Intro
hi this is JD with AZ College Planning
and I want to talk about application
season and financial aid, Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
Application Season
season application season is Now
application season started August 1st
while deadlines might be a few months or
more away it is important to submit
applications sooner than later
submitting applications earlier
demonstrates interest and increases your
chances of getting admitted and
increases your chances of scholarships
Application Process
the application process is this
immediately after you pay and submit the
college application immediately
immediately send an email to your
college admissions recruiter that says
something like this dear Sally Jones use
his or her name I would like to let you
know that I’m excited I just submitted
my application to your college I can’t
wait to be a student at your University
attached is a PDF of my resume sincerely
Sammy student include your full name
your address your phone number and your
email address the reason why we’re
including a a PDF attachment of your
resume is we want to do a little bit
more than what the average college, Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
applicant does and giving that resume
we’re giving the college more
information about from Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
Student Portal
you after applications are submitted
after the applications are submitted you
will get an email or a letter from the
college to set up your student portal
the student portal is your goto College
website page page that will let you know
about your status for that particular
College the student portal will inform
you of anything that was received or
might be missing please check your
student portals once every couple weeks
preferably check your student portal
every week you don’t want to miss some
important deadline or or forget about
something that might be
Update the College
required after applications are
submitted update the college on any
anything new send a one or two sentence
email updating the college about any new
accolades new Awards or anything that is
newsworthy that you want the college to
know about you let’s say you submit all
your applications by the end of
September then in October you get a new
job hey congratulations tell the college
about your new job then in December you
get promoted at your job to lead fry
technician I love that title these
things are not on your original resume
nor on your original application let the
college know about these new
things let’s say you break a new record
in the 100 you won the math decathlon
you go to the state and take first place
you got an A on a hard exam anything new
and anything newsworthy we want to
update the college by updating the
colleges with these new things you are
showing the college that you don’t have
senioritis especially Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
don’t do that and you’re
continuing to demonstrate interest it is
extremely important to continue to
demonstrate interest all the way up
through the end of your senior year of
high
Financial Aid
school financial aid season is coming up
just around the corner and financial aid
season starts o in October the CSS
profile financial aid form is going to
open in October and we a College
Planning will help you with the CSS
profile submit the CSS profile before
November 1st for the colleges that you
apply to under the early action or early
decision heading there is a fee to
submit the CSS profile it’s $25 for the
first college and $16 for each
additional college and that’s payable to
college board your student may or may
not have a few CSS profile colleges on
his or her list and I will submit the
CSS profile on your
FAFSA
Help can be had at Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
behalf also in uh coming up is the FAFSA
form the FAFSA is supposed to open in
October but according to the Department
of Education the FSFSA will open late in
sometime in December there is no
additional fee to submit the FAFSA form
and a calls planning we will help you
with the FAFSA and I will submit the FAFSA
sometime in December on your
Who Should Submit
behalf so who should submit the
financial forms well all everyone
submitting the financial aid forms is
another way to demonstrate interest it
is critical to demonstrate interest
demonstrating interest increases your
chance of being admitted and increases
your chances of scholarships I can’t
emphasize demonstrated interest enough
to prepare for the financial aid season
if you have not scheduled the parent
meeting please contact me as soon as
possible in the next few weeks, meet the best Scottsdale college planner, the best Scottsdale college consultant,
or so I
will send out an email with
instructions with on which documents
Which tax returns and other things that
will be needed to complete the financial
aid forms and I have a proprietary
secure website that will help get ready
for the financial aid forms I call the
program the FASA assist program as this
program will assist us with both the
FASA and the CSS profile and will assist
us on submitting these forms accurately
and on time so be on the lookout for
these important emails and an important
SMS text, from Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,
Acceptance Letter
messages after financial aid
season after the FAA and the CSS profile
Financial forms have been submitted your
student will get two notifications from
the college the first notification is
the acceptance letter the acceptance
letter may arrive as early as September
or it could be as late as March the
acceptance letter will state if the
student has been admitted or not and
sometimes the acceptance letter will
state if the college is offering you a
scholarship whatever is offered offered
on that acceptance letter is not the
final offer the acceptance letter also
reads like a letter lots of
Award Letter
words the second notification that this
student will receive from the college is
the award letter or the award
offering also called the award
notification the award letter reads like
an invoice lots of numbers the award
letter will also break down the college
costs and it will include the two ition
dorm meal plan anything else that the
college is charging it’ll break it all
down and the award there will also list
any scholarships or grants loans or
anything else that the college is
offering the
student before you make a college
selection decision first get the award
letters from each of the colleges that
your student was admitted to and compare
those in fact we’ll have a meeting we’ll
talk about the award letters when it’s
time to do that
award letters will be sent out after
both the CSS profile and the FAFSA
forms have been submitted and processed
this could be as early as January or it
could be as late as
March if you have any questions please
give me a call send me an email and I’ll
be happy to answering your questions
thanks from the best Scottsdale college planner, Scottsdale college consultant,