Not in the state schools down here - they don't stand
a chance of being accepted. Where you see the serious
remedial stuff is at the community college level,
mainly because in Florida, if you graduate from a
community college with a 3.0 or better, four year
state schools have to accept you.
Our state schools are cheap as wine - my current
undergraduate semester fees are around $1200 for a
full load of 11 hours. Add to that $300 for books (I
don't have any classroom classes this semester as I am
interning) and you can go to school as a commuter
student for about $1500 a semester.
What a deal.
We also have something called "Bright Futures"
scholarships that allow resident high school students
who maintain a 3.5 GPA or better to get a free ride to
any state school. You have to pay for a portion of
your books and all of your housing if you live on
campus, but other than that it's a freebie.
We told the youngest that if he got a Bright Futures
scholarship we would buy him a car for college. A
heck of a deal for us!
Dan
--- LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you wrote about med and law schools :<<don't
> believe, however,
> that they will accept un-educated pupils. Quite
> probably because they don't need to.>>
>
> I've heard a very high % of new students entering
> college must take remedial
> classes in English and math to do the most basic of
> things before moving to
> college level classes. Seems like the % was between
> 50% and 80% -- can;t
> recall. This after many colleges have reduced
> their standards for various
> reasons over the years.
>
> The govt doesn't have a good record for many of the
> things they do - govt
> run education is another of the things they do
> poorly, IMO.
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