{"id":10208,"date":"2020-10-28T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=10208"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:25:13","slug":"get2college-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2020\/10\/28\/get2college-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Get2College Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For those of you who are interested, these are my notes from the Zoom with Get2College. They also have a lot of helpful resources on their website, if you want to look them up &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/get2college.org\/\">https:\/\/get2college.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaker: Tory Holloway&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; &nbsp; (contact info)&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tholloway@get2college.org <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When looking for your College Fit, remember to consider these:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2 yr&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; 4 yr&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Offered programs&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campus resources&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Affordability<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Size: student-to-faculty ratio&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Location and Housing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extracurricular Activities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Opportunities to help you decide:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be friends with\/get to Know the school recruiters (this one, in particular, can help you in so many ways later on. Like if the school you are interested in has certain scholarships or something, you can ask them about it.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Virtual College Fairs (a great chance to learn more about a school)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Campus visit opportunities.&nbsp; (whether in person, fly-overs, or virtual, it is helpful to visits schools in advance.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some Financial Aid plans:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outside Aid &#8211; scholarships from local support, like a bank, or scholarships from national support, like a food chain company.&nbsp; (you can check the scholarships on Get2College,)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">{Private scholarships}<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">College Aid &#8211; scholarships from the college itself<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal Aid &#8211; MTAG (15 ACT \/ 2.5 GPA), MESG (29 ACT \/ 3.5 GPA), HELP (20 ACT \/ 2.5 GPA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mississippi Aid &#8211; HELP (20 ACT \/ 2.5 GPA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>{You can only apply for scholarships if you are a Senior.}<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;ACT Prep resources:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/get2college.org\/\">Get2College.org<\/a> &nbsp;\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Get2College\/featured\">Get2Collage Youtube Channel&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACT Academy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Khan Academy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TIR (Test Information Release)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retired and old tests from a counselor.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Requirements for <em>some <\/em>public 4-yr Colleges in Mississippi:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3.2 GPA&nbsp; +&nbsp; CPC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">16 ACT &nbsp; + &nbsp; 2.5 GPA&nbsp; +&nbsp; CPC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">18 ACT &nbsp; +&nbsp; 2.0 GPA &nbsp; + CPC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take the ACT multiple times &#8211; then collages can calculate a SuperScore.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A SuperScore is when schools take your highest scores from each section and create a new score, forming the highest possible composite ACT score. (also applies to SAT)&nbsp; IT IS SUPER HELPFUL. SO TAKE the ACT A BUNCH OF TIMES!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this was helpful. If I missed a piece of information, or you have something that people could benefit from, please post it down in the chat below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are interested, these are my notes from the Zoom with Get2College. They also have a lot of helpful resources on their website, if you want to look them up &#8211; https:\/\/get2college.org\/ Speaker: Tory Holloway&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp; &nbsp; (contact info)&nbsp; tholloway@get2college.org When looking for your College Fit, remember to consider these:&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2020\/10\/28\/get2college-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get2College Notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}