applying to call it can be tough and
especially if you are a first-generation
college applications so we have some
tips here for some ways to make that
easier on you the is this is coming from
doctor michelle hernandez
former assistant director of admissions
at dartmouth college and she has them
some advice
for some things that you can do to make
this admission process easier on
yourself and probably on your parents to
be here
when a hard things about this is that
you don't have your parents
or not in terms of their not
supporting you but
eight haven't gotten dundas themselves
whereas if your parents went to college
they kind of remember that application
process know about how to get
scholarships
if you're in the first line your family
going to college hingis unfortunately
you don't have that kind of knowledge
uh... being passed down from your
parents so one of the first thing that
you really should do is defined what
first-generation me
an obviously a
it's it's a little bit obvious in the
national center for education statistics
to find that as undergraduates his
parents never enrolled in any sort of
postsecondary education plan
different universities to find that
differently dot there's the certainly
ever since you're thinking about
attending look it up and see if they
have a definition of their own for
example at nineteen
defines first your colleges students who
will be in the prisoner family to
graduate from a four year college
family then saying life here parents
anti-community college about an
associates degree it's not often
but yea right exactly what so coughing
for a for a first generation student
uh... what hasn't yet and because some
universities want to to have a certain
percentage of the population be
first-generation students
making sure that that that you update
you fit under that could actually help
you i mean i don't know interns
availability scholarship lame agin
that if even if that is really for the
university there are polls certainly
scholarships at the airport in the
bathroom
uh... and so finding university where
you qualify as a person rations student
could be financially at your benefit
one thing that i i i wanted to mention
when you're talking about
i'd if we think it would help to have
parents who've done like the application
process who
who knows something about like targeting
like what what sorts of schools usually
applying for the commission b really
hard to get into that sort of thing
that's helpful and they're certainly
resources at most high schools for that
but
but it would help to have your parents
advising
but in terms of paying for school
i wonder how much the experience of our
parents actually helps anymore
because we're paying so much more
like the amount of loan signet take out
the difference or resources that you
have to look for for money from
but i remember ron paul at one point was
talking about his experience like
you know it's easy paying for college
library how touched
part time job paid for a while
yeah because now we find out how is
paper bodies that are not going pear
bills without collins by settling into a
great cities like ninety eight or
something so it's it's the couple
generations later but
anyway and user parents use you know
about what you can from your high school
but also online there's lots of
resources online including two at the
university
um... what i want to say it would work
it is really interesting about this
and uh... why uh... ferred perspective
first-generation students should
definitely for as much help as they can
as they have starts in here that in mind
blowing
it says here
first-generation students often need
support nationally eighty nine percent
of low-income first-generation since it
will be in college within six years
without a degree
eighty nine percent catholic and i uh...
when i went to college of lot of them
you know the people that i went from
high school with
qualified as low-income first-generation
students and there was a thing three
semesters in in five semesters in that
it was like armageddon and just people
leaving school
partially that indeed up trouble paying
for impartially it's just not
understanding what you're getting into
and so if you can't rely on your parents
to tell advise you and that you have to
look for other sources
more than a quarterly after their first
year which is four times the dropout
rate
and higher incomes second generation
students and sell ideas that there are a
lot of reasons behind out why dot could
be
financial reason
ends emotional reason
you know if your parents have in the
college maybe there's not as much
pressure on you as if there are and if
it means that you need to finish ur four
e agreeing to at least a bachelor's
degree
so this is something that you're really
taking seriously and that you really
know that you want to complete a four
year degree
he'll well armed going into it that
you're going to need to surround
yourself with a support system and that
universities do you have those support
systems
uh... the says many kadumi verses are
waiting with open arms and have plenty
of resources to help their first
generation susan that comes not only on
the you know pre admission application
process but also want to actually bear
there isn't risers uh... there's
counselor's there's people that can help
you know
and if you're in high school all
i'll add tens called represents an area
will come visit and when you know
they're coming to visit see if you can
schedule some sort of one-on-one
appointment with them to make yourself
known to them and to make yourself know
that you are first generation student
are looking for a little bit of extra
help and a lot of colleges
like while where the author of this
article uh... is from dartmouth have
syntax are programs that are definitely
really are going to helping you
get in warrant more then rather pierce
yet at the very least like go through
the list of the college is your flight
to go to their website just when their
search engine first-generation some of
them have
special programs in apartment set up for
outreach for that area so
at the vet that the like the first
glance attempted getting in that that
something at least i could help out
especially financially
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