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I’ll answer in one way, then post something related that I wrote as a comment. Two similar perspectives on the issue.I do a lot of teacher-parent-student interventions, because I can in my school. In my last school, nobody showed up during all of Parent Teacher Conference Day, so interventions would have been wholly unsuccessful. At that school, I had on my roster all the students who received the short end of the lottery draw for parents. One really good kid asked himself “Why am I at this school, and not the higher performing school nearer to my house?” He told me that his dad didn’t finish high school, and I realized that he was in that school/situation only because his parents lacked the resources to navigate him to a more successful school environment.Many of our interventions at my school were making sure a student attended school, had food, had clean clothes (didn’t live in the same outfit every day), and brought a pencil to school. I called about attendance when I received a new roster in January, and parents let me know their student dropped out of high school in October.I called a home one time over a minor issue, and the parent gave his daughter a black eye in response. Abuse as a result of teacher-parent contact is more common than you would think. Supportive, “old-school strict” parents can turn out to be abusers.Last year, all the teachers lied to one parent, they gave a rosy report to the parent whenever he came in asking about his son, and we discussed it and realizedwe did this because we all sensed that the student was being treated harshly by dad when his grades were low.It was a hunch, nothing reportable to Child Protective Services. Also, the dad was a far better dad than many other parents (if you overlooked the element of potential-but-unconfirmed physical abuse). Life is messy and awful, and I am not going to make it worse for that kid by staging a parent-teacher-student intervention, when I can assist that child in more low-key ways that will make the child’s life more pleasant.Interventions are also hit-or-miss. Some parents respond and begin helping their child. Most ignore the phone calls and emails. Then, they might contact you the final week of the semester with some mean-spirited words about how you are the reason their child is failing. Yes, because I contacted 10 times and you admit you received my emails, and you contacted twice about setting up an appointment you flaked out on. Expect a lot of cancellation on Parent Teacher Conferences. Also expect that they drop bombshell news on you. We were having a Parent Teacher Conference for a freshman, and then the mom mentioned the kids was 17. Our faces all blanched - there was no way this kid was going to graduate. He was a sweet kid, but not going to succeed though four years of high school, which would put him at 21. Earlier notification of that, and more training, and I might have been able to submit him to qualify for special ed to give him more help and keep him enrolled in school til 21 or 23.Parent-teacher interventions are worth staging though. Usually three or four kids on my secondary school case load are improved through parental training that occurs during the intervention. Better strategies are used at home, the child’s outlook improves, the parent becomes more joyful and less stressed over the child’s academics.These are hard to conduct, however, because speaking with a parent requires class coverage for at least some of the teachers involved.I did an action research results study on one of my email interventions to parents with underperforming students. Sent to the parents of eleven kids, those kids did a week and a half worth of work in the week after the email arrived. Normally they did a half week of work, so from a single email, they went from being behind to spending the next seven days outperforming the normal student in work ethic. Pretty effective.Unfortunately, a drawback to this quality interventions is as another teacher mentioned - new expectations. Students didn’t do their own homework, parents now expected me to send personalized homework emails or assumed that the child was fully caught up if they had no homework email from me.Some parents admitted to stop reading the emails, and others fussed me out for not informing them until the end of the quarter of an assignment or overall low grade, when my near-weekly emails proved otherwise.You just can’t win every time - there’s a reason that some students are struggling, and that reason is often their parents.Alright, this response to your question was about parent teacher conferences.Next, I have included a reprint of a comment I wrote someone today about student-teacher interventions regarding mental health issues (depression, bipolar, schizophrenia). His claim was that going through school his teachers never gave a “rat’s ass” about him. I feel for him, and these are my experiences on the issue:It isn’t that we don’t care [about the mental issues facing a particular student]. It is that we aren’t given the resources to do anything effective about it.I have students who are clinically depressed. What can I do about this, except send them to the guidance counselor who has 350 kids on her case load, or to the nurse? Or work with the kid one-on-one in my planning bell, while they miss out on some of an academic class? (I do that a lot, for kids who needed it.)I can’t stop class time because there are 25 other kids in the room. The twenty-five other existences outweigh the issues of a single student within the classroom. The one student in distress needs a counselor, not a classroom teacher.I have bipolar students. Rinse and repeat. Here’s your isolated space when you are angry and need to calm down. Here’s your pass to the —- Room, the place in school where you can work without getting annoyed by your classmates. If it’s real bad, let’s see if the counselor can see you.I have students with Passive Agressive Personality Disorder. Rinse and repeat. Please don’t disrupt the learning of others. I’ll try my strategies learned over years of experience, but I have all of a WebMD’s amount of training on this issue.I have students with Asperger’s. They are pretty low maintenance to deal with. Their interventions are simple. Except when the Bipolar kid desides to pick on the kid with Asperger’s, because that will them off. The student with Asperger’s can’t let it go, because the picking/teasing is an injustice and an irrational action. War breaks out in the classroom. Learning ceases. There still isn’t a place for either of these students to address their thought processes…All this is going down in the same classroom. Sprinkle in two students with ADHD, two IEPs (special education students with legally-required accomodations), and four kids who really don’t care about school, but I make them be successful.I would LOVE a mental health counselor readily available. Instead, there are plenty of times when mental health issues push our academics to take a back seat to crises. I am required to play an untrained counselor to my students, when I am simultaneously fulfilling my roles as untrained IT person managing 25 devices, a copier repair person, a customer service representative to parents, and fundraiser for the afterschool program that requires money collection. Did I mention that my main job is explaining high school math to 7th graders?Here’s an incident explaining why we need more mental health counseling in schools:A student cut themselves purposefully in my classroom, which meant that there were no school resources available an hour later for the student who had an anger episode in her Asperger’s, yelling F-bombs throughout the classroom and reappearing after being sent out.The next bell, I was able to serve as the “safe space” for the Asperger’s student since there was no way she could return to class. But prior, she had to wait in the hallway a half hour, because all our resources to respond were tapped. And the principal and teachers, they aren’t trained on mental health issues - we learn by trial and error. Also, she received a disciplinary referral punishing her because that is how the system is set up.We couldn’t provide adequate preventative counseling to that child, but we’ll as a system punish the inferior results that come from our lack of solutions to the problems our students suffer from.We teachers efer things to the guidance counselor (covering 350 kids, in charge of schedule changes and career readiness) or the school psychologist (covering 3,000 kids), but there’s nobody within a school whose primary job is to calm students down, give them life skills, and help them develop strategies for living in a stressful world. Last year, we had a built-in person who could play that role for students outside of her other job descriptions. She could focus on the one child, allowing us to teach the 25.But they cut our funding, so she’s gone. It is back to me dealing with 25 kids and three to four mental disorder at a time. We do our best, but it leaves kids with a lot of untreated issues. It leaves me with extra work on my plate, and I’m sending emails two and three hours after the day has ended. My lunches are sometimes spent counseling students in my untrained way.Access to mental health counseling for students should be available in schools if we as a society want to grow our children into healthy adults.

