School test scores… like ’em or not, they’re out for the 2009/2010 year

[bearishgurl]

[quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)

[flyer]

I have to say, I agree with both perspectives regarding API scores.

Our kids graduated from local schools with high API scores, and went on to Ivy League universities. They have friends–from less optimum circumstances–who were extremely focused and driven, and did equally as well.

I think the real concern for all young people will go far beyond API scores, and come in the form of concerns about viable employment, and the ability to create a decent lifestyle outside of their parent’s homes. That’s going to be the real challenge for them going forward.

[flyer]

I have to say, I agree with both perspectives regarding API scores.

Our kids graduated from local schools with high API scores, and went on to Ivy League universities. They have friends–from less optimum circumstances–who were extremely focused and driven, and did equally as well.

I think the real concern for all young people will go far beyond API scores, and come in the form of concerns about viable employment, and the ability to create a decent lifestyle outside of their parent’s homes. That’s going to be the real challenge for them going forward.

[flyer]

I have to say, I agree with both perspectives regarding API scores.

Our kids graduated from local schools with high API scores, and went on to Ivy League universities. They have friends–from less optimum circumstances–who were extremely focused and driven, and did equally as well.

I think the real concern for all young people will go far beyond API scores, and come in the form of concerns about viable employment, and the ability to create a decent lifestyle outside of their parent’s homes. That’s going to be the real challenge for them going forward.

[flyer]

I have to say, I agree with both perspectives regarding API scores.

Our kids graduated from local schools with high API scores, and went on to Ivy League universities. They have friends–from less optimum circumstances–who were extremely focused and driven, and did equally as well.

I think the real concern for all young people will go far beyond API scores, and come in the form of concerns about viable employment, and the ability to create a decent lifestyle outside of their parent’s homes. That’s going to be the real challenge for them going forward.

[flyer]

I have to say, I agree with both perspectives regarding API scores.

Our kids graduated from local schools with high API scores, and went on to Ivy League universities. They have friends–from less optimum circumstances–who were extremely focused and driven, and did equally as well.

I think the real concern for all young people will go far beyond API scores, and come in the form of concerns about viable employment, and the ability to create a decent lifestyle outside of their parent’s homes. That’s going to be the real challenge for them going forward.

[UCGal]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)[/quote]

b-school = business school, more specifically, an MBA (vs undergrad.) Enough of my friends have gone to “b-school” and changed careers, I thought the term was pretty widely known…

Here’s info on the apartments at UCSD.
Grad student apartments:
http://hdh.ucsd.edu/RAR/
typical is 600-700 sf 2br apts for 2 people. Not super spacious – but not bad.

Undergrad is more traditional dorms with meal plans
http://hds.ucsd.edu/housing/newundergrad.asp

I don’t know how long the wait list is/was for the grad student apartments… I just found out my friend was moving and starting night school this week – apparently the buildings are brand new, don’t even have occupancy yet – which probably effected the wait list (hard to be on a wait list if the building isn’t built yet.) He’s due to move in mid Sept.

[UCGal]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)[/quote]

b-school = business school, more specifically, an MBA (vs undergrad.) Enough of my friends have gone to “b-school” and changed careers, I thought the term was pretty widely known…

Here’s info on the apartments at UCSD.
Grad student apartments:
http://hdh.ucsd.edu/RAR/
typical is 600-700 sf 2br apts for 2 people. Not super spacious – but not bad.

Undergrad is more traditional dorms with meal plans
http://hds.ucsd.edu/housing/newundergrad.asp

I don’t know how long the wait list is/was for the grad student apartments… I just found out my friend was moving and starting night school this week – apparently the buildings are brand new, don’t even have occupancy yet – which probably effected the wait list (hard to be on a wait list if the building isn’t built yet.) He’s due to move in mid Sept.

[UCGal]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)[/quote]

b-school = business school, more specifically, an MBA (vs undergrad.) Enough of my friends have gone to “b-school” and changed careers, I thought the term was pretty widely known…

Here’s info on the apartments at UCSD.
Grad student apartments:
http://hdh.ucsd.edu/RAR/
typical is 600-700 sf 2br apts for 2 people. Not super spacious – but not bad.

Undergrad is more traditional dorms with meal plans
http://hds.ucsd.edu/housing/newundergrad.asp

I don’t know how long the wait list is/was for the grad student apartments… I just found out my friend was moving and starting night school this week – apparently the buildings are brand new, don’t even have occupancy yet – which probably effected the wait list (hard to be on a wait list if the building isn’t built yet.) He’s due to move in mid Sept.

[UCGal]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)[/quote]

b-school = business school, more specifically, an MBA (vs undergrad.) Enough of my friends have gone to “b-school” and changed careers, I thought the term was pretty widely known…

Here’s info on the apartments at UCSD.
Grad student apartments:
http://hdh.ucsd.edu/RAR/
typical is 600-700 sf 2br apts for 2 people. Not super spacious – but not bad.

