Students who have been accepted to college and have applied for financial assistance have started getting their financial aid award letters during the past few weeks.
For many families, the arrival of a school’s financial aid award package means it is time to pull out the calculator. Read the rest of this article…
By Debi Yohn
If you read the reports or watch the evening news, recent campus violence, reports of date rape and issues of hazing might lead parents to conclude that college is a dangerous place. Thankfully, if you look at the statistics, the college campus is still a very safe place.
Unfortunately there are still some dangers on and around campus that both students and parents are well served to understand.
Threats and Precautions
Threats abound and it is important to understand basic security issues from keeping their computer and their technology gear secure in their dorm room, or safety precautions for walking in dark parking lots.
Alcohol Makes It More Complicated
Drinking is an issue for both men and women. Men tend to drink more but women’s cognitive skills are more affected by smaller amounts of alcohol.
When they experiment at college, they might not be in a safe environment. And frequently they have to get from the party to their dorm room or face the uncertainty of sleeping in a strange place.
No Big Deal?
Parents tend to minimize the issue of alcohol. I frequently hear parents say, “Alcohol abuse in college has been going on for years, we survived, I’m sure my kids will too.”
Unfortunately, over the years I’ve had the difficult task of counseling both parents and siblings of college students who met untimely deaths because of too much alcohol.
Each year more than 1700 students are killed and another 500,000 injured in alcohol-related incidents.
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Now you might be wondering why a college planning website is hocking a Mclovin widget… Hey, after seeing the movie with my kids, I couldn’t resist…
In any case, it has been my experience that Google is not big on widgets (okay, they hate them). They know just like you and I do that nobody is going to read the full source code in that box and so they are clearly not making an editorial decision on whether or not they really want give you a link.
The mclovin id maker creates a mclovin id for you… simple… then it gives you the code so you can put it on your site or your myspace. But it also tells you that by placing the code you will be linking to my site:
As you can see its CLEARLY labeled that by adding the image to the persons site they are linking back to the site also.
The mclovin site specifically has a ton of links all with the same anchor text and it ranks very well. #1 for Mclovin ID Maker and pretty good for just “mclovin” which their is actually a lot of search volume for.
Also Worth Reading: College Is Not For Everyone
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