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$1,505—$2,036 1—2 bed 17101 N Bay Rd, Sunny Isles Beach FL, 33160
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Commute to Downtown Sunny Isles Beach
The rent at Beach Place Apartments ranges from $1,505 for a one bedroom to a $2,036 two bedroom. Apartments in this building are about 14% less expensive than the Sunny Isles Beach average.
This apartment is in Sunny Isles Beach. Nearby parks include Sunny Isles Beach Park, Oleta River State Park and Oleta River State Park.
Beach Place Apartments has a Walk Score of 58 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
Parking, Jacuzzi, Good School District, Dog Park, Controlled Access Security System, Minutes to Aventura Mall, Shopping, Dining, Banking Within Walking, Free Weights, Resort Style Deck With Heated Poo, Located In Prestigious Sunny Isles Beach, Fresh Ocean Breezes.Walk to the Beach!, Convenient to Public Parks
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Mar 15, 2015
Worst place ever, I would recommend not to move here, If you have other options please not move here. I lived here for almost 2 years. Staff is very rude, not at all accommodating especially the manager. They discriminate between the renters.Parking always a problem. ( almost no parking for guests, most of the time visitor park at the side of street). Building is old even after the renovation its not better, Sewer is a problem. Appliances are very poor quality, frequently broken. no washer and dryer in the unit. 1-2 paid washer and dryer per floor which is not enough, They are also frequently out of work. very few amenities. Overall its not worth the amount of rent they charge.
francine Levi
Jul 31, 2014
I don't live here but my husband does. I think the staff is great and friendly. I never saw any roaches,ants, or any bugs in his house. It's big, nothing breaks the staff is wonderful. The manager is the loveliest lady. I would recommend this building to everyone. It's big, beautiful and lovely people.\Its perfect.
Amanda Anderson
Jul 29, 2014
Disgusting!! I swear there were roaches e v e r y w h e r e!! And not just roaches, but earth worms, spiders, ants, silver fish, and god only knows what else. Time spent here was a living hell. Maybe if you have a bug fetish you'll enjoy it. I freaked the hell out! The complex looks nice enough, newly renovated and everything, but don't let that fool ya! There will be bugs crawling out of every crevice in the building.
Marcel Archer
Dec 04, 2013
I moved here to Beach Place a little over a month ago and so far I have not had any issues. The staff is friendly and have accommodated my every need. When I first moved in my fridge wasn't making ice and they gave me a hotline to call and it was taken care of later that day. I had some ants on the balcony they too came and sprayed that day (Tuesday). Parking can pose some what of an issue maybe 1 out of 7 days a week, and even then you can find parking you might have to walk 30 yards... big deal. Everyday I see a cleaning crew here within the building and or landscapers outside trimming, cutting etc. The pool in nice close to the beach, internet and cable is included and I work from home sometimes and I rarely have an issue. It isn't loud, updated kitchens and bathroom's at least within my unit... so I don't get what these bad reviews are about. Awhile back ago I was doing Valet at the Trump Towers..... This isn't the Trump Towers but it's a nice place period and I have lived in and been to all parts of Miami (North Bay Village, Sky Lake etc. Don't read these reviews and not inquire, come check it out for yourself.
James Jones
Oct 20, 2013
DO NOT MOVE HERE!!! For the love of God, just don't. You have to have a special kind of patience to deal with this place. It's an older place that is trying to renovate to a new look so that means there WILL be construction and lots of it for the next coming years. They will warn you at 6 pm that night before that they will be in your apartment at 9 am until 5 pm. The staff is RUDE! They have no sympathy and are immune to any kind of complaints. People are constantly in the office complaining and they don't give a flying ____(insert word here) about what anyone thinks. Yes, the room sizes are a bit bigger than a place like Intracoastal or Porto Bellagio, but you will enjoy it at any of these other places. Beach Place has NOOOO amenities, zip, nothing, zilch. They have like 2 treadmills and cheap washing machines (they look new) but they will constantly rip your clothes and the left over bleach in them will do wonders for that tie-dye look you've been dying to have on ALL of your clothes. The smell of human feces is also great as they constantly have flooding problems in one of the buildings. Parking sucks, they don't enforce any dog owners to pick up feces (great smell!), gym sucks, pool is meh, laundry sucks, staff really sucks, noise level (construction) sucks, and that's just all off the top of my head, but at least you get free cable. Just don't rent here, you will find out as soon as you move in.
