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Transitioning to College

Congratulations on starting your college journey! This roadmap provides crucial guidance on navigating your transition to college. Discover vital academic agendas like orientation and registration, alongside financial literacy resources to make the most of your student aid. Learn about scholarship opportunities, maintaining financial aid eligibility, and developing a support system. Equip yourself with knowledge to thrive academically and personally while creating your own opportunities for success.

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Transitioning to College

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  1. Transitioning to College Revised 8/2013

  2. Roadmap to College

  3. Congratulations!!! financial academic personal

  4. Agenda

  5. Academic: On Your Mark

  6. Academic: On Your Mark • Orientation • Advising • Registration

  7. Academic: On Your Mark • Orientation • Advising • Registration

  8. 1079 Options: Registration • The college will assign you a student number. • Use the student number for registration and for communicating with the college. • If you are asked for your social security number, leave it blank or enter all zeroes. • Advisers have no right to ask you if you are a 1079 student, and you do not have to answer.

  9. Academic: Get Set

  10. Academic: GO! (to class)

  11. Academic: Sample College Calendar

  12. Agenda

  13. Financial Participate in College Financial Literacy: Stretching Student Aid workshop

  14. Financial: 1079 Scholarship Sites

  15. Financial: 1079 Scholarship Sites • LatinoCollegeDollars.org • Scholarshipsa-z.org • CollegeSuccessFoundation.org • Maldef.org • ca-core.org • Salef.org • scholarshipsforhispanics.org • migrant.net/migrant/scholarships.htm • TALK TO THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU! • CREATE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES!

  16. Financial: Credit Cards

  17. Financial: Maintaining Financial Aid Eligibility • File the FAFSA every year • Check credit enrollment requirements for your financial aid • Must be enrolled half-time to receive Pell Grants and student loans • Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) • Stay out of trouble with the law • Drug convictions • Incarceration

  18. Agenda

  19. Personal

  20. Personal: Finding Support

  21. Personal: Finding Support – 1079 students

  22. Review financial academic personal

  23. Resources • Other Workshops (usafunds.webex.com) • Applying to College • Paying for College • Scholarship Strategies • College Financial Literacy: Stretching Student Aid • Student Loans 101: Know Before You Borrow

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