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Trinity Western College
www.focusyear.com
by Michael Leppert
High school juniors or seniors who are looking for an excellent online academic opportunity for their Freshman year of college will find it with Trinity Western's FOCUS program for freshmen. The program is intended to allow freshmen to engage in distance learning their first year and then either transfer those first year credits to another university or attend TWU on campus the second year. The FOCUS program also appeals to those who missed the deadline to register in the regular semester or even working adults who wish to earn a degree.
For the high school student, this is an innovative plan which makes the transition from high school to college work a bit less stressful for the student, since it does not include relocating as well. By the time the student comes to Trinity Western's campus in beautiful British Columbia, (http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/RegionsCities/Vancouver
CoastandMountains.htm) s/he has already completed a year of college work and can make the full transition comfortably. (Read More...)
Factors in College Choice
By Donald Asher
[Author of Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different and special guest speaker at numerous home school conferences.]
Everything important in my family's life took place at the kitchen table. This table was the focal point of my intellectual and social life at the time. It never occurred to me that this was an odd family trait; I assumed everyone lived like us.
When I was in high school, everyone in my family was in school. My mother and stepfather were in college, and my brothers and I were all in high school. It was an exciting home. Every day we would all come home from class and tell what we had learned or, more accurately, argue about what we had learned. These arguments took place around that kitchen table.
The Richest Man in the World Has Some Advice for Us about College ...
(P.S. He didn’t take it himself)
by John Taylor Gatto
1. William Faulkner
On April 12, 2005, the August “New York Review of Books” pronounced William Faulkner “the most influential innovator in the annals of American fiction,” a man well-deserving of his Nobel Prize.
Faulkner, a high school dropout, was later able to enter the University of Mississippi on a special waiver for ex-WWI servicemen. After a single year there he dropped out with a ‘D’ in English. Between that time and his Nobel Prize he never returned to college.