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Since the advent of all these student loan woes that affect the current workforce, I have advised to consider non-traditional routes to a career path. Having large loans is just not smart but also provides you with a poor return on investment for your education.There are various you ways to save, here are some of my ideas:Community college - Do you really need to get that degree from a more expensive university? I have met students from both regular 4 year colleges and 2 year community colleges and it is what the students do with what they learned that drives their success, not the type of school they came from.Scholarships - Meet with the Financial Aid office in the school that you are going to. Ask for all types of scholarships. There are some that are less known but any amount you can get helps. Some are private, independent foundations, such as the Kaplan Education Foundation and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which provide scholarships of up to $30,000 to talented community college students who wish to transfer to selective four-year universities. Don’t call. Go and meet them personally.Work - Your income is your greatest tool in not only paying for your education but also for improving your quality of life in the future, as long as you save and invest it properly. This may mean stopping for a while but it is only temporary.Go Fund Me - I’ve heard a lot of students that have gone this route and have succeeded in getting some funding. One of my patients with cerebral palsy just went off to college with a Go Fund Me “scholarship”.Study Abroad - If you are adventurous enough, how about getting that degree from a school in another country. Just make sure that they are accredited and that your credits will transfer to your country of origin. I am a graduate of one, my tuition fee for my last semester of Occupational Therapy school in the Philippines was $300. (This was in 1992).Live with your parents - This saves a lot of money for cost of living expenses. They may not get you the tuition fees and the like but at least they can offer their home for you to live in until you finish. That is a lot of help.Ask for it - Don’t borrow, Ask for anything that any family member or friends can GIVE. That way, nobody owes anything to anyone. Use the funds properly.Look for companies - Some sponsor and some reimburse you to study. Look for them.Military service - I had a therapy technician that went the Marine route and got them to pay for his Nursing school. Now he is a nurse in a big hospital in his hometown and loving every minute of it. He loved it so much, that he found another nurse as a partner.Focus - You are in college to improve your quality of life. Get rid of distractions and finish it as fast as you can. This helps you use the least amount of money.God bless you in your endeavors!!!

