[Happy Snowman]

"The whole southern sorority/fraternity thing" should be on the radar of every potential college applicant and parent considering schools they may not realize are incredibly entrenched in the Greek system and exactly what that means to potential student life there. A friend's daughter is learning this lesson the hard way about a very well-respected, prominent southern instutition that she grew up visiting and dreaming of attending since she was ten years old. She was very familiar with this school, very familiar, yet this significant factor of campus life escaped her until her second semester. It's been quite the challenge she never saw coming. You are nothing socially unless you belong to the right sorority/fraternity there.

DD's roommate last year was a sorority girl and visited a sister chapter at a Florida school on winter break. She's an INCREDIBLY wealthy(travels with bodyguards back home.), very well educated and well traveled cosmopolitan international student. She came back from break and told my daughter it's a whole different world in the sorority down there -- and she probably wouldn't get accepted to the chapter there.

I rarely see this discussed in college considerations & I wonder just how many kids get blindsided by this issue.

That is VERY TRUE!!!


Oh, and I know for a fact, ND does NOT take DE for credit at all and AP is hit or miss depending on score and major, not at all for major courses...so either way, you are good there LOL.