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In Nov 2013 we installed the first of our Manx shearwater study nest boxes. These were inspired from a visit to New Zealand where we saw them in action with Fluttering and Hutton's shearwaters. The aim was to give ourselves a population we could easily work on for productivity and GPS tracking purposes, something not that easy to achieve on Ramsey as most of our expanding population (still recovering following rat eradication) nest in a deep network of rabbit warrens.
14 of the 23 boxes installed to date have been visited by prospecting non-breeding birds. We know this from camera trapping and from evidence of occupation e.g. guano in entrance or in box or the fact that bracken stems carefully placed at the back of the tunnel had been knocked down.
However yesterday was a very exciting day in that a pair of birds were found in a box for the first time by day. This is a classic pattern that new pairs go through i.e. visiting the colony at night, finding a burrow, finding each other, then staying in the burrow by day to pair bond. I didn't have my ringing kit with me yesterday but Lisa and I went back this evening. Not unexpectedly this pair had gone back out to sea last night but another box (which had no birds in it yesterday but signs of a rudimentary nest) had 2 birds in it this time. We lifted the lid and carefully extracted the 2 birds from box 15 and put a metal BTO ring on each.
Hopefully these pairs, plus others will return to breed in the boxes next year. Non breeding birds return to the colony from year 2 onwards and find a mate and burrow in the following years before breeding for the first time at 5 or 6 years old.
Our next full survey is due in 2016 - in 2012 we had 3,800 pairs which is up from just 850 pairs in 1999, the year before the rat eradication project took place
Ramsey is slowly being restored to the seabird island it once was.
Lisa installing a Manx shearwater nest box in Nov 2013
GM ringing today's bird - the first to be found in the new nest boxes
The first Manx shearwater to take a shine to our nest boxes
Visitors to Ramsey will probably have come across our flock of Welsh mountain sheep. They are part of our conservation grazing scheme primarily for the benefit of chough although many other species benefit from the grazed grassland such as wheatears.
Managing the sheep involves a good deal of animal husbandry and Lisa and I have been well trained over the years in this respect by Derek Rees, a local farmer who also brings our post and supplies to the island in his purpose built boats. However there is one job that we all leave to the experts in this field.....shearing!
Each year around this time Aled and his gang from the Gwaun valley in north Pembrokeshire cross the Sound with all their equipment and make short work of our relatively small flock (100 animals this year).
Wool prices have improved of late and at least cover the costs of shearing. Shearing needs to be done regardless of the income however as leaving thick fleeces on the animals through summer would be very uncomfortable for them and leave them prone to a very nasty condition called fly-strike whereby green bottles lay their eggs in the fleece and when the maggots hatch start eating the flesh of the sheep. Untreated this will often kill the sheep. Now that they are sheared we can forget about this potential issue until at least September and the sheep can stay cool in the long hot summer that lies ahead for us!.......
Below is a short video we made yesterday of the event, starting off with a 'sheepdogs-eye' view of proceedings as Dewi gathered them in! It was all filmed on a new Go-Pro camera kindly donated to the island by our boat operator Thousand Islands Expeditions
I'm still very much getting used to using it so please excuse the shaky editing!
Manx sheawaters are arguably the RSPB's biggest success story on Ramsey. When we took over the island in 1992 it was plagued with introduced brown rats, a disaster for any burrowing nesting seabird which has evolved over millions of years to nest underground on offshore islands free of such predators.
