CollegeZap! Blog
Tips, tricks and insider secrets for college students and parents from veteran college administrator and faculty member, Dr. Joe Fischer. Sometimes funny, sometimes irreverant . . . always useful.
It is critical that college students buy their text books immediately. To delay is to put your academic success at risk. Text books are an essential part of each college course. College and university faculty rely heavily on course text books to teach their courses. Quizzes, tests, papers, presentations - are always heavily dependent on material from the course text books.
I've mentioned in an earlier blog post that this particular year is experiencing an HUGE increase in college and university enrollments nationwide. This means that more college students are trying to register for the same number of courses, meaning that more students will be placed on waiting lists for college courses. One fall-out of this situation is that college course text books are going to sell-out at the college bookstore very quickly. Some students on course waiting lists purchase text books, hoping that they will get in the class. If they don't, they'll sell the text books back to the bookstore at the text book buy-back period, knowing that they will lose money. But their motivation was to get into the class and be successful if at all possible.
OK mom and dad - here is the answer to the perineal question, does my son/daughter need their car when they go to college. The answer is (drum-roll)....... "it depends". Sorry, but it's true (I know that college students are reading this answer with a sigh of relief - there is still a chance that they can take their car to campus),
Here is the reality about cars on a college or university campus:
If you are a college student depending on financial aid AND you completed the FAFSA late (late is probably from this past July and later), then it is very likely that IF you are eligible for federal, state and institutional financial aid, the aid that is dependent on the processing of your FAFSA will NOT be available at the beginning of the fall term. Many of you who started college this fall term in August already know this.
Hi everyone. It's fall term. Some private colleges and universities have already started classes. State and public 4 year colleges and community colleges will start classes in about two weeks. As college students and parents are rushing to get registered, enrolled, move into residence halls, buy books, etc., I am seeing the same mistakes being made that I've seen for the past many years. So, in a small way, let me help make the world a better place (tongue in cheek) by listing some of the most common Fall-Term-Mistakes college students and parents make, and how you can avoid them. At least, these are the mistakes I have been helping college students and parents with during this past week - so they are fresh in my mind.