And even though as many as two-thirds of Hope students let their college grades slip so much that they no longer qualify — "I've lost Hope," they joke when it happens — Georgia still gives away more financial aid per student than any other state.
I could almost feel the financial yoke of my son's college tuition slipping off my neck.
Generations of over-caffeinated high school students have sat in these same halls, trying to remember the Uniform Motion Formula and sensing their college prospects slipping away as they struggle to stay awake through some of the most excruciatingly dull reading passages ever written.
Students are passing in forms every day for dozens of different things: athletic banquets, field trips to colleges, permission slips for roller skating during P.E., doctor's notes, progress reports, pieces of paper I never even handed to them that they are just passing in, signatures askew.
He had discovered the ponies growing up in San Mateo, Calif., where his father, a president of a junior college, liked to slip away to the racetrack.
Frøkedal didn't come to the U.S. this year — she mostly plays in Europe — but a Viking ship, the Draken Harald Hårfagre, did, sailing from Haugesund, Norway (where Frøkedal went to college), to a slip in the Hudson, and I went and admired it.
While Blair's Fettes College background could slip by unnoticed, the Eton College siren meant Cameron would always be a Tory.
The College-Visit Trouser Slip on these flattering lightweight wool trousers for your visit to Oberlin with Nathan.
Last season: 8-8 Needs: Outside linebacker, wide receiver, running back, defensive back Pick: Jarvis Jones, defensive end/outside linebacker, Georgia A dominant player in college, Jones has slipped down draft boards amid concern over his slow 40-yard time (he clocked 4.92 at his Pro Day), as well as his long-term durability.
I'm standing by what I said there: "A dominant player in college, Jones has slipped down draft boards amid concern over his slow 40-yard time (he clocked 4.92 at his Pro Day), as well as his long-term durability.
