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...opportunity in which to cram all the values of good family life." So far, she seems to be succeeding; all her kids who are in school are honors students. One negative of adopting a teen, says Fantroy, is the expense--car insurance, clothing, social activities. Another issue is college tuition; adopted teens may have less access to financial aid than those in foster care. And newly minted parents, Fantroy points out, have not had time to save for college...
...Guzman found himself in an educational no-man's-land. A bright, industrious teen who came to Miami from Honduras nine years ago, he scored well enough on his SAT that he was being recruited by Stanford University. But despite the tuition aid he could have received, Guzman felt that he and his family weren't ready for the heavy financial burden of four years at a prestigious college. And despite his good grades, Guzman was worried that he wasn't ready academically either...
...Marines, Guzman heard that Miami Dade College, one of the largest community colleges in the U.S., had created an honors college offering an advanced, university-level core curriculum that would allow him to fine-tune his skills and do it without having to pay Stanford's $29,847 tuition. Now in his second and final year at Miami Dade, Guzman, 19, is as confident as a Connecticut preppy about tackling Stanford or an Ivy League college next year. "If I had gone to Stanford, I might be failing," he says. "But now I won't be wondering...
...letter to Summers last January, eleven alumni from the Class of 1969 criticized the compensation of Harvard’s fund managers and then called upon the University to use the resources of its $22.6 billion endowment to freeze tuition for two years...
...letter called recent tuition increases—which have outpaced inflation—“needlessly and unfairly burdensome to current students at the College—and harmful to their generation as a whole...