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Jacklyn Hernandez’s plans to shop for dorm-room essentials and to visit with family before heading to college came to a crashing halt Monday morning when she received a call from the high school from which she’d recently graduated.

Hernandez is one of 12 recent Burges High School graduates who found out that a counseling error is forcing them back to the classroom to fulfill a course requirement they thought they had already completed.

Hernandez and most of the other students took forensics instead of the required physics for their fourth year of science at the suggestion of a counselor.

Now the students are spending the next two weeks at Burges to fulfill their graduation requirements.

“I’m pretty upset about it,” said Hernandez, who graduated No.

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If you are a rising high school senior, you probably thought you had all summer to get prepared for the upcoming college admission frenzy. But guess what? Youre running out of time.

To avoid the time crunch in the fall, here are five things you can do now:

1. Examine school prices: I think its reckless to apply to a school if you dont have some sense of what kind of price you would have to pay. Sticker prices, however, are often meaningless. At private colleges and universities, for instance, 88 percent of students receive some type of price break.

The good news is that its becoming much easier to determine what the tab will be in advance by using federally mandated net price calculators.

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You may have heard about the recent string of controversies surrounding for-profit colleges and universities.  (see reference article at bottom)

In the past year and a half numerous reports and statistics have revealed that for-profit colleges are furthering student debt at a massive rate, yet failing to produce quality graduates at the same time.

If you’ve been hoping to submit an application at a for-profit college, or even if you know someone who has stated their interest in applying at a for-profit college in the near future, here are four factors to keep in mind:

1. Th

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So, the suit by New York City’s United Federation of Teachers and the NAACP to block 22 school closures and 15 charter school co-locations in Gotham came to naught. And  Mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to Gotham Schools, celebrated by mouthing off on a local radio show:

Close isn’t what we do. It’s retaking these schools, and over a number of years changing the management, the teachers, the programs, in schools that aren’t working. One of these schools, I think they had a three percent proficiency rating in English and nine percent in math. And the suit wanted to keep that school open. This is

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