{"id":3282,"date":"2011-01-30T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2017-02-26T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T14:14:26","slug":"preparing-college-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/articles\/preparing-college-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for College? Use These Checklists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Preparing for college can seem overwhelming.<\/strong> We not only worry how we&#8217;ll afford it, but we&#8217;re not sure where we want to go, what we want to study, what paperwork we need to fill out or who we need to talk to.\u00a0 Things may become even more intimidating if we&#8217;re adults that have been out of school for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <strong>along with <a href=\"..\/..\/education\/paying-college-federal-student-aid\/\">providing student aid<\/a>, our federal government has put together a lot of resources to help us reach our educational goals.<\/strong> Below are <strong>college preparation checklists <\/strong>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/\">Federal Student Aid<\/a> program that will help you <strong>prepare for college no matter what stage of life you&#8217;re at.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>General<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/late-start\">Getting a Late Start? (Must Do List)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/adult-student\">Adult Students<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Pre-High School<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/elementary-school\">Elementary School<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/middle-school\">Junior High or Middle School<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>High School<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/9th-grade\">9th Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/10th-grade\">10th Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/11th-grade\">11th Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\/12th-grade\">12th Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Money for College<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/sa\/prepare-for-college\/checklists\">What is Federal Student Aid?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentaid.ed.gov\/students\/publications\/checklist\/FAFSA4CasterEarlyAidEstimator.html\">FAFSA4caster<sup>SM<\/sup>: Early Aid Estimator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for college can seem overwhelming. We not only worry how we&#8217;ll afford it, but we&#8217;re not sure where we want to go, what we want to study, what paperwork we need to fill out or who we need to talk to.\u00a0 Things may become even more intimidating if we&#8217;re adults that have been out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[45,59,68,82,158,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maysfinancial.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}