My apologies to anyone who tried to access my event on Facebook yesterday. The short story is, the stream went to the wrong place and when you’re in the middle of a live interview there isn’t much you can do to change that! The recording is available here so you can watch it at your convenience. (The part where I start looking all over the place is when I realized the stream wasn’t showing up where it was supposed to!!) If you have questions after watching it, please either submit them to me via the Comments here, or I will have Julia back for another edition of this in a few weeks once I get all the technical kinks ironed out.
Next Tuesday, May 12, I’ll be talking with Jennifer Warren, an AP Spanish teacher at Evergreen High School, about the ins and outs of AP and IB classes. Jennifer and I both have 19-year-old twins who have had a range of experiences and outcomes with AP and IB, so her perspective is both as a teacher and a parent of high school students. The best way to access these events (I think) is to follow my Facebook page as that is where the event seems to have ended up streaming.
Here are some of the websites we mentioned:
Thanks for your patience as I figure this out! Everyone is a student of something!
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It was a very informative event!!!
Thanks for sending the recording. Even after reading a tremendous amount on the topic of college finance, I always learn something new from your blog post! You mentioned public colleges that provide large merit aid depending on meeting certain categories, test scores, etc. Where could I find those? Thanks again!
They’re all different, both in terms of what they offer and to whom, but a good way to get started is just to look at schools in geographic areas you might be interested in. My son, for example, wanted to not be in Oregon (where we live) but did want to stay on the west coast, and wanted a school with a big sports program. So those criteria narrowed his search quite a bit. He found that the Arizona schools (UofA and ASU) both had scholarships for which he was eligible and that were granted automatically without additional applications. Depending on where you live, there are often regional tuition exchanges among public schools where tuition is capped at a multiple of in-state tuition for students coming from neighboring states. Here on the west coast, we have WUEWUE, through which students from western states pay a maximum of 150% of in-state tuition, although it tends to be smaller schools participating, not flagship universities. And most areas of the country have something like that. Out here, the larger schools (Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Arizona State, etc) have mostly transitioned from WUE to merit aid and often have specific awards for students from specific areas. One thing to note: most of these (but not all) are awarded based on UNWEIGHTED GPA, so if this is a path you want to go down, make sure that your student is getting as good of grades in AP/IB classes as he/she would in a non-weighted class!!
Thank you. We’re in Connecticut and are part of a regional tuition ‘break’ program. It’s seems mostly base on programs schools want to fill. But we will focus on where she wants to be-caveat that it can’t be more than one hour and a half away from me!