title: An Educated Choice: Advice for Parents of College-Bound Students
author:  Frank A. Brock 
description: Frank A. Brock is president of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He serves on the boards of the Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities, The Maclellan Foundation, The McCallie School, and the Chattanooga Resource Foundation.
zlib_text: ****_**Chapter Menu**_ ****
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Chapter Eighteen
  
  Chapter Nineteen
  
  Chapter Twenty
  
  Chapter Twenty One
  
  Chapter Twenty Two
  
  _**Chapter One**_
  
    
  
  They were gathered around a conference table in a high-rise, eight men and
  women, no one under the age of sixty-five, all of them wealthy beyond measure.
  And they were here, in the middle of Manhattan, to decide my fate.
  
  I was not quite sixteen and only one month out of my sophomore year of high
  school. My parents, philosophy professors, had been offered a two-year-long
  academic sabbatical at a university in Munich, Germany. That’s right—two years
  out of the country, which only really mattered because they decided I’d be
  better off staying in the United States.
  
  They’d passed along that l