In 1999/2000 the RSPB together with Wildlife Management International from NZ manged to eradicate the rats and the results have been extraordinary. In 1998 the population stood at just 850 pairs with productivity virtually zero. At the last full census in 2012 that figure had lept to 3,800 pairs. Our next full census is in 2016 and it will be interesting to see if the population has continued to rise over the past 4 years.
Today I was out surveying a small study plot to find out which burrows were occupied before spending a week in July attaching data loggers to birds in an on-going long term study on these remarkable birds migration patterns (they go to Argentina for the winter!). To do this we play a short burst of a recording of a male/female duetting pair and listen for a response. This is the only way to accurately survey a species that spends most of its life either at sea or underground! At this time of year birds are incubating eggs so you have the best chance of getting a response as at least one of the pair should be home by day.
I took this short video which hopefully illustrates the point and gives a glimpse into the underground world of the Manx shearwater. After a short burst of the MP3 recording the real thing calls back. This bird is a male (higher pitched than females)
As you will see I am accompanied by my trusty companion Dewi, our sheepdog! When he is off duty from sheep work he accompanies me on most tasks. He loves shearwater surveys as he can sniff them out long before I get to the burrow! He usually lies down outside a burrow to tell me if it is occupied or not. He is very well trained in this respect and its not unusual for dogs to be used to for seabird surveys. See this link for a story from Birdlife International - these are highly trained dogs however and ordinarily I wouldn't advocate taking a dog to a seabird island!
Signs were good today. 19 of my 21 study burrows were definitely occupied which means birds carrying data loggers from last year all seem to be present and correct. Fingers crossed our 2016 full survey sees the population go from strength to strength
To see these remarkable birds for yourself an overnight stay at a colony is required. Our friends and neighbours at the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales manage both Skomer and Skokholm islands. You can book through the Trust to stay on either island - see here for details
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IMPORTANT: This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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When a Systems Management Server (SMS) client that has been discovered by an SMS 2.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server resides inside the site boundaries of an SMS 2.0 Service Pack 1 (build 1380) site, that site's Client Configuration Manager (CCM) attempts to install the remaining client components and optional client agents. This can potentially place the client in an unstable condition.
A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft. This fix is one of two fixes that are required for SMS 2.0 sites with Service Pack 1 (build 1380) before any site can be upgraded to SMS 2.0 SP2. This fix is included in the Smsqfe folder on the SP2 CD-ROM. Detailed instructions for hotfix installation are also included in the Release Notes that accompany the service pack.
For additional information about the accompanying fix that you must apply to SMS 2.0 sites with Service Pack 1 (build 1380), click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249077/EN-US/ )SMS: SP1: Copylog.tcf File Does Not Reflect Which Site Last Updated the Logon Point
261931To avoid the condition described in the "Symptoms" section of this article, you must apply the fix that is described in this article to all SMS 2.0 sites with Service Pack 1 (build 1380) before any site is upgraded to SMS 2.0 SP2. Click the following file name to download the file from the Microsoft Download Center:
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/261931/EN-US/ )SMS: Required Hotfixes Before Installing SMS 2.0 SP2
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Date Time Version Size File name Platform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/28/2000 10:49AM 2.0.1380.1125 143 KB Ccm.dll Intel 1/28/2000 10:50AM 2.0.1380.1125 397 KB Ccmbtldr.exe Intel 12/20/1999 4:42PM 2.0.1380.1101 857 KB Baseobj.dll Intel 1/28/2000 10:54AM 2.0.1380.1125 227 KB Ccm.dll Alpha 1/28/2000 10:54AM 2.0.1380.1125 642 KB Ccmbtldr.exe Alpha 12/20/199 5:18PM 2.0.1380.1101 1.33 MB Baseobj.dll Alpha
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 1.
