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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some colleges have writing requirements for graduation, as in you cannot graduate without earning your writing credential, including requirements for basic writing and writing specific to your major and degree. Your writing portfolio is reviewed by a panel of professors across disciplines in 
your senior year. If it is rejected, you have remediate it in the summer to get your degree. Look for something like that in the schools your child is interested in attending.[/quote]

Seems a good plan. Which schools?[/quote]

Saint Mary's (the women's college in Indiana) does this. They also have Senior Comprehensives in every major that must be passed in order to get a degree in the major. Some involve working 1:1 with a professor and writing a thesis that must be defended in front of the whole department and all seniors in the major; some are comprehensive exams that cover all matter in the major, some are independent works of original research, etc. depends on what makes the most sense for the degree. So to graduate you need to fulfill the course requirements, earn the "W" or Advanced "W," and pass your comps in at least one major.[/quote]

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