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Originally Posted by MyPann  I would advise not to just look at the college, but also to look at the area surrounding the college. My college is excellent, has very good programs especially for engineering students, but it is in a dieing city. There is no jobs for the students and that makes it very hard for them to support themselves. Also look into the completion rate, ours is less than 48% which is very scary but I do believe that that may have to do a bit with our dieing city and people dropping out to go elsewhere, if I wasn't from here I would have gone elsewhere sooner just because of how bad the city is. Also talk to the students in the field he desires to go into to get their feel about the program and the instructors in it. Please tell him good luck in his decision and also to get involved in the school life I didn't and I regret it, this is my third year and I'm so jealous of everything I missed out on and now my course load is too heavy to do anything really! Schools offer so many things to participate in like cookouts, and there are always so many freshman activities to get the students involved so don't miss out! Sorry for being so long winded  just wanted to put that all out there! |
Thank you! Great advice! I will have him read your post...as his mom I keep telling him to enjoy every single event offered at first, but your post will help with my credibility!