This hotfix is required for interoperability between SMS 2.0 sites with Service Pack 1 (build 1380) and SMS 2.0 SP2 sites.
NOTE: You must install this hotfix on all SMS sites that share a domain with other SMS sites.
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Method 1: Using the Update InstallerNOTE: This method is only for Intel-based computers.
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How to Manually Update a Remote SMS SQL Monitor ServerNOTE: Before you implement this update on your SMS site database server, you must install the update on the SMS site server(s) in your environment.
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Manually Updating a Remote SMS ProviderThis section describes how to implement SMS 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) QFE updates to the SMS Provider when it is running on a computer other than the site server.
NOTE: Before you implement this update on your SMS Provider server, you must install it on the SMS site server(s) in your environment.
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How to Manually Update a Remote SMS Administrator ConsoleThis section describes how to implement SMS 2.0 SP1 QFE updates to the SMS Administrator console when it is running on a computer other than the site server.
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Kent S. Greenawalt Given WFC Honor Award at 12th Biennial Congress in South Africa
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—Foot Levelers, Inc. Chairman and CEO Kent S. Greenawalt recently received an Honor Award from the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) at the organization's 12th Biennial Congress, which was held at the International Convention Center in Durban, South Africa. Greenawalt received the award to recognize the positive impact he and Foot Levelers have had on the chiropractic profession both within the United States and internationally.
The World Federation of Chiropractic Honor Award has been given out annually since 1991; and of the 24 all- time recipients Greenawalt is just the eighth from the United States. The award, which is the highest given by the WFC, is designed to honor those that have provided "outstanding services to the international growth and advancement of the chiropractic profession."
David Chapman-Smith, the Secretary-General of the WFC, noted the contribution Greenawalt and Foot Levelers have made to the international chiropractic profession, "The WFC wanted to honor Kent for the support he has shown for international chiropractic, which has included providing complimentary speakers to WFC seminars to pioneer chiropractic in places like Brazil, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Budapest."
Chapman-Smith also referenced the financial support Greenawalt and Foot Levelers have delivered to the WFC, "The financial support the WFC receives from Kent and Foot Levelers is instrumental in the success of our key initiatives. As an example, their support for a recent consultation was vital in leading to the agreed market identity for chiropractic as the spinal health experts."
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the future health care role of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), focusing on: (1) how VA's system transformation is progressing and what challenges VA faces as its role evolves; and (2) the relationship between VA's health care role and that of other public and private health benefits programs, including the effects changes in those programs could have on VA health care.
GAO noted that: (1) VA has made progress in transforming its health care system to compete more effectively with health care providers in order to become veterans' provider of choice; (2) these initiatives have enabled VA to avoid over $1 billion in unnecessary expenses--savings that have provided critical financing needed to further improve the system's overall accessibility and quality of care; (3) in addition, the networks are planning to develop and implement additional efficiency initiatives over the next 5 years; (4) but VA faces several challenges before completing its transformation; (5) of these, VA's decisions concerning existing infrastructure may be the most significant and contentious; (6) VA continues to serve veterans in other locations, using aged and deteriorating buildings that will require billions of additional dollars to renovate or replace; (7) VA's decisions to consolidate inpatient medical care at fewer locations are complicated by such challenges as VA's longstanding relationships with universities' medical schools for education and research, and with the Department of Defense for contingency medical support; (8) in GAO's view, VA's future success in fulfilling its health care role, as envisioned by recent eligibility reforms, depends in large part on its ability to transform its current delivery infrastructure into an integrated system of VA and private-sector providers, which may be more attractive to new users, especially those already insured, who could provide VA with an additional source of revenue; (9) VA's strategy also suggests that it will ultimately purchase much more health care from private-sector providers than it does now and deliver care using its existing infrastructure only in those geographic areas where a private-sector alternative is not reasonably available or where VA is the acknowledged leader; (10) VA's success also will depend on its ability to overcome several management and implementation challenges; (11) if, as some have suggested, VA's competitive role is expanded to include not only the current veteran population but also veterans' spouses and dependents, the challenges facing VA will be even greater; (12) it is essential that VA address these infrastructure and other management challenges; (13) if VA is ultimately unable to overcome these challenges, it is conceivable that VA could have to limit enrollment among lower-income veterans; and (14) this could include those with the greatest need, because they have no other health care alternatives.
