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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was surprised how quickly it went by!  Hard to fathom that he's a quarter done with college already. Surprised how easy a transition it was and how little we heard from him. A bit surprised that he has a serious girlfriend....I thought it was more of a hook-up culture in college these days but what do I know. Mildly surprised how easy he found the coursework at a highly selective LAC.  Definitely surprised that [b]colleges no longer send report cards to the parents that are actually paying the bill[/b].[/quote]

[b]I graduated from college in 1983, and colleges didn't send "report cards" (grades) back then either.

I don't see what paying the bill has to do with it.[/quote][/b]

I graduated in 1979 and my college didn't do that.  Today it would be a FERPA violation.[/quote]

What has surprised and annoyed all of our children is that they don't have the ability to REQUEST that the grade reports be sent to us.  So now they just give us their log-ins and passwords -- the oldest was the first to make the choice and then the others followed suit since we don't ask.  But it would be nice if we had our own log-ins and passwords.[/quote]

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