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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting nobody is mentioning UNC here. A SLAC would have dealt with this quickly by picking up the phone and calling the school counselor. DD might not have even known about it.

With big public universities, you get what you pay for.[/quote]
I’m all for SLACs - I went to one and I expect there’s a strong chance my kid will go to one - but that’s a dumb statement. It might be that the college would contact the HS but I think it’s more likely they’d contact the student. It’s the student’s responsibility. HS need permission to release info to a college and if the student hadn’t properly provided it (which sounds like may well have been the case), it would bounce back to the student anyway, so might as well go directly to the source.

And either way, UNC *did* have a system in place that worked. They held (not rescinded) the placement and contacted the student. The problem was resolved (it sounds like relatively quickly) and a lesson was learned about double-checking submissions and maybe even following up to confirm successful completion. Done. [/quote]

IDK my friends son went to a SLAC, his dad died the 1st month there. He went home, went to funeral, went back to school and never left his room for 2 months. The SLAC never noticed, didn't check on him, he literally had food delivered. His roommate finally called my friend, the mom, AFTER 2 MONTHS.

OTOH, her other son who was a sophomore was at MD state college, his professors gave him an alternate schedule for his projects to be turned in, a counselor visited him a few times, the RA check on him weekly, he received information about a support group. [/quote]

As someone who lost her mom freshman year, this hurts my heart.  Though my large Ivy (Cornell) did no better back in the day.  I’m impressed that MD did better.  [/quote]

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