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Veterans' Disability Benefits:VA Can Better Ensure Unemployability Decisions Are Well SupportedGAO-15-464: Published: Jun 2, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 2, 2015.
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It has already been two months since I last posted, marking another cavernous space wherein I have gone dormant, figuratively speaking. Although, as much as being a bear this winter has its appeal, I have been busy doing my life work anyway.
I was struck by this post about showing up and being meaningful and it inspired me to say that I, too, want what I put out here to matter, to find what resonates deep within me with the hope that it might also resonate deep within you and make you want to carry the ripple far and farther out.
I have been hearing the galloping of the year of the wood horse approaching, feeling the drum beat of the hooves thrumming up from the earth. Are you ready to trust your wild stallion and ride bare back through this year? I am. I shed heavily with snake last year, with yet some patches of skin left to ruck off. I realized today that I am ready. Under all the changes and shifts, the angst and fist pounding denial. Under the healing and the nourishment, there is the nugget of me who is feeling the light on her skin, the barest glimpses of the truth of who I am and what I am here to do. Are you with me?
A glimpse of me and my world lately....
Thursday, January 23, 2014
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6 comments:
- oreneta said...
Lovely to hear from you again....and what a LOT of snow!!!!!
- January 24, 2014 at 1:44 AM
- Sherry Smyth said...
I see you in full gallop...ready to stride forward, carrying a banner of "here I am". love you! xo
- January 24, 2014 at 8:36 AM
- Roos said...
Your wild stallion? Wow, that sounds promising :-)
I'm with you (on a pony, haha!)
Sending lots of love!
- January 24, 2014 at 9:56 AM
- thecatalanway said...
Hello it is always lovely when you come back! What snow! What exciting times we are living!
I am looking forward to Wood Horse arriving and I too am ready to gallop.See you on the ride! Love you dear friend
Kate xxx
- January 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM
- Juz said...
hehehehe Cute Snowman.
Greetings from Cape Town. Juz.
- February 24, 2014 at 9:44 AM
- Kim Mailhot said...
How I love your voice.
I miss you.
Gallop on, Amazing One. Your have places to BE.
Love ya !
- March 17, 2014 at 11:00 AM
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Two gun-wielding motorcyclists reportedly seen firing at a van are being sought by Greater Manchester police.
Officers appealed for witnesses to come forward with information about the shooting, which took place in Salford at around 5.50pm yesterday.
The two men were riding an orange motorbike and fired a handgun at a white van before both they fled the scene at the junction of Lower Broughton Road and Frederick Street.
Police said they had no reports anybody had been injured.
Detective Inspector Kenny Blain said: "We are at the early stages of our inquiries and don't yet know if anybody was hurt. I would urge you to come forward if you were injured or involved in this incident.
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Tonight's show will be going ahead, if we didn't Ted would kick our arses. Lot's of love for the big man. The Phoenix will rise again!
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Temple University, a large, public college in urban Philadelphia ranked 121 on the US News list of National Universities, offers automatic merit scholarships based solely on grades and test scores.
The most generous award is the President's Scholars, which offers full tuition plus $8,000 in stipends for approved "study abroad, research, internships or other summer academic activities". Freshmen qualify with the following criteria:
High-school GPA ≥ 3.8
SAT CR + Math ≥ 1420
ACT Composite score ≥ 32
Four other scholarships are available, as outlined in the table below. About 40% of entering freshmen receive academic scholarships, and any student with a GPA of at least 3.0 and SAT score of 1150 will receive some level of merit aid. 2015 fall tuition and fees for a 12-hour semester at Temple University are $14,130 for Pennsylvania residents and $24,350 for out-of-state residents.
