My youngest girl just recently graduated from high school,
she'd like to be a graphic designer and we began to take a look at exactly what
universities she may wish to go to. Sadly I must say our daughter would be the world’s
biggest procrastinator and put off trying to find a college or university till
one week prior to graduation.
I had actually been telling her for over a year to do her
research and search for universities or colleges and had mistakenly thought that
the persistent nagging had done its job. She repeatedly told me that she had
already been looking at universities and colleges, and I thinking that she is
now eighteen and is technically a grownup that she should be accountable for
getting her university. I should have perhaps been more attentive.
A lot of the community universities and colleges had by now
accepted all their new students for the new calendar year, and so finding a
school for her turned out to be much harder then it could have been if she'd
applied six months ago. Given that the colleges and universities already had
their new student quotas for the fiscal year completely filled we needed to
search elsewhere.
Our girl had 2 possible choices: wait 1 year to get admitted
and only work for the school year or maybe she could look at technical and
on-line colleges. She wasn’t attracted to the idea of waiting a full year
before beginning university so she looked at the local technical colleges.
She discovered a college which provided graphic design online courses that could fit in with her work and that can be transferred in
case she chose to obtain bachelors rather than an associate’s degree. The
graphic design online program that she checked out was definitely within our
spending budget (because she had additionally neglected to apply for any
scholarships and grants), and they also a financial aid program that she could
apply for. We checked out their graphic design online courses and were the very
same ones she would've taken in the community college or university.
The actual admission process was actually easy and
pain-free, once she had been accepted we were pleasantly surprised that most of
the university level courses that she had taken in high school can count
towards her diploma. I was additionally relived that she had been assigned a
student advisor who could help keep her on target with her school schedule. My
husband and I at the same time made a decision to instigate the rule that if
she did not complete all of her coursework and have a's and b's that after the
first term she would have to pay for college all on her own. This could seem to
be a bit hard however after what we went through to get her in to a school, we
were not going to let her slack on her school work like she did with choosing a
college. Even So don’t think that we’re going to have to worry about this,
she’s genuinely excited to start her graphic design online program.
Overall I feel this may turn out to be much better than a traditional four year school for my child. Overall I think everything miraculously turned out for the better. . I’m really just thankful this is my last child to go to college and that I don’t need to go through this again. Call me a mean mother but I kind of hope that she gets to go through this with one of her own children someday. But at least then we will know what graphic design online program to go to first! You can click here for more information about graphic design.
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