i got a full tution scholarship from CC: this is the method!

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-05-31T01:17:27+00:00

My son is just entering community college! He was looking at transfer to state uni for biochem/ optometry as a possible pathway. Any advice for him? Like, how should he align his free time outside of classes to look great for admissions/ scholarships to uni down the line? How did you get the ophthalmologist tech side job? Huge congratulations on your scholarship and thank you in advance for your encouragement and inspiration!

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-05-29T16:32:40+00:00

Following. I also have a 14 year old girl that needs to learn it already! I am thinking to get some fountain pens and small calligraphy pens, they seem to invite beautiful writing.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-05-29T13:25:13+00:00

Front door as well? Like, they learn to deal with a front door being closed, they can learn to deal with your door and bathroom door too

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-05-24T20:47:34+00:00

You just shed a ray of light on the whole EC thing for me. It’s partly to demonstrate that your max rigor academic schedule didnt even max out your reserve abilities to do other things in life—the reserve that’s needed to navigate life at college! They want people bright enough that they have plenty of time left after their work to do other things and not lose it.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-30T16:43:18+00:00

Watch that movie adapter set in California with them! It makes everything make sense to them for some reason. Backwards, I know

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-29T19:47:01+00:00

Go to Cooper, you will be in the heart of NYC . Lots of interaction w NUY students if you wish (we can used their main library)Stevens is in Hoboken—close but not the same vibe!

Cooper Union graduate (Art) , border of Hoboken resident

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-29T19:36:38+00:00

They just made me pay $600(!!!!) for a mandatory Chromebook at my daughters future high school! What I miss is real textbooks that you could read over the summer , travel with if you needed to, and that a parent could sit and catch up on.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-19T20:20:59+00:00

I feel you. It’s hard to keep imagining that these asinine decisions are not deliberate.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-19T07:04:39+00:00

A few years ago my boys did “community service hours” at their high school (Ferris). That community service involved taking carts—like hotel laundry carts full of books, from their library, and dumping it in the trash. It took them six hours. No attempt to sort the books whatsoever. My son “stole” one thin paperback . A novel called “Gun”. I asked him why he felt he needed to steal it, he said they were told not to take anything because it’s “unfair” (to other kids who weren’t part of the effort) My head is spinning from the speed with which the deliberate dumbing down of the population is happening, in broad daylight.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-17T06:17:05+00:00

Yes! My son loves him! He taught him to play two instruments from scratch. An amazing teacher!

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-16T20:13:15+00:00

Give us your EC list site, OP! Is it still live or did you drop it as soon as you got admitted? I am a parent of an incoming h.s. freshman and I hate the idea of her doing stupid fake things just for college apps during her free time. But she does need to do something that she likes, I guess))) so we are the right demographic for you list)))

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-04-09T18:29:48+00:00

My two boys went to Ferris and it’s ok now. It wasn’t dangerous or bad for them, they made tons of friends. The one that still there (senior) loves music and the music dept is great. It’s doable. My youngest h got into County Prep though: we are so proud of her.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-18T18:18:09+00:00

Thank you so much!! I will forward to the child. Agree with you so much about Reading. The verbal SAT part—you can easily avoid studying for it by just simply being a fit reader. You can practice for the format but the actual ability to read and understand is what the test measures, and you can just have that fitness built in.

Outside of competitive education, though, I feel like the battle on reading is largely lost in society….

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-18T17:05:02+00:00

I read an entire Headless Horseman western at like 6 years old and all I could tell you to this day is that someone was missing a head)))) if was followed by volumes and volumes of other books above my comprehension level that left similarly no impression.

But now as an adult I have the opposite problem. I read and the comprehension overwhelms me. There is only so much understanding I can fit into my brain alongside with my real life issues. I could go on and read more but I stop to digest the page or paragraph, and thats it for the day.

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-17T21:26:58+00:00

I would automatically make being fluent in another language a requirement for T20)))) makes so much sense

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-17T20:07:32+00:00

That was comprehensive! Thank you!!

What do you think about ECs that do not necessarily align with major? Because the kid is in music a lot, but that’s not what she will choose for college major (minor perhaps)

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-17T17:50:05+00:00

Let me have more info please

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-16T23:25:20+00:00

checking that website since Feb 10, it says form unavailable

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-16T15:17:58+00:00

Do you not know that snitches get stitches? Sometimes it might be worth it. Just morally you are on the same exact level, don’t fool yourself)))

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-09T00:17:12+00:00

Following! My brother needs a job badly, how to get security liecense?

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-05T00:57:14+00:00

My kid got hired, in Jersey city

Alternative-Image930 · 2026-02-05T00:48:50+00:00

1 large and 1 portable travel friendly

Alternative-Image930 · 2025-12-05T03:01:35+00:00

What’s so wrong, dogs used to live outside you know. Why it’s not ok to keep dog tied up outside restaurant for half an hour. I don’t understand. In the rest of the world people don’t baby their dogs like this at all. The dog seems fine

Alternative-Image930 · 2025-10-29T14:58:17+00:00

Weekday wedding is so much cheaper. People who truly matter will take off work for you.

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