There is no "right" or "wrong" answer here. Some schools include high school credits earned in middle school in the high school GPA and some don't. A few schools near here used to consider 9th grade part of "lower" school and 10th starts "upper" school, and the high school GPA might start in 10th. This is a place for you to declare whatever you want to do. If your GPA calculation includes the 8th grade credits, include the 8th grade year in your answer. If you're only counting GPA from 9th, that's fine too. Just answer it however it fits your convention.

A couple of ways these sorts of scams sometimes work: 1. The scammer expected to poach their merchandise from your porch before you got it 2. The scammer expects you to "return" the merchandise to them (by contacting you later about a "mistaken" order and giving you an address other than the seller's) Best thing to do is call the seller, if you can figure out who sent it.

In addition to AWS certifications, here in the Seattle market, certain Microsoft certifications come up a lot.

If the scholarship is worth a lot of money, you likely won't get that as a transfer student elsewhere, so the cost of walking away could be pretty high. If your family needs the money in order for your child to complete a college education, I'd try to keep your personal reactions to this situation as positive as possible. Being able to extract information from dense reading assignments efficiently is an academic superpower. That being said, I think a professionally-written (not whining, not angry) complaint from the students is reasonable under these circumstances.

Here ya go! https://www.bigjeducationalconsulting.com/s/Financial-Aid-for-Nonresident-Alien-Undergraduates-August-2020-Sheet1.pdf

If your student graduates with a diploma from a high school or cover school with a number in the federal database, put high school. Otherwise, put homeschool. Makes it much easier if your FAFSA is selected for verification.

This article, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21453067/amy-coney-barrett-potential-nominee-supreme-court cites many primary sources, including this one: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1619&context=jcl

The FAFSA does not ask about IRS-designated retirement accounts. (So, an IRA or 401(k), not a general investment account that you consider to be "for retirement") The CSS/PROFILE may ask about them, depending on the college.

This doesn't mean it's OK -- since it's replacing a risk to spiritual health with a risk to physical health -- but churches do have a Q problem... If members won't support a pastor because they don't share their belief in the coronavirus conspiracy, what is a pastor to do? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/26/1007611/how-qanon-is-targeting-evangelicals

Again, this was meant as a general reminder to think with our heads and not our hearts. It is not about your personal circumstances. If it should be about anyone's personal circumstances, it should be about Janeway's, since she's the one who has to make a decision here. Colleges are supposed to have quarantine plans to cover this! Of course, it may vary in quality from campus to campus. It's something to look into before sending your kid back to campus. Don't wait until you're in this sort of situation.

That "if" is doing a lot of lifting here -- So much depends on the individual situation -- how versed are you in infection control? how many household members are there to protect, and are any of them medically vulnerable, essential workers, moving about the greater community where they could spread the virus to others, etc? how can you get this kid home without exposing others to risk? And the calculus changes when "there's a possibility that..." to "he's definitely got it..." It wasn't meant to shame you, personally -- it was meant to be a reminder to think with our heads as well as our hearts. Of course we want to be near our kids when they're suffering, of course we think we can care for our kids better than others, -- but is that true? A mom of a college age kid is likely over 50 and therefore possibly be medically vulnerable themselves... Can you imagine the guilt a kid would feel if they infected their mom and she had serious side effects.

If you know for sure he could infect your whole household, definitely bring him home? No, that may make "mom sense" but it's not the best idea for reducing virus spread. The CDC guideline is quarantine at least 10 days after a positive test, and for those with symptoms, at least 3 days after your fever ends if fever ends later than 10 days after symptoms start.

My kid got the avocadogreen mattress. Took a while to arrive (thanks COVID) and she's only slept on it a couple weeks, but so far so good.

No account needed - just type twitter.com slash FacesOfCOVID into your browser (Not sure why I'm not allowed to embed the link, but there it is)

Actually, public health professionals *do* study psychology, mental health, education, economics and the various aspects of society are effected in order to improve everyone's health. The problem is that our federal and many state governments have defunded and downsized them, and don't listen to those who are left. Virologists can look at the data and identify the strains and where they came from and how they evolve and so on. Epidemiologists can look at the data and determine how contagious etc it is. Public health is about how we can take what virologists and epidemiologists know about an illness (and what they are now calling the "infodemic" of misinformation about covid) and work on implementing policies to improve outcomes for the public as a whole. They are the multi-disciplinary experts in all this.

The goal SHOULD be to reduce the deaths to zero, knowing we won't ever get there. The time when we don't have to restrict weddings is the time when having a wedding doesn't change the risk of getting covid significantly more than other daily activities. That might mean either (a) prevalence is very low (so, like how New Zealand did it) or (b) a different mitigation strategy that is more effective or less restrictive is available (for example, the wealthy have parties now, but they pay to have guests take the fast covid test at entry. for the rest of is, that less restrictive mitigation might be a vaccine). As a society, we could also choose to allow some risky things by shutting down other risky things in order to balance the overall risk. So close the bars and Disney World to make it safer to reopen schools and offices could be a choice.

It has to be combination of prevalence (estimated level of infection) as well as rate of spread -- mitigation needs to be higher when the odds of encountering someone positive are higher. But even with low prevalence, certain mitigations to ensure that "super spreader" events don't happen may still be necessary.

What if... there isn't a time when "things go back the way they were"? What if it's like the seatbelts and airbags in our cars, or the scanners at the airports, and warning people to use condoms to prevent AIDS -- what if we have to have a "new normal?" New Zealand crushed the virus, but they kept on testing and found another outbreak, for example. Maybe we will always wear masks in certain high-risk situations. Maybe we can replace uncomfortable mitigations with less uncomfortable ones. But, maybe, once a virus gets this deep into a population, it is too late to eradicate it.

Another is the @facesofcovid Twitter account.

It takes a lot of time/money/lawyers to get through our immigration system, even in normal times. These are not normal times. They are deliberately making it as hard as possible for people to get through the system. Even people approved for green cards right now can't get them because the Department of Homeland Security is not printing them. This person should not get married or mingle financial accounts/obligations without a clear idea of the risks/costs.

If you can't get an SAT due to COVID and have no "outside" scores/grades at all, you might consider adding an at-home standardized test (from somewhere like Seton Testing) to try to show some sort of standardized test score even if it's not the SAT.

Sorry again that this happened to you guys. That's a lot of money to lose to "flakey roommates."

Ugh... I'm so sorry that happened. (Note to other parents: Make sure all roommates go to lease signing together or don't let kid sign.) My kiddo is one of the last-minute backing-out ones. When her last class went online she decided living on campus wasn't worth the cost. It was campus housing, which has been more flexible about leasing than the area landlords during covid, and it was before room draw. They've been delaying room draws to allow for all these last minute changes, so I hope it works out for the roommate. It wasn't anything personal, just with her lab class cancelled there was no reason to be there.

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