okay
so welcome seniors class of 2022
so today I wanted to take
the opportunity to go over
important information in the upcoming months
for the remainder
of your senior year so congratulations to
all of you were sitting in class today you
guys have made it almost
there graduation is only a couple of
the ways we just have to make sure that you have
it in you in the last couple months
to make it to that day and graduation okay
so just really quick I did
want to go over some some
things in relation to graduate
participation but also in
relation to transitioning from high-school
to college with her you will be attending a
2-year or 4-year because there's a lot of
important steps that need to be taken from
here from this date
February 4th all the way to your first day
in class in college and we want to make sure that you still supported
so that you don't
miss an important deadline and not be
able to make it and also make an important decision and
informed decision when you are
taking your College's okay so today we're going to go
over graduation requirements because of course
you need to make sure to be able to get give me the phone requirement
then I was going to go over
some important for into your application
process steps for going to offer
more information more information on financial
aid resources we are offering as well
as Community offering and as well as
how your counselors can support you in
the next couple of months OK Google
have time for a couple of
Sims and if not please remember that we
are available every lunch session or
remind or email okay
so again so mstma
graduation I don't have any information yet
I was hoping to get you were going to be able to share
some of that information out there still a lot of things
to be determined we still don't know if we're going to be in person
or person to be we
don't have information and we still don't even have a date or
a time so please hang tight and we
will get that information to you as soon as we have
one of the things
that we do want to let you know is
that if you received any
fail grades from fall semester if you have
any income pistos could potentially impact
graduation there will be no
graduation letters at santhome certified
mail in March they
will be again
and your counselor will be having that conversation with
you so if you're not on track to graduate because
of previous grade
either this fall or in previous semesters
you will be having a sit-down
conversation with your counselor we haven't done so already and
there will be a letter sent home and assume
that until we actually give you
the green light meaning like we tell
okay now you're on track for graduation that
will remain as a Anon Brad
a status okay.
I did want to share that we are slowly
getting information about
students being admitted to college so we want to congratulate
all the seniors you might have already been admitted
but we don't know so congratulations to all
of you guys just a couple of examples that we have here we
have sorry to our young ladies that
have been admitted to Fullerton Cal State LA video
I'm talking to Lieutenant but we're working on it and
of course we also have our young men that are getting accepted so
you may have been accepted you're probably
sharing that with your classmates and
your teachers but you have not sure that was the please come
to the call center and make sure you come
take your picture we're hoping to get all the pain you're
going to get your sticker the I got
in sticker and we also hope
to be able to ask permission to share
this with the community cuz we do want to make sure celebrate
celebrate your classmates
I'm just coming through that information how do you
share that information you can, until this or make
sure you fill out our
Google a duck that says
I got accepted and make sure you come and
pick up your your sticker so again
congratulations to all those of you who
have gotten admitted now some of
you may have gotten a knitted but our don't
know because you are not checking your portals
so we want to make sure we support you with
that and if you if you have any question
so you don't know where to find it please make sure
you reach out to your counter or even the peer
counselors that are serious part so
just really quick
I have been sharing this with bulgy
and remind but I do want to make
navigation because I want to make sure you understand
what we are asking
so they're there has been
some concern about students as far as like withholding
your graduation if
you don't complete some of the college requirements
so just to clarify there is no
way that we can withhold your graduation
you earned it you worked hard but we
are just asking is a certain number
of steps for you to complete so that you can
it clear to graduate too
open ceremony basically to get your cap and gown and
Beyond the clear and so these are just a couple
of things and it's basically to make sure that
you have a plan for after school that
you have applied to a two
or four-year college or trade
I want to make sure do to support with that too and
that you have support in being
able to afford that which is to financial
aid so our financial aid deadline
is coming February 24th at 10
in front of the line the main.
