Off to College!

Georgina Gooden and Jennifer FordMid-Del Schools

Advanced Learning

Introduction to the top ten universities in the United States of America

Let your students view the virtual tours for the top ten colleges. Each tour varies from 15 minutes to less than 5 minutes. You may view three colleges each day. Then let your students complete the form each day. The information ask location, cost of tuition, and the students will evaluate their interest in that specific college by writing H=high interest, M=medium interest, L=low interest.

OK College Start

https://secure.okcollegestart.org/Financial_Aid_Planning Financial_Aid_101/_default.aspx

- Research careers, high school planning, college planning, and financial aid.

Ten Elite Schools Where Middle-Class Kids

Don't Pay Tuition

Students lucky enough to be accepted to some of the most competitive schools in the country can save hundreds of thousands of dollars on tuition

Akane OtaniApril 1, 2015 — 2:02 PM CDThttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-01/ten-elite-schools-where-middle-class-kids-don-t-pay-tuition In a trend that's bound to come as a relief to parents of high school seniors facing sticker prices that approach

$63,000 a year, a growing number of Ivy League and elite colleges are making college more affordable for middle-class families.

Stanford University announced last week that, starting this fall, students whose families make less than $125,000 a year will not pay any tuition. Previously, the school had set the bar at $100,000. With the move, Stanford has made it possible for more middle-class students to get a degree for what they'd spend in tuition at an in-state, public university (students with a family income above $65,000 a year still have to cover room and board). That makes an admissions offer that's already among the most coveted in the country even more attractive.

Stanford is not the first elite school to slash tuition for middle-class and upper-middle-class students. (For reference, we're going by the Pew Research Center's definition, which calls a family of three in the U.S. middle class if they made between $40,667 and $122,000 in 2013.) While the wealthiest schools have long covered nearly all costs for their poorest students, Harvard since 2004 has steadily broadened the group of students to whom it gives financial aid, putting pressure on its peers to match its generous discounts. The aid programs have helped absorb some of the sticker shock from continuously rising tuition. Take a look at the top schools that students from a range of middle-class families can attend, tuition-free.

1. PrincetonTuition for 2015-16: $43,450Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 6.99 percentPolicy: Families making less than $54,000 a year don't pay tuition, room, or board, and families making less than $120,000 a year

don't pay tuition. 2. BrownTuition for 2015-16: $48,272Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 8.5 percentPolicy: Families making less than $60,000 don't pay tuition, room, or board. 3. CornellTuition for 2015-16: $48,880 Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 14.9 percentPolicy: Families making less than $60,000 don't pay tuition, room, or board. 4. ColumbiaTuition for 2014-15: $51,108Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 6.1 percentPolicy: Families making less than $60,000 don't pay tuition, room, or board. 5. DukeTuition for 2015-16: $47,650Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 11.3 percentPolicy: Families making less than $60,000 don't pay tuition, room, or board.

6. HarvardTuition for 2015-16: $45,278Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 5.3 percentPolicy: Families making less than $65,000 a year don't pay tuition, room, or board. 7. YaleTuition for 2015-16: $47,600Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 6.5 percentPolicy: Families making less than $65,000 a year don't pay tuition, room, or board. 8. StanfordTuition for 2015-16: $45,729Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 5.05 percentPolicy: Families making less than $65,000 a year don't pay tuition, room, or board, and families making between $65,000 and

$125,000 a year don't pay tuition. 9. MITTuition for 2015-16: $46,704 (includes mandatory fees)Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 8 percentPolicy: Families making less than $75,000 a year don't pay tuition. 10. DartmouthTuition for 2015-16: $48,120Acceptance rate for the Class of 2019: 10.3 percentPolicy: Families making less than $100,000 don't pay tuition.

Letter Writing

• Google – Writing a business letter– Pictures, examples, images– http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/format.pdf– http://www.ware.k12.ga.us/curriculum/resources/2/2nd%20grade%2

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Addressing an Envelope

• Google – Addressing an Envelope – Pictures, examples, images– http://www.ware.k12.ga.us/curriculum/resources/2/2nd%20grade%2

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Final thoughts…

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