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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 710832" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Please be aware that many 4 year universities have great supports for students with challenges IF they ask for them. Also, DO NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT go to a for profit university EVER. They will promise you loans and jobs and make it sound like you are guaranteed a great job after you get your degree. They are a scam. The degree you get from these schools is not worth the paper it is printed on. I don't mean to offend anyone here, but they have been investigated by Congress and many reputable groups and it is shown that you can pretty much get a job working fast food with a job from one of these for profit colleges. Plus you will be left with debt that will be greater than if you went to a private 4 year university. Yes, you could go to ANY state university and get a useful degree for half of these diploma mill colleges and you could actually get a job.</p><p></p><p>So for your son, you can have him go to a university and have an IEP if there is a university near you. State run universities have IEPs and services to help students with problems like your son has. My mom was a professor and worked with retention studies for years (figuring out how to keep kids from dropping out of college) and I learned a lot listening to her talk over the dinner table. You have to go and ask the advisors and the dean's office and even at the health center for help when it is needed, but there is help available. </p><p></p><p>I do agree that life in the dorm might not be the right thing at first. Unless he is very high functioning it might not be a good thing. Dorm life isn't for everyone, personally I could never see what it was supposed to teach you about life in the 'real world'. Unless the real world consisted of living with a bunch of idiots who peed on the carpet every weekend. I lived in a coed dorm and on one floor the guys would get drunk and pee all over the carpet and walls and the bathroom from the ceiling down. It was truly the most disgusting thing ever. So what dorm life and real life had in common, I have no idea. But my parents had this idea that they should have made my son go live in a dorm when he started college. Until I reminded them of this. And of my brother's experience in the dorm. All he did was drink and gamble. Literally. He got really good at both. Oh, he played pool too. Flunked out of college, but he was good at those 3 things. Pool, drinking and gambling. </p><p></p><p>My mother stopped making noises about sending Wiz off to live in a dorm. At least to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 710832, member: 1233"] Please be aware that many 4 year universities have great supports for students with challenges IF they ask for them. Also, DO NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT go to a for profit university EVER. They will promise you loans and jobs and make it sound like you are guaranteed a great job after you get your degree. They are a scam. The degree you get from these schools is not worth the paper it is printed on. I don't mean to offend anyone here, but they have been investigated by Congress and many reputable groups and it is shown that you can pretty much get a job working fast food with a job from one of these for profit colleges. Plus you will be left with debt that will be greater than if you went to a private 4 year university. Yes, you could go to ANY state university and get a useful degree for half of these diploma mill colleges and you could actually get a job. So for your son, you can have him go to a university and have an IEP if there is a university near you. State run universities have IEPs and services to help students with problems like your son has. My mom was a professor and worked with retention studies for years (figuring out how to keep kids from dropping out of college) and I learned a lot listening to her talk over the dinner table. You have to go and ask the advisors and the dean's office and even at the health center for help when it is needed, but there is help available. I do agree that life in the dorm might not be the right thing at first. Unless he is very high functioning it might not be a good thing. Dorm life isn't for everyone, personally I could never see what it was supposed to teach you about life in the 'real world'. Unless the real world consisted of living with a bunch of idiots who peed on the carpet every weekend. I lived in a coed dorm and on one floor the guys would get drunk and pee all over the carpet and walls and the bathroom from the ceiling down. It was truly the most disgusting thing ever. So what dorm life and real life had in common, I have no idea. But my parents had this idea that they should have made my son go live in a dorm when he started college. Until I reminded them of this. And of my brother's experience in the dorm. All he did was drink and gamble. Literally. He got really good at both. Oh, he played pool too. Flunked out of college, but he was good at those 3 things. Pool, drinking and gambling. My mother stopped making noises about sending Wiz off to live in a dorm. At least to me. [/QUOTE]
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