showed that kids who have a job in college who work fewer than 20 hours actually have a slightly higher gpase who don't have a job. >> makes sense to me, i have to tell you. >> keeps you organized. >> the social life can be so expensive depending on whether you're in a fraternity or a vor rr ti, the clothing bow yao buy, the beer you buy. how do you weigh that in? >> the national average for how much people spend, kids spend on their personal expenses is about $2,000 a year. but if you belong to a fraternity or a vor report ti, that can easily tack on $2,500 extra. you have to coordinate with that with your kids wp are you paying that or are they? food, the budget, dorm life is usually included in the price. if they're racking up pizzas every nigh, you have to talk about, wait, why are you doing this and let's make sure that that's an expense that the kid covers, not the parent. >> yeah. those conversations have to take place. i want to talk about credit cards for a second because you have a really interesting perspective on should kids in college have credit cards. now, as you know, the la

he's a 3.1 gpa and will be the first of his family to go to college. later at 11:00, our game of the week highlights. it's dunbar at eastern. for now, we are live at eastern high school. dan, back to you. >> when he gets to college, will they add on weight and make him a defensive end? will he stay at linebacker or move him to safety? >> i was talking to craig jeffries. he said he will probably stay atline backers. hes tough. he's strong. very quick. he's got a lot of strength. i think he'll do well in college at that position. they could. they could change him to defensive end. >> a lot of talent there. hakem dermish, thank you very much. >> good for him. >> bright future. li thank you, dan. 'rweoue. omlc up, fal tributes, how local communities and people all across the country pause to remember that moment. >>> we leave you with sounds and images from today's 9/11 services. >> just a moment to reflect services held here at home and across the nation. ♪ >> robert j. fairwalter. >> while there is pain in remembering the loss, tres sweetness in remember

how would a program be like the gpa help someone like this caller get from high school into college? guest: he talked about the need for differentiated approaches. he was able to continue on and that is something that we need to recognize. not every student is going to get to a diploma in the same way. we need a structure to recognize the need and get them there. he also pointed out the economic impact. why does he want to go to a community college? he understands that it will help them get a better paying job. of the 45 major metropolitan areas, what would be the economic impact to them if they cut their dropout rate by half? 12 cities were found that the wage growth alone -- one class of dropouts would put -- if you turned half of them into graduate would yield about half a billion dollars a year in additional wage income. it would greatly improve students' like him being able to go on to committee college in college. we wanted it to calculate the gain to the real-estate market. what we see is that you have 8000 more likely home buyers as a result of simply cutting the dropout rate

it's designed to help high school students with an average gpa make it into college. 9news now, kristen fisher is live in falls church with more. good morning, kristen. >> good morning, angie. we are up early with the raiders junior varsity and varsity cheerleading squad. we appreciate them being out so early. now eight of these cheerleaders that you see right now are part of this program. it stands for advancement via individual determination. today we are honoring the teachers who take these high school students and help turn them into college bound graduates. >> how many essay questions are there? >> it's the most dreaded part of any college application, the essay. >> college essay going to matter a lot? >> yes. >> it is going to sell you. you want to sell yourself. >> today, what to write is the topic of this class. >> it's a class that is geared toward getting them to go on to college, that's the goal. >> eric welsh heads up the program. tbl we do every year, we ask our faculty, who are some of the students who got more individual education attention, they would shine. six year st

lists 500,000 -- and they always say here's the gpa and here's the s.a.t. 3.9 and s.a.t.'s are 3,000. should students and parents be intimidated? should we go by that or say we're going to take a shot whichway? >> i think it's important to be focused on where you might have a possibility to get in but i would ask the question, what is the full range of grade point average that you admitted last year? what is the full range of s.a.t. scores that you admitted? if you don't fit in that average but you're in the range then your child could have an opportunity because most colleges are looking for students who will succeed in the future. >> also we have the s.a.t.'s coming up in october. so get on-line, get ready for that. >> that's right. >> take those tests. then just start searching. >> yes. that's right. do the homework. keep notes. plan. i think it's important for parents to think about that experience, too. they have to think about what they can afford. >> absolutely. you have to look at the price tag. >> you have to plan but it's not too late. you're one of the lucky one

. >> 3.9 average gpa. giddy-up. >> drop here for moody's. week. >> not a good week for moody and is one has to wonder what is left of their franchise if they don't have any credibility, people don't think they need the rating what do you get when you buy moody's. i wouldn't buy it. >> pop for natural gas, up 5% on this week, joe. >> absolutely. natural gas technically great rebound. as of 2:30 on this coming monday becomes a $5 commodity versus a $4 commodity. >> united health was down 11% on the week. steve? >> can anyone tell me that we're not going to reform health care in any way, shape, or form? no. so i'd stay away from the space. >> drop for a & f, abercrombie & fitch down 8% this week. >> the cute girl on your left told to you short that one, and it's going to go lower than this. you know i i just starting to go down. this one trades for 28 1/2 i think. >> the cute one on the left. >> cute girl, which is a little bit not respectful. >> i've been called a lot worse. i'll take it. >> we've got a pop here for guinness. you know, the bee

most of our publications are found on the gpa access website. but we also have materials on the national archives website, and we also posted certain material only on this web site. so to read all together, we have created this as a way to get to federal register publications of little more easily. today's topic is federal laws, and so we have a little error there -- a little arrow there. click on that and you get to the right place. a little bit about the office of the federal register. as you can see, it was founded in 1935. when you're behind the national archives itself. the federal register was founded in concept before it actually became a reality. after the infamous panama refining case, but where federal regulation was litigated up to the supreme court and then found not to actually exist because it had been amended out of existence inadvertently, and could not be found as an original document -- that incident spurred the american bar association, harvard law school and others to recommend that the federal register be founded. we have fb

. >> extracurricular, gpa. >> my daughters did, they started college at 15, taking site based classesschool my young eest attends is the future of education, some online learning and classroom collaboration. >> interesting. people can read more about it in your book, thank you for coming on and talking to us about it. >> thank you. >> let's go over to clayton on the show. >> i'm live for you right now in our kitchens at "fox & friends" right to us all the time and says it looks like a bathroom. it is not a bathroom. an update on the story we first brought you here on the show on "fox & friends" weekend. a father desperately trying to be reunited with his son after the boy's mother fled with him to italy. we will have the latest on this troubling case. general motors having new incentive to drive people into the show rooms. could mean borrowing a car for a little time. i'm in the kitchen, not the bathroom. i can prove it because there's coffee. we can prove it, there's coffee. this is my small-business specialist, tara. i know landscaping, but i didn't know how wireless could help my b

honor graduate and to recognize about 12% of our graduates as distinguished graduates based on their gpa and leadership contributions. anecdoteally, they looked at the program, and he said it w equal to her phd program. also, a stanford professor said we are perhaps the finest senior developing coue in the nation minus the finan. we teach economics but not finance. also during our industries studies anduring the field trips i've watched senior executives after being interviewed or discussed or having discussions with our icaf. these guys know more about us than we know about us, and our folks ask questions in a polite manner. so there is rigor. point three, we are still true to our charter. we have a small school, we're still true to being in touch with industry, but we are not adverse to change or growth. we are constantly growth. icaf provides education for today's environment. and chairman slton you always ask, can a graduate have a conversation with general marqhall? i feel after observing 6406 students, not all of them, but over 90% could not only have an conversation, they could un