Consider taking a year off
by admin on Sep.03, 2009, under Uncategorized
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Mar 5, 2009 by Orson Scott Card
It’s the time of year when parents of high school seniors are frantically trying to influence — or simply enable — their soon- to-be graduate’s choice of college.
Do you apply to three schools? Five? A dozen? That’s a cost of hundreds of dollars right there! Are the child’s grades good enough? Does he need to re-take the SAT to try for a higher score? Can she get a job to help meet expenses? Does the family qualify for financial aid? Is there some scholarship, somewhere, that can defray expenses?
But for Mormon parents, the search can be even more complicated. What about getting their child into BYU? The church’s flagship school turns away a substantial number of applicants every year — and there are probably hundreds or thousands more who don’t bother to apply to BYU because they know that on various grounds they will not qualify.
Read the full column on MormonTimes.com
