College Tips Here!

Thanks for the information, have passed this along to son.

You are dead on with your advise RHPParent! Son took 4 classes over the summer with 2 of them being online. This fall he is taking 5 classes and 1 of them is online. I say all this because the convenience of the online course seemed to help him with flexibility during a summer full of ball, and I'm sure it will help this fall as well.

I believe we will see athletes nowadays begin utilizing online courses more and more. Heck, I would if I were a student-athlete!

Good advice, but at son's school you were not allowed online classes unless you had a certain GPA.

Online courses require much more discipline than showing up for class, make sure this is right for your player.

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Online classes are also a great option for players to keep up or get ahead during the summer months while away playing summer collegiate baseball. The key is to make sure that the courses are approved by your son's college.

Once you are at the four year, you have to get some sort of permission, my sons counselor advised him to take a couple GE classes next summer,but he had to go through the counselor first.I will clarify why when I know the answer.
My son took an online class this summer and it was great and so flexible.TPM is right though they have to stay on top of it.Actually it gave him enough units that he could transfer.

One negative with online courses is that the you don't have any contact with professor. Son had a class with 250+ others and professor lost his final and entered it as a 0. Fortunately, my son is very social and makes it a habit of talking to all professors and did so on the day of the final. Professor remembered talking to him after son emailed him about the 0 and whether he found it or said he found it, the grade was entered and he got a B, not a D. Tell your boys to talk to all professors even in classes of hundreds because they never know when they may need it.

Another helpful college tip that I have learned this year from sophomore son. He's a typical boy, doesn't always call us enough.

I finally found the way to have him call a little more often. I cooked/baked about 2 ice chests full of food like lasagne, chicken enchiladas, chili etc and took it to he and his roommates. He's called several nights in a row to ask questions about how to cook the dinners. I guess the written directions on each casserole weren't clear enough???

Anyway, he's checking in more because of it and we can squeeze a few questions in between cooking instructions.

And just so you don't accuse me of spoiling him, I don't really like to cook and this will probably be the only time for the next 3 years that I do this. For some reason just felt like doing it this year.

CaBB,

Wow sounds good.Last year when my son was close and at a jc he moved out with 4 other guys.Some of the kids were from outside the area.When each of the parents visited they went to the house and cooked for the boys.I did it a couple times and so did another local mom.
Hey nothing wrong with spoiling a good kid. Homecooked meals are awesome.My son is too far this year.But I plan on taking some stuff when we go to parent weekend. (Banana bread) his favorite

Hi Fan-
On several of your last posts there have been some cryptic letter, or phrases - what gives - some kind of secrect baseball society with in the hsbbweb?

last one was: titer, dn

My stupid computer locks up and sometimes I cant delete letters.I should go back and delete those when its not.

Another tip, this from one who has gotten one son through 5 years of college baseball and a degree (!!!), and with our younger son in his senior year:


For parents of freshmen: It's Thanksgiving, a week or two before junior's first college exams start. If at the Thanksgiving dinner table, you get to discussing schoolwork, and get evasive or vague answers to academic questions, be very afraid.

I had this conversation a few years ago:

"Are your exams comprehensive or just covering the last segment?"

son: "Huh?"

"Do the final exams cover the whole semester's material, or just the portion since the last test?"

son: "I don't know"

"What does it say on the syllabus?"

son: "I lost it."

"Which one?"

son: "All of them"

A dazzling fall semester GPA that started with a decimal-nothing to the left of the dot-followed.

While number one son to his credit righted his academic ship, worked hard enough to graduate, got his degree and is gainfully employed, the message is that evasive academic answers are not a good thing. If you get wishy washy answers, I submit it is not going to stunt the dear child's growth if you get greatly attentive to all things academic until they show they get things done right.

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On line classes...

Great option..for the right kids. Athletic Counselor said that atheletes tend to be tactile learners..meaning that they are better "hands on" rather than theoretical...on line can be more theoretical...makes on line classes more difficult for many athletes. Not a killer, but at the very least be careful what classes they take on line.


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Any advice for parent of son who will be spending first Thanksgiving away from home? Good news is he'll be working at a baseball camp for three of the four days - but I am a little worried (concerned?) about him spending Thursday in his dorm room alone with most of his teammates and schoolmates for that matter gone for the holiday. I am sure he'll be fine, but any ideas for making the holiday better for him would be appreciated.

Find a local restaurant and have dinner delivered to his dorm!