The Posse Foundation makes college more accessible for students who may be overlooked by top schools because they do not meet their traditional admissions measures. Although the program does not screen based on need, many Posse Scholars come from low-income areas. Students are chosen based on a rigorous selection method, and graduate from college at a 90% rate.
What Is Posse? Posse is a college access and youth leadership development program that identifies, recruits and selects student leaders from public high schools and sends them in groups called Posses to some of the top colleges and universities in the country. A Posse is a multicultural team made up of 10 students. It acts as a support system to ensure that each Posse Scholar succeeds and graduates from college. Posse Scholars receive four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships from Posse partner colleges and universities.
How Did Posse Get Its Name? In 1989, Posse Founder and President Deborah Bial was working with talented urban young people. She watched these students go off to college, only to see them return within a semester having dropped out. Knowing that these students were bright and capable, she couldn't understand what was making them leave college. When she asked them what happened, one student replied, "If I only had my posse with me, I never would have dropped out." That simple idea, of sending a group—or posse—of students together so they could "back each other up," became the impetus for a program that today has sent hundreds of students to top colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Why Posse? The Posse Foundation has three goals: 1) to expand the pool from which top colleges and universities can recruit outstanding young leaders from diverse backgrounds; 2) to help these institutions build more interactive campus environments so that they can become more welcoming institutions for students from all backgrounds; 3) to ensure that Posse Scholars persist in their academic studies and graduate so that they can take on leadership positions in the workforce.
Does Posse Work? Since 1989, Posse has recruited and trained 4,884 students who have won $577 million in leadership scholarships from Posse partner colleges and universities. More than 70 percent of Scholars have either founded or become leaders of campus organizations. Scholars act as change agents on campus, significantly contributing to the influence and longevity of student organizations. Most important, Posse Scholars persist and graduate at a rate of 90 percent. Posses help the retention of non-Posse students who are not part of the majority culture by fostering an inclusive campus community.
Posse recruits students from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C. It works with 51 partner colleges and universities across the country.
How do you know if a particular college is likely to offer you a discount on their tuition price? Before you even apply, you can get an estimate by running your specific profile data through a Net Price Calculator (NPC), a tool that can be found on every college's website.
Forbes ran a Net Price Calculation for five schools using several hypothetical scenarios. The results show discount rates (financial aid) that would be awarded given specified parameters.
… two types of students, one from a family with an annual income of $300,000 and another from a single-earner family making a mere $12,000 a year. We tested two different academic scenarios: a supersmart kid scoring 1540 on his SAT, with a 4.0 GPA and in the top 10% of his class, and a "B" student scoring 1250 on the SAT, with a GPA of 3.0 and in the top 50% of her graduating class.
The biggest surprise is that RPI gives more financial aid to English majors than to engineering students.
As you can see all the top institutions except well-endowed Amherst offer discounts or "merit" aid. Only Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) differentiates its aid on its calculator by the student's intended major as well as by income and ability. RPI clearly wants more poets and is willing to pay for them. President Nixon's alma mater, Whittier College in southern California, clearly isn't eager to attract lower-income students. In our test it offered an additional grant of only $1,334 to the low-income overachiever. Even after its ample discount, the needy student's family still has to come up with half the cost of attendance.
This illustration is a reminder that a Net Price Calculator can help guide your college search.
Should I apply to colleges I don't think I can afford?
Michelle Kretzschmar of Do It Yourself College Rankings answers that question.
No–with a big assumption. The assumption is that you already know approximately how much you can afford and how much financial aid a college is likely to give you. That means that you have already used a calculator such as the FAFS4caster to estimate your expected family contribution (EFC) and the college's net price calculator.
Searching for merit money could be a reason to apply to colleges that are otherwise unaffordable.
