Cash for College Reflection

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Debin liu Period 7 Mr. Martinez Cash for college reflection A reflection for such excellent college field trip from last Wednesday. The first presentation we all participated in was the finicial aid section. Adviser was friendy enough to spent his time to explain the process of how financial aids works. We first learned that colleges offers several types of financial aids. Two of the majors types are grams and scholarships. From what I figured, Grams is free money without given it back while scholarship is the type of money with certain condition to qualify. People that’s eligible for scholarship if they do good on their SAT test or a low income household that receive public assistance. They also mentioned about student loan. Money that you can borrow or available money that they can lent you to help cover in college tuition, rents or any other expense. Once you have a job in the future they will start deducting minor amount of money from your payment. It’s like an debt you own along the way. California also has another program called the Cal Grant A. It’s for students who stays in local areas and have aleast a 3.0 GPA to apply for this award. The second workshop that I participated in was about Advance Placement College Exams. I was clueless for any placements test that are mandatory to take inorder to transfer or enroll to an university, so I decided to step in and find out what it’s this workshop all about. The majority of this presentation is about exam or tests to take after been admitted by a college, we may need to take placement test to determine our skill level of entering students. The represenative mentiones colleges uses several common placement tests and they are based on subjects like math, reading, writing. But in order to enroll to an UC, you might need to take the analytical/writing test, and doing well on the SAT will have a higher

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