How closely do students and parents look at academic details when choosing colleges...

My high school offers some summer math courses for Seniors. Each course is 6, three hour sessions. One is an Intro to Statistics, the other is Intro to Calc. The courses are free, and have no tests, quizzes,homework or grades. The idea is simply to expose them to some of the material before they take the actual course in college.

So after I introduced the courses to my Seniors, we went online to the sites of the colleges they’re pretty sure they’ll be attending, and looked up the course requirements for the majors they’ll be choosing to decide which seminar would be more appropriate for each individual.

Most of the kids had no idea that they could do that, or just how easy it was to find on most of the school websites.