College application Question - What does it mean am I "eligible to re-enroll"?
Generally, this question is for students that have attended the college before, took a semester/year off and now want to come back. They need to be eligible for re-enrollment. What they really want to know is, are you in Good Academic Standing with the college? If you have at least a 2.0 GPA, have 70% Completion Rate of all classes that you have enrolled in, and were not suspended or expelled, then you may answer yes to that question.
Can a 16-year-old live alone in the US and enroll in high school without a guardian or parents?
Sure. There is a legal process called EMANCIPATION. This is where the parents willfully give up all rights and claims to their adolescent and some states will allow it at 16 if the parents sign custody to a judge approved minor.Now ask me if a 16 year old SHOULD be emancipated. No. An apartment manager or owner will NOT want to rent to a person so young. Most jobs that pay decent wages you can live on WILL NOT hire under 18. Most 16 year Olds can NOT support themselves in a way that will make them able to thrive.I'm sorry but I believe you should consider maybe reporting your parents to the state (if there is honest abuse or neglect) or asking your parents if you can live with an alternate relative. If it's possible, maybe try to work things out. Why would anyone want to be homeless, or hungry and without the education, or the marketable skills necessary to pay for a place with utilities and food and hot water and other things necessary to really thrive
How long do public schools in the U.S. keep student records?
Clearly, it varies. I did a search and picked these states at random. The link follows each:The records of students enrolled before February 1975 are not subject to the regulations. Therefore, it is in the school district's discretion to decide how long to keep such records. In keeping with the intent of 603 CMR 23.06, however, the time limit for destruction of the record should probably be not less than sixty years for a transcript and not more than five years for the temporary record.Massachusetts - Student Records: Questions, Answers and GuidelinesEach school district must adopt rules specifying the content of pupil records and how long pupil records will be maintained. A student’s progress records must be maintained for at least five years after the student ceases to be enrolled. Please note this is a minimum retention period, Wis. Stat. sec. 118.125(3).Wisconsin - Page on wi.govThe New Jersey public school district of last enrollment, graduation, or permanent departure of the student from the school district shall keep for 100 years a mandated record of a student’s name, date of birth, name of parents, gender, health history and immunization, standardized assessment results, grades, attendance, classes attended, grade level completed, year completed, and years of attendance.New Jersey - 6A - 327.8(e) - Page on state.nj.us
Is 30 years old too late to start college?
I asked the same question once. I wanted to go back to school but said to a friend, "I'm 37 now. If I go back to school now, by the time I graduate in 4 years, I'll be 41." His reply was "If you don't go back to school, you'll still be 41 in 4 years." Point being, yes, go. It's never to late to improve yourself, to follow a dream, to be who you are meant to be.
Roughly 1 in 6 students enrolled in higher education took at least one oneline course last fall.?
A. The probability that 1 student took at least 1 online course is 1/6. To find the probability that all five took online courses, multiply each one together. Therefore, 1/6 to the 5th power. 1/7776. B. The probability that one student didn't take an online course is 5/6. 5/6 to the fifth power is 3125/7776. C. Subtract the probability that none of them took online courses from one. 4651/7776. Feel free to check other sources. I'm not 100% sure. I just did what I think makes sense.
Registering my daughter into school under my grandma's address/income. Bad idea?
It is a bad idea. First of all, they will want proof that you are living there-a bill or something in your name or sometimes a statement from a landlord, copy of your driver's license. Second, you probably WILL get caught. Federal and state laws determine where your child attends school, and to send them out of the district they are zoned for is fraud. States have started to be very careful about checking the information, mainly because money is involved. You can get permission to send a child out of district if you pay fees, and if you are caught doing so without permission, they can fine you for those fees. A child your daughter's age does not need to go to school full day. It is not good for them developmentally, nor is school meant to be a free babysitter. Why not look into Head Start or some other program in your area, where you can get her in without breaking any laws and cheating the system? If they find out, they MUST report it. And, children do talk...it will come up in little things. Sometimes, especially in the early grades, teachers make home visits as well. My sister did this-sort of. They moved during the school year, and she did not want to change her children because they had already had a traumatic year (a sibling died). There was a situation at school one day where school had to unexpetantly be let out early, and they could not reach my sister and of course they found out talking to my niece that they lived out of the district by then.
How do I prepare to become an IRS Enrolled Agent and open my own tax practice? I do not have a tax background.
It won't be easy. I believe the enrolled agent status was created so that retired IRS agents, who have a wealth of experience but do not have credentials as attorneys or CPAs, could qualify to prepare returns and represent taxpayers in audits. Some of the best practitioners fall into this category. Now let me tell you about my own experience. I am a lawyer, graduated from an Ivy League Law School (magna), and have practiced tax for over 30 years in famous law firms and CPA firms. I have been a tax professor in law schools and advisor to many of the largest corporations in the world. If I had walked in to take the enrolled agent exam cold, I would have failed miserably. I decided to take the enrolled agent exam a couple of years ago because I was moving to a different part of the country and didn't want to have to take the bar exam immediately. Fortunately, the IRS makes past exams available for candidates to study from. I quickly discovered that I didn't know the answers to a majority of the questions on past exams. This was because the exam focuses on issues that are important to individual taxpayers, partnerships, and small businesses (including S corporations), whereas my experience was in advising large corporations. There are commercial courses available that will take you through prior years' exams and give you the answers and, more importantly, the explanations for the answers. Many of the questions on each exam are repeats of, or variations of, questions on past exams, so studying in this way is very helpful. I took such a course on a self-study basis. In the end, I passed the exam with a very high score on my first attempt. However, I don't know how I would have passed, even with the prep course, if I didn't have a lot of tax experience behind me. Several people who took the exam at the same time I did were employees of a very large and well-known tax preparation company. My recommendation to you would be to go to work for such a company and spend a couple of years familiarizing yourself with the return preparation process and with the tax problems commonly faced by individuals and small businesses. They may even train you for the enrolled agent exam and pay for you to take it. When the time is right, then you may be able to buy a franchise from one of the big companies, or strike out on your own.