mine is of course March 2nd but we want to make sure to capture
anyone we missed to give it a window
of a couple of days so again I want to
make that clear we are not going to
withhold your diploma you worked your you
worked really hard to learn that
we just want to make sure you have a plan and with
that is again letting us assist
you apart of college letting us is such a
part of financial aid because many of you guys are eligible maybe
you just need to know how to do it and
that's what does s
the bottom half sphere is the five
steps to meet to be
clear for graduation from the counselors which is course you
have to meet graduation requirements which is 210
credits A through G you
have to update your call list on Naviance
you have to let us know which college you will be attending or
trade school and then you have to complete the
FAFSA or DREAM Act and there
will be a senior survey that they actually required by the district
on Naviance starting
my first case of pretty easy so we do
make sure we support you how can you get support
for this you can always
visit the mstma website
we've updated a lot of
resources there directly. Application
and of course come and see us at the magnet
office so we can help you out with that okay
so while I have everybody's
attention I did want to point something I
do want to make some important points
during this
Temptation because it
happens every year that unfortunately some students
because they don't check their emails they
don't create their accounts for the colleges
I applied to the mess I
don't really burn information and there at the key
cancel a really quick it
is very important that you check your emails from your
colleges daily some of
that also make sure you check your spam or you're trying to cuss
sometimes for whatever reason they might end up there
if they need Edition
information from you and if you don't do
it in a timely manner they do have the right
to counsel your application so make sure you
don't know how to start I'm come to the College
Center will help you how to do that okay you
must create an account or where they called portal
for every College creating
the portal does not mean you're admitted but that's
where you can find out if you are knitted
or if there's something wrong or
something missing from your application so
it's very important that you take that
your counselors are teachers cannot do that for
you is confidential information so
let us know how we can support you
by going. Next step
another thing to
students have the question
by when do I have to make
a decision for my college the
usual share
deadline is May 1st some colleges may have
a later deadline for mostly just
think about May 1st
wherever there are some
colleges that I need
you to possibly put in
an enrollment deposit for example
Cal State LA actually requires
a $100 deposit
I'm in order for you to save your your space
in the school so within
the next month if
you get admitted one of the things that
you will need to decide on is
what college are you going to be choosing
a factor that you need to know to
make that decision and
one of them is usually financial
aid like will they be able to
assist you to afford
the tuition and I'll talk little bit
about that we highly recommend the counselors
that you do not commit to
any college without having
an idea of how much it's going to cost your
family how much to support you getting from
financial aid but of course
will not be available until after you
fill out those two very important forms which is the faster
and the California Dream Act okay
so just something to keep in
mind there depending on the couch sometimes
there is an enrollment deposit
for example Chelsea Dale that's for sure $100
and some you
it'll actually be weighed you don't
have to pay anything you just say you're going there
is a physical but you would have
to push just to let them know and I
there are other a hidden
cop that you might have to
think about for example
there is something called a new orientation used
to know the
most of the colleges
and there is a fee for that usually
ranges about $50
and it is mandatory if
you don't attend even though you
had your enrollment deposit given
and you had everything else in order
they do have the right to pull your
admission so you have to
be very careful with colleges they
are very strict on their deadline so
please make sure you stay on top of all
your emails all the dumb
and again if you need support please
make sure you come and speak to your counselor another
thing to keep it
again to keep in mind as make sure you check your
tubliss or hold on
your own this portal
because again each college is a little bit different
each of them have a different requirement so
you want to make sure you stay on top
of that every year we have students
that do not get any
information on how much they will get the port
for their financial aid
because they have not followed
up with requests from the school okay
in relation
to transcripts final transcripts that are doing
July you do not need to worry about
the councillors will send that to you as
long as you have told us which
college you have decided on after March
1st and that's basically why
we include that as a requirement to care
for graduation in order for you to pick up
cap and gown you're going to need to have let us know where
do we need to send your transcript and then we'll
take care of the rest OK Google
call Jose are not requesting as a cheese a lot
of them are test optional and again
AP scores you only need to send now
if you need to me tonight to do Armand
which I don't believe was any of you but otherwise
you only spend them in May once
you have decided which will
you will be attending okay alright
what are the next steps for 2-year colleges for
to your college students now we can start applying to
community colleges they still require FAFSA
or DREAM Act as well and
then we are planning to possibly do a field
trip to elac which is our closest
a community college Pakistani to get information about
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formation on. To come now
one
