College

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

by Ronnie Harper
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Career Review

• A Great Place to get up-to-date Career
  Information
• http//www.bls.gov/oco/

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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Why go to college?

• Average Earnings per week
• High School Graduate 600
• Some college hours 630
• Two year degrees 675
• Four year degrees 875
• Masters degree 1100
• Doctoral Degree 1500

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Why go to college?

• How going to college differs and some might say
  is better than high school.
• THERE IS MORE FREEDOM
• BUT THERE ARE ALSO
• MORE RESPONSIBILITIES
• DELAYED GRATIFICATION

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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Helpful websites for college bound students

• http//www.dhe.mo.gov/
• http//www.collegeboard.com/splash
• http//mapping-your-future.org/
• http//students.gov

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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How to find a college

• Talk to me
• Talk to people who have attended college and who
  may have the same interest as you.
• Look on the internet
• Google or Yahoo www.yahoo.com
• http//apps.collegeboard.com/search/index.jsp
• http//www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/
  rankindex_brief.php
• http//koshkonong.k12.mo.us

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How to find a college

• Characteristics to Consider When Choosing a
  School
• Establish Your Goals and Interest
• Review School Characteristics.
• Trade School versus College
• Public versus Private
• Two-Year versus Four-Year Program
• Graduation and Retention Rates
• School and Class Size

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How to find a college

• Review School Characteristics (Continued)
• Location (urban, suburban, small town, or rural)
• Distance from Home
• Religious Affiliation
• Ethnic Composition
• Single Gender or Coed
• School Setting (downtown or in the country)
• Areas of Study

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How to find a college

• Review School Characteristics (Continued)
• Course Offerings
• Facilities
• Campus Environment
• Housing
• Academic Rigor (How hard is it?)
• Social Activities and Clubs
• Faculty
• Admission Criteria
• Athletics
• Cost
• Financial Aid

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How to find a college

• Characteristics to Consider When Choosing a
  School
• Establish Your Goals and Interest
• Review School Characteristics
• Choose the Characteristics that Are Important to
  You and try to find the college or colleges that
  match those characteristics

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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How to apply

• Generally, most students apply to college in the
  spring before the fall semester in which they
  want to attend
• Rule of thumb the more prestigious the college
  the earlier you need to apply
• Be prepared to pay an application fee ranging
  from 15 to 100 or even more.

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How to apply

• Each college has its own admission procedure and
  policy
• Look in the counseling office or on the web for
  the colleges admission policy.
• For Example
• http//www.missouristate.edu/
• http//www.drury.edu/home/

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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How to read a college catalog

• Called a catalog and/or bulletin
• Most can be found online
• College catalog describes the classes you have to
  take to get a certain degree
• FYI
• Associate degree 60 hours (2 years)
• Bachelors degree 130 hours (4 years)
• Master Degree 48 hours above masters (2 years)
• PhD Doctor in Philosophy (4 years)
• MD Medical Doctor (4 years med school and 3 to
  8 years of internship and residency )

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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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How to schedule classes

• Credit Hours
• 15 credit hours means that you spend 15 hours a
  week in class
• How many hours do you spend in class a week now?

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How to schedule classes
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How to schedule classes
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College ScholarshipPresentation

• Topics for Today
• Why go to college?
• Helpful websites for college bound students
• How to find a college
• How to apply
• How to read a college catalog
• How to schedule classes
• Understanding Financial Aid
• Grants
• Scholarships
• Loans
• Workstudy

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Financial aid covers the education costs that you
  can't pay for. Most financial aid is awarded to
  families on the basis of eligibility or need
  which is determined by the school you attend
  based on information you provide about you and
  your family's ability to pay for your education
  costs and formulas set by law.

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Financial Need
• Cost of Attendance (COA)- Expected Family
  Contribution (EFC)_______________________________
  _____ Financial Need

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Lets look at the same student applying for two
  colleges
• College A
• Cost of Attending (COA) 10,000
• Expected Family Contribution (EFC) -
  2,000
• Financial Need 8,000
• College B
• Cost of Attending (COA) 15,000
• Expected Family Contribution (EFC) -
  2,000
• Financial Need 13,000

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Financial Need is determined by filing a
• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
• We will talk more about FAFSA at a later date but
  these are filled out after your parents get their
  taxes finished
• http//www.fafsa.ed.gov/

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Understanding Financial Aid

• In general, there are four types of financial aid
• Grants - given to students judged to have
  financial need
• Scholarships - based on merit or special
  interests
• Loans - Government-sponsored student loans are
  based on eligibility requirements and must be
  repaid
• Work-study - provides jobs for students with
  financial need to help pay for education expenses

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Scholarships
• Institutional - each college has its own
  scholarships (go online or call the financial aid
  office of the college)
• Local each community has its own scholarships
• Private/Corporate Citizens and corporation also
  create scholarships

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Scholarships
• Look at the list of scholarship resources
  provided
• Use the internet to search but be careful some
  sites want to charge you for the search. Use the
  free sites provided in your handout
• Different Scholarships have different criteria
  and application processes
• Some are just applications
• Others you have to write essays
• Sometimes you have be interviewed
• There are reference books in the library

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Understanding Financial Aid

• Helpful Hints
• Apply for as many scholarships as you can
• Pay attention to what is asked for in the
  application process
• Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines

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In conclusion

• The college experience is a marathon not a sprint
• The student who earns the degree is not
  necessarily the smartest person. It is the
  student who can endure without giving up who
  earns the degree in the end