A free jump on college
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Want to give your high school junior or senior a fast start to college? Then check out the Jumpstart Open House information session on Saturday. Sept. 22 at Monroe College in New Rochelle.
Students can choose from 13 courses, including accounting, allied health, business and marketing, criminal justice, information technology, hospitality and culinary arts. The course is free and textbooks are included. Classes are held for 11 weeks beginning Saturday, Sept. 29 through Dec. 15. But you’ll have to rise early—the classes are held from 8:45 a.m. to 11:40 a.m. at Monroe’s campus at 434 Main St. in downtown New Rochelle.
To participate, students have to apply in advance, score a passing grade on a placement test and write a page-long personal essay, in addition to providing a high school transcript and other documents.
And what do students get out of this? A real introduction to college AND three college credits. That’s worth the early wake-up time on Saturday, right? (Well, at least parents might agree!)
The Open House takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and the placement test will be offered then. For more information, call Lisa Scora-Contrino, assistant director for admissions at Monroe, at 914-740-6807.
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on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 5:25 pm by Gayle T. Williams.
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With the skyrocketing tuitiion rates nationally, this is definitely worthy of consideration! I’ll pass the word.
Brenda,
Welcome to Parents’ Place! Glad to have you here.