of the things that we do you want to
try to make students have in mind is
once you step out of
high school and basically
everything in relation to education will have
some type of price tag sitting
in the class your books your materials
all that now comes with the price tag
it doesn't necessarily mean that you will have
to pay that's why there are resources
that can be available to you
through filling out these forms is
called the finance the FAFSA or the California
Dream Act
do you an idea of cost
for Community College per year can run every
anywhere between $2,000 to $3,000
again that's including bucks Cal
State University if
you live there
anywhere around 21,000 if
you just want to study in a year living at home it
could be as much as $9,000
you seized the same thing if you want to live on
campus if it's about this 33600
just sitting there is
thousand and Independence of course
price ranges however every
year we have to dance who tuition is fully
covered like they pay zero because
of again documents that
they've submitted through the Fast and the and the
so that's why we are encouraging everybody reply
even if you think you may not be eligible once
they tell you yes
you're eligible or not eligible then you can make a decision a
more educated
decision as far as if
that's cool is a good choice and
it won't be a financial burden for your family okay
now a
lot of people talk about okay so I
applied at 5 so am I going to get
money out by Dramatics I might get
am I going to get money that all depends
on what you become eligible for so
what you're doing at this moment by
filling out those application is
your giving information to
an agency FAFSA is a federal agent
and California Dream act as bait
agency with that information they
are going to put your card information
in the formula it's basically
family income household
size and they figure out
depending on that and cost of school of course
if you're eligible for free
grant I mean free free app which could
be grants or scholarships also
if you're eligible for work-study and Loan
so we cannot tell you what
may be eligible for until you fill out that after
that information but you could potentially
be eligible for all these things which
is state and federal Grant of
course for California Dreaming that you're only
be eligible for State Grant but those
Grant a previous student top cover
the entire tuition that's why I live
in California is actually a pretty good deal and relationship
financial aid merit scholarship that depends
on the school's you're attending Works Betty is
family income and then loan
weather and it really depends on your eligibility
and again you're not required
to take out loans this is
a resource you're offered for
me when I went to college and made
a big difference that's how I was actually able
to supplement some of my education but if
it does it's not a requirement it's
offered to you you could take it you don't have to but
just know that it is a resource that's available
okay so again how
do you apply these are the
you're going to be doing you don't have to do it
alone we have workshops every Wednesday
we have we're billable every lunch
if you're in the college class we've been helping
you out this entire time so again don't feel like
you have to do
it's laundering advisory I'm sure that you guys
can help each other out to so please make
sure you reach out so that you can be ready
for the February 24th
deadline so
what happened after you
so you're
going to get that email that says that you
submitted it if everything is good you're going
to get that email that says it's been processed and
then from there the
colleges that you listed will get yours
those start drafting a
letter where they're
going to tell you okay if you come to our campus this
is how much we can support you you're
going to have to do a a
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count for website for weapons as well so I can help
you manage your Telegram and again these
are the maximum amount that you can get
depending on your family income to
get Calle Grande for the Cal State to
get up to 5700
for the you see up to 12,000
on the private up to 9000
again this covers your full tuition depending
on your family income Cal grant
B the same thing they actually give
you a little bit more
but who determines who is eligible the
agency determines the who's
eligible so again they might say you're
going to cal-state you're actually we're going to put you
for tell Grandpa if you're going to
use see we're actually going to put you for granny
they will determine what you're eligible for and
for those students
who are undocumented are are
ab540 student you are still
eligible for a day if you stay
in California and all you need
to make sure you have done is been here in
California for at least 3 years have
no visas basically
you have no other document
that that has you went out and had a different
status and that you will attend
allergic Cascade or you see and
you just have to file an affidavit an
extra form that we will help you fill out so
again even students who are
undocumented if you stay in California
and you meet that criteria.
have your full tuition paid okay
so so far
4 M assuming
this is how many students have submitted
the FAFSA so we
have to 38 out of 100
17 now but
only 35 have had a successful
due process so there are three of you in
there which I will be following up with you that
something happened maybe something
didn't match like sometime
that don't match so we're going to follow up
to make sure that it gets processed because if it's not processed
your call just cannot give you
that financial aid offer
okay so that's why it's very important that you not only get
that email that says.
it was a minute but the one that says processed
so how
can you get support come
and see us on late start Wednesday come
and see us during lunch disco
today
we're having this presentation next Monday
we're going to see mr. would get a mystery Alaska we're going to go feed
the picture cost to help you next
Friday we're going to see mr. Lopez and Miss Munoz and
then on Monday the 14th 4 a.m.