The FAFSA isn't as scary as it seems, but it's helpful to have the documents you'll need handy before you fill it out. It's available starting January 1 of the year you'll attend school, and it's best to complete it as early as possible so you get the most aid you'll qualify for. Be especially mindful of school and state deadlines that are earlier than the federal deadline of June 2017. Check out NerdWallet's 5 Hacks to Save Time on Your 2016 FAFSA. These are the basic steps: Gather the documents you'll need to complete the form by following this checklist.Log in to the FAFSA with your Federal Student Aid ID. You'll need an FSA ID to sign and submit the form electronically, and your parent will need one too if you're a dependent student. Create one here. Follow the prompts to fill out the FAFSA. This guide will help you fill it out according to your family situation. You'll be able to save time by importing income information from the IRS starting Feb. 7, 2016. Many families don't file their 2015 income taxes until closer to the deadline of April 18. But it's a good idea to fill out your FAFSA earlier than that. Use your parents' 2014 tax information to estimate their income, then go back in and update your FAFSA using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool once they've filed their taxes. More info here: Filling Out the FAFSA. 

A lot of things have already been said! But I will share a few more based on my personal experiences & visits to a few Japanese corporates!Gifting is a religion there. The companies overburdened with souvenirs. a) Tokyo Stock Exchangeb) CITIZEN Factory: A famous Japanese company for Digital equipments. They welcomed with Cap, good luck charms, pen etc.c) TCS Japan: Not purely Japanese but the Japanese branch of an indian company2. Heavy reliance on Seafood / Non-Vegetarian: Being an Indian vegetarian, it can be very difficult to survive in Japan without prior preparations. A funny incident happened when one of my friends asked for vegetarian options in a hotel to which the waiter replied if “Ohh, you are pure veg! So only egg or fish will do”!It’s just a huge tuna fish-head. Nothing worth seeing :P3. Strong focus on detailing In India, we don’t really know what detailing mean. Apart from warm-seater toilets and technologically advanced traffic system, even their menus are detailed for various spice levels.4. Tokyo Stock Xchange: They must be the only stock exchange who use opposite signs. The stocks which are improving are shown in red while the falling stocks are shown in green. They have interesting reasoning for that! Want to take a guess? Comment section, please!5. Indian Food: A little bit of patriotism is necessary, right! For a risk-averse person like me who doesn’t take risk when it comes to food, I searched for Indian restaurants. I finally stumbled upon a scene in a Tokyo Hotel which was mind-blowing! India-Pakistan rivalry is well-known but who knew the two flags can be seen together on the streets of Tokyo. This restaurant was run by Shaikh Sahab, a Pakistani who got so emotional to know that I am an Indian. He offered a delicious free tandoori chicken! What more can you expect? Much love, sir! <36. Cars: The most exquisite models of cars in any country. McLaren, Porsche, Ferrari etc. you name it!It was an extremely interesting country for me to explore! I wish you all the luck for the Tokyo Olympics 2020.Last but not the least, it would be a shame to not show the beauty of Tokyo and what their cleanliness is all about.I will keep adding !Thanks for reading :) . Have a nice day!

A few salient points:“I am an international student” → This will not figure into the equation at all. Harvard processes your financial aid application without regard for national origin.“my parents make together 80,000 dollar a year” → If that’s $80,000 USD, you’re past the threshold for “no expected family contribution”. Between $65K to $150K USD, families will be asked to contribute 0–10% of their income; that means (at maximum) you can expect an annual bill of ~$8000. Given the current sticker price $65K for the next academic year, yes, that means you will receive a substantial amount of aid.“500,000 dollars in cash which are their whole life savings” → this makes things slightly trickier, because only “home equity and retirement assets” are explicitly exempt in financial aid calculations. Though one can argue that the cash savings are your parents’ retirement assets, this will not likely be the immediate presumption - so you may see your expected yearly contribution be a little north of $8000. That said, the financial aid office does award aid on a case-by-case basis, and special circumstances like these should definitely be related to them (presumably in writing or in person once you get to campus).All things considered, you just don’t strike me as someone who will receive nothing in aid - and I think you’ll be surprised by how generous Harvard can be.

MIT is need-blind, but that does not mean free. Your parents will have to fill out the FAFSA. They will consider your family’s EFC and not modify it due to a family situation. Believe me I know. My ex-wife, a physician, refused to pay a dime for my sons to go to MIT (because all colleges were the same and they could go elsewhere for free). So I paid….MIT will not change the expected family contribution.In my experience, they will expect your parents to contribute even if they refuse. Otherwise every student applying would claim that their parents refuse to contribute.Now different rules will apply if you are over 24 or have lived solely on your own for a year and not been claimed as a dependent on any one else’s tax return. Then you can expect different treatment. Is MIT free, no. They will expect you to pay $6000 a year. Internships actually pay. My sons averaged $25,000 a year with $5000 of that being housing at the internship.