{"id":115,"date":"2004-08-06T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T21:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2004-08-06T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T21:58:36","slug":"college-trips-now-often-replace-summer-vacations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/college-trips-now-often-replace-summer-vacations\/","title":{"rendered":"College trips now often replace summer vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Schackner, Amy McConnell Schaarsmith in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For legions of families preoccupied with their children&#8217;s college choice, summer vacation has been supplanted by what might be described as a triathlon of academic sales pitches, family stress and fast food.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that one need not tour a college to get admitted, and it&#8217;s hardly a pivotal factor in most admission decisions. But many colleges do at least consider who bothers to show up &#8211; as many as 44 percent of them do, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling, which recently surveyed almost 600 campuses.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxstudio.com\/shns\/story.cfm?pk=EDU-COLLEGETRIPS-08-03-04&amp;cat=LS\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Schackner, Amy McConnell Schaarsmith in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: For legions of families preoccupied with their children&#8217;s college choice, summer vacation has been supplanted by what might be described as a triathlon of academic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}