There is a situation where you might apply to colleges that you don't think you can afford. These are lessor known colleges where your test scores put you in the top 25% of applicants and makes you a candidate for substantial merit money.
But you have to stand firm. Don't fall in love with a school you can't afford.
However, this still requires that you have firmly established what you can afford and be willing to turn down those schools that don't become affordable even after merit money is awarded. Definitely, do not fall in love with a school you if you don't know you can afford it.
Public colleges and universities have shifted their financial aid priorities away from need-based to merit-based awards. Low-income students are feeling the brunt of this change, but pressure on schools to admit only college-ready students and to raise revenue will probably cause this trend to continue.
Public colleges are turning away from their mission to offer access to an affordable college education for all students.
A ProPublica analysis of new data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that, from 1996 through 2012, public colleges and universities gave a declining portion of grants—as measured by both the number of grants and the dollar amounts—to students in the lowest quartile of family income. That trend continued even though the recession hit those in lower income brackets the hardest.
Universities feel the dual pressures of raising their revenues and ratings.
Why have public universities across the nation shifted their aid?
"For some schools, they're trying to climb to the top of the rankings. For other schools, it's more about revenue generation," said Donald R. Hossler, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University at Bloomington.
To achieve those goals, colleges use their aid to draw wealthier students—especially those from out of state, who will pay more in tuition—or higher-achieving students, whose scores will give the colleges a boost in the rankings.
Private colleges have been using such tactics aggressively for some time. But in recent years, many public colleges have sought to catch up, doing what the industry calls "financial-aid leveraging."
The math can work like this: Instead of offering, say, $12,000 to an especially needy student, a college might choose to leverage its aid by giving $3,000 discounts to four students with less need, each of whom scored high on the SAT and who together will bring in more tuition dollars than the needier student will.
Those discounts are often offered to prospective students as "merit aid."
The student profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Ed article offered a clue to the reason many low-income students are losing out. They are academically unprepared for college-level work.
Ms. Epps had a combined SAT score of 820 on mathematics and critical reading…
That score is below the College Board SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmark, indicating a lack of "skills and knowledge that research demonstrates are critical to college and career readiness". The same low SAT scores that disqualify some students for merit aid also signal they are at high risk for dropping out of college.
Problem should be addressed before the college years.
The answer is not to give more need-based aid to students who are not prepared for college, but to do a better job of educating students to be college and career ready. That is the job of K-12 education and community colleges.
Related: Increasing college merit aid decreases enrollment of minority and low-income students (Cost of College)


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Who Wore It Best? Amber Riley vs. Queen Latifah in Donna Morgan
It's not often that two megastars wear the same dress within days of each other, but last week Amber Riley (Mercedes) and Queen Latifah donned the same long-sleeved, sequined black frock by Donna Morgan.
Amber wore hers to CoverGirl's 50th Anniversary Party on January 5, the same night that her Glee co-stars were across town collecting their People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Comedy Actress (Jane Lynch) and Favorite TV Comedy. Queen Latifah sported hers on the January 2 cover of Parade Magazine.
Black is slimming by nature, so it's an excellent choice for the red carpet or a photo shoot. Both ladies shine in this piece by the maker of "dresses for all shapes and sizes," and they hit the sequin trend right on the mark. (Wonder how Amber felt when Taylor Swift showed up post-People's Choice in a strapless version?!)
We prefer the way Amber accessorized the dress, with a glamorous headband and matching bows on her shoes. Her blue satin heels provide a much needed pop of color in an otherwise monotone ensemble. We like Queen Latifah's peep-toes as well, but her outfit could use some spicing up.
Given Latifah's lackluster accessories and the fact that all magazine cover are Photoshopped to some degree, we take our hats off to Ms. Riley. Yeah, we're playing favorites, but at least we admit our faults. Latifah, you may be Queen, but Amber has our hearts!


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