Undergrad is more traditional dorms with meal plans
http://hds.ucsd.edu/housing/newundergrad.asp

I don’t know how long the wait list is/was for the grad student apartments… I just found out my friend was moving and starting night school this week – apparently the buildings are brand new, don’t even have occupancy yet – which probably effected the wait list (hard to be on a wait list if the building isn’t built yet.) He’s due to move in mid Sept.

[UCGal]

[quote=bearishgurl][quote=UCGal] . . . UCSD has more apartments for students now – a friend is starting b-school at night at UCSD – he’s getting his own room in an apartment, on campus, for $453/month. It’s cheaper than what he was paying a few blocks away in UTC for a room in a shared, non campus, apartment.

The meal plan at a dorm is over-rated… College should be about subsisting on ramen, mac-n-cheese, and quesadillas. LOL.[/quote]

UCGal, this is very interesting. A couple of questions. What is b-school? And these on-campus apartments you speak of – how many bdrms and baths do they have? Approx. sq. footage? And how many students per unit? And how long in advance do you have to apply for one of these (reasonable-rent) apts? (Many students from S. County do commute there for classes, but, due to traffic, this is borderline impractical.)

I know the apt-rents near UTC can be exorbitant, even for a unit sporting ’70’s or early ’80’s “decor,” no less!

I agree that at $350-$400 mo., a college “meal plan” is overrated and very expensive (and will probably cause weight gain, assuming your student is present for it 3x daily). My current college kid has an (underground) Trader Joes just blocks from their SF house where they are able to buy their staples in bulk and most of their fresh food :=)[/quote]

b-school = business school, more specifically, an MBA (vs undergrad.) Enough of my friends have gone to “b-school” and changed careers, I thought the term was pretty widely known…

Here’s info on the apartments at UCSD.
Grad student apartments:
http://hdh.ucsd.edu/RAR/
typical is 600-700 sf 2br apts for 2 people. Not super spacious – but not bad.

Undergrad is more traditional dorms with meal plans
http://hds.ucsd.edu/housing/newundergrad.asp

I don’t know how long the wait list is/was for the grad student apartments… I just found out my friend was moving and starting night school this week – apparently the buildings are brand new, don’t even have occupancy yet – which probably effected the wait list (hard to be on a wait list if the building isn’t built yet.) He’s due to move in mid Sept.

[Ricechex]

[quote=davelj][quote=AN]I missed out on that and I will never be able to experience that. Money can be made later but certain experiences in life only come once.[/quote]

I “missed out” on this experience as well. Thank the Fates. It looked horrible. A bunch of immature asshats living in cramped quarters… no thanks.[/quote]

The dorm “experience” is overrated. I went to OSU and lived in perhaps 500 sq feet with 3 other gals. The girl across the hallway attempted suicide, 1 girl was killed when she drove drunk into a semi on her way home for Christmas, and the other 2 roommates hated college and made it known. For one year it was a constant revolving door of roommates. I couldn’t wait to get out…but perhaps that is just cause it was in Ohio during the 80’s…..

[Ricechex]

[quote=davelj][quote=AN]I missed out on that and I will never be able to experience that. Money can be made later but certain experiences in life only come once.[/quote]

I “missed out” on this experience as well. Thank the Fates. It looked horrible. A bunch of immature asshats living in cramped quarters… no thanks.[/quote]

The dorm “experience” is overrated. I went to OSU and lived in perhaps 500 sq feet with 3 other gals. The girl across the hallway attempted suicide, 1 girl was killed when she drove drunk into a semi on her way home for Christmas, and the other 2 roommates hated college and made it known. For one year it was a constant revolving door of roommates. I couldn’t wait to get out…but perhaps that is just cause it was in Ohio during the 80’s…..

[Ricechex]

[quote=davelj][quote=AN]I missed out on that and I will never be able to experience that. Money can be made later but certain experiences in life only come once.[/quote]

I “missed out” on this experience as well. Thank the Fates. It looked horrible. A bunch of immature asshats living in cramped quarters… no thanks.[/quote]

The dorm “experience” is overrated. I went to OSU and lived in perhaps 500 sq feet with 3 other gals. The girl across the hallway attempted suicide, 1 girl was killed when she drove drunk into a semi on her way home for Christmas, and the other 2 roommates hated college and made it known. For one year it was a constant revolving door of roommates. I couldn’t wait to get out…but perhaps that is just cause it was in Ohio during the 80’s…..

[Ricechex]

[quote=davelj][quote=AN]I missed out on that and I will never be able to experience that. Money can be made later but certain experiences in life only come once.[/quote]

I “missed out” on this experience as well. Thank the Fates. It looked horrible. A bunch of immature asshats living in cramped quarters… no thanks.[/quote]

The dorm “experience” is overrated. I went to OSU and lived in perhaps 500 sq feet with 3 other gals. The girl across the hallway attempted suicide, 1 girl was killed when she drove drunk into a semi on her way home for Christmas, and the other 2 roommates hated college and made it known. For one year it was a constant revolving door of roommates. I couldn’t wait to get out…but perhaps that is just cause it was in Ohio during the 80’s…..

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