Today’s job market requires higher education, plain and simple. Students have to be ready for college, and colleges are watching their educational progress. In this age of instant information, colleges can accept or decline prospective students on a whim. So keep your high school student on the road to academic success by encouraging them to keep up their studies all the way to the end. A pitfall to avoid is the “senior slump.” Seniors tend to take it easy their senior year, especially when they’ve already been accepted to a college. An old tradition was to waste away that last semester in physical education and other electives, but those days are gone. Now, colleges want students who work hard all the way to graduation. |