please come
paired bring your parents 2020 taxes
if they file taxes if
your parents are not file taxes not a problem we
just have to go about it a different way
okay so that does not make you
ineligible to apply and what are the
animals that were talking about these are the documents
you
need your social security number if you're going to do FAFSA
your date of birth your
parents are security number that
if they're married divorced so just
how to document the document
also available on the MS GMA website and
come prepared on those days if
not during the workshops
that we have so we can get that application completed
there's also Community
Resources give
me news on the Community
Resources
Community
Resources if
you would like to attend
otherwise please make sure you
reach out to your counselor to get
and
okay
so going back to
some reminders make
sure again you check your email if
you missed deadlines they will cancel your application
and
we don't your counselors
and I recommend that you come into any college without
seeing a financial aid offer letter
but just telling you basically how much the school
the school's financial aid
I can support you and
this is what they will look like
so when you open your portals and
we'll look something very similar to the
ones on the right these are very similar
or very treacherous
the Cal State and Community College
the ones
on the left are characteristic
of the used he's so this is what
they'll tell you they'll tell you okay this
is how much according to the information
you've given us this is how much we can
offer you and financial for example
the first one on the left and I'll tell you grant
and scholarship which is free money this
is how much we can give you
you just have to add it all up
and then they also tell you what we can offer you
some of those two again that's completely optional you
don't have to take out long and
it'll tell you
how much you will owe
that is not covered through those
or work-study
or loan so
when you get this document
this is when either if you're
in college track to be having a conversation with your cars track
advisors if you're not in any
programs like phone surge caused this is
where your counselors come in we want to make sure to sit down
with you can also sit down with your parents so
we can explain what's all this mean okay
if you do not
get this document
it is because one
you're never going to see this if you don't do
it fast or DREAM Act or 2
there's a document missing so
basically the schools cannot come up with the
they cannot complete that formula
because they have missing information so
it's very important that in order for this
document to be produced
that you're on
track with all your toudouze don't
have any pending document otherwise
never seen it the more you delay
the closer to get
to the May 1st and where you'll have
to make a decision but again we don't recommend you
make a decision for any college if you don't
have this information because you don't
know if it's going to be a
financial burden for you and your family
for you'll be able to go to
that school cuz I'm fortunately some
student to get a minute to their dream
College she's great
but if it becomes an issue the
paper every year then
it could mean that they don't stay at
that college so we just want to make sure that you have all the
information to make your decision by
the May 1st deadline
one
of the things at that schools
are getting a little bit more strict on
is checking accurate
accuracy of
parent income If the parents file
income taxes
how do they do that so if you're
doing passing there's only applies to
they are going to ask you there's going
to be in during the parents financials
if you want to use the IRS
data retrieval tool
if you can use it and it's successful that
is a good thing because then
they're going to get basically they're getting the most accurate
information from the IRA
if you're not able to do this
a lot of times just been an a student a
student
and parent account still match not
because you're doing anything incorrectly but sometimes
there just are in the system
you will have to do in an something
and alternative press which is called a tax
transcript we want
you to get on that as soon as possible because a
tax transcript can only come
by mail most the time
and it takes about 5 to 10 business days
and if the school is
telling you you need to give it to us within 10 days
and you're late you're delaying
again please make sure you
get help from
either again your program or
your or your counselors
to
help you I get this sorted
out cuz it can make a difference between
between you getting that financial aid
word letter or not getting anything
at all and then possibly not being able to
attend to that college because you don't know if you'll be able to afford
it okay so this is very important
so
one of the thing
but I do want to talk about is something called
provisional or conditional and
missions which is very very important so
for those of you that are getting admitted this
moment congratulations that's great
news however
if you don't
do the steps that they're asking
you to do for example make sure you graduate
make sure you meet your
a through G requirements some colleges
even have a GPA minimum
I'm so if you get any disease or if you
drop way below if you read the
fine print and they do have the right to pull your
admission if you miss an important
Ally not on the document they do have
a right to pull your admission
I understand that nothing is a guaranteed admissions until
you're officially sitting on
your first day of college there's
always opportunities that if you miss
an important deadline if you fail
a class b a g if you fall below a certain GPA
it could get okay so
please make sure you say that's
why it's important that you stay on top of your
adult life and that
you make sure that you
okay I just realized
running out of time but just really quick you
guys can look through the presentation I'll
put it on the website sometimes
fees will be waived that means
you're not responsible you will be responsible for
the new student orientation
make sure you pay attention staff financial
aid award letters will only happen if
you have all your documents in order waitlist
very important if you're on the waitlist just
know that doesn't mean you're in you're
basically in limbo please make sure you
route to your counters about that again
these are just samples
of the to-do list on
some of the college's this
is how you'll know if you're a minute or not a
lot just a little green
marking your portals this is
how you will accept admission
just make sure you stay on top
of told to do those are very
important some
have a again
auditory virtual rotation fee and non-refundable $50
depending on the school
okay so just make sure you stay on
top you look at all the research that they have so you
can stay on top or just some
samples of how they keep
you an order and then again you're thinking
about living on campus please make sure you also read
the emails on housing and there's a
line and for community college students
were going to present and
the future is something about the cost promise
and again please reach out if you guys have any questions thank
you so much
thank
you