All the reasons why I'm always begging you to consider going straight to four-year college/university from high school...

Hi CHAMPS Family,

If you know anything about me at all, you know that I am continually trying to persuade every single one of my students to plan on going to a four-year college or university straight from high school...that is, if it's even remotely possible.  I do realize the fact that some kids can't do it for a number of reasons, and in some cases, community colleges offer specific career training (for example, firefighting) that is nearly impossible to find elsewhere. 

Parents, unfortunately, the current state of affairs that now exists within our community colleges means that they don't generally offer the same educational experience you may have enjoyed some 10 - 25 years ago.  For the last couple of years, I've been looking for a definitive piece of writing via my own internet searches that succinctly describes the current state of things within community colleges...and I've finally found it.  Accordingly, here's a link to a very recent New York Times article that I strongly urge you to read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/education/24community.html

Best,
Anne C.

Congratulations Class of 2010!!!

Hi Everyone,

I am so proud of our current seniors!  Check out the great colleges where they've been accepted this year: 

CHAMPS’ COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES, Class of 2010 As Of June 1, 2010


American University, Washington, DC

American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA

American Musical and Dramatic Acad., Hollywood, CA

Baylor University, Waco, TX

Boston University, Boston, MA (5)

California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA (4)

California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo

California State Univ.-Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA (4)

California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA

California State University-East Bay, Oakland, CA

California State University-Fullerton (4), Fullerton, CA

California State University-Long Beach (4), Long Beach, CA

California State University-Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA

California State University-Northridge (27), Northridge, CA

California State University-Stanislaus, Turlock, CA

Chapman University, Orange, CA (2)

Columbia University, New York, NY

Concordia University, Orange, CA

Drew University, Madison, NJ

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (5)

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL

Emerson College, Boston, MA (3)

Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT

Goucher College, Towson, MD

Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

Hiram College, Hiram, OH

Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (7)

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI

Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (2)

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (3)

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

McDaniel College, Westminster, MD (2)

Menlo College, Atherton, CA (2)

Mills College, Oakland, CA

Mount St. Mary’s College (2), Los Angeles, CA

New York University

Newbury College, Boston, MA

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (2)

Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK

Otis College of Art and Design (2)

Pace University, New York, NY

Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Prescott College, Prescott, AZ

Reed College, Portland, OR

Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (2)

Ripon College, Ripon, WI

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (2)

Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT

San Diego State University (5), San Diego, CA

San Francisco State University (9), San Francisco, CA

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Santa Clara University (3), Santa Clara, CA

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Seattle University, Seattle, WA

Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (2)

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM

St. Mary’s College of CA, Moraga, CA

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Suffolk University, Boston, MA

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (3)

University of California-Berkeley (3)

University of California-Davis (2)

University of California-Irvine (3)

University of California-Los Angeles (3)

University of California-Merced (3)

University of California-Riverside (5)

University of California-San Diego (4)

University of California-Santa Barbara (5)

University of California-Santa Cruz (4)

University of Denver, Denver, CO

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

University of La Verne, La Verne, CA (4)

University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (3)

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (2)

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA (5)

University of Texas, Austin, TX

Utica College, Utica, NY

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Webster University, St. Louis, MO

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Whittier College, Whittier, CA

Willamette University, Salem, OR

Woodbury University, Burbank, CA (2)