We know that not every student is college bound nor should college be the only way in which an individual can have a successful life.
The SAT is taken primarily by seniors bound for college, and since more girls than boys go to college, about 100,000 more girls than boys take the test, including lower-achieving girls who bring down the girls' average score.
And among those bound for college, the rate -- brace yourself -- was better than 60percentt.
But she said that just as Dakota is bound for college next year, she, too, won't cut short her education.
(And, for our purposes here on The Choice, it also provides something of a reality check for high school seniors who will soon be bound for college).
For some of the teenagers, it would be one last big night out before they left this decaying steel town, bound for college.
As principal, he offended his fellow school reformers by demanding that his black and Hispanic students, many from poor families, take the SAT's and Regents tests that are more commonly expected of upper-middle class children bound for college.
With a student body that is 98 percent black or Hispanic, with 80 percent of its students requiring financial aid, virtually every graduating senior was bound for college: Penn, Cincinnati, Holy Cross, Fairfield, Iona.
His nickname, Suge, spoke to his huggable "Sugar Bear" nature, and he was thought of as a smart kid bound for college; indeed, he played defensive end for University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before returning to the Los Angeles area to try to break into the record business.
Dress like a teen bound for college, and you'll see other likeminded achievers sitting at your lunch table.
You can't chart out your future the way I'd imagined as a young optimist bound for college, then law school.
