Preparing for Higher Education
Published on Dec 01, 2015
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Outline
- What is Higher Education?
- Why prepare for Higher Education?
- How to prepare for Higher Education
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What is Higher Education
- Education beyond high school, also known as Secondary
- Colleges, universities, institutions, and career certification
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Why Prepare/Why go?
- It is a lot harder than high school
- What you do from the beginning counts.
- If you go to college, you gain transferable skills that can help you.
- Increasing your education, decreases you chance of being unemployed.
- Education increases your knowledge and your wallet.
Here, you need to make sure you explain that the transferable skills will help you in your career and in your life.
There will be a graph on the next slide, to show how much money a graduate makes. Also make sure I cite that this is from the US Census Bureau.
There will be a graph on the next slide, to show how much money a graduate makes. Also make sure I cite that this is from the US Census Bureau.
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Who is making the most?
How to prepare for Higher Education
- Academically
- Financially
- Career
- Where do you want to go?
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Academically
- Maintain a consistent GPA- establish grades that are college ready.
- Develop study skills-studying the material will help you retain more info.
- Manage your time-establish personal and academical time.
- Talk to counselors about graduation and college requirements.
- Be prepared for standardized testing (PLAN, ACT, SAT)
On the academic slide don't forget to make a card to tell people to take a college class that they are prepared to take a college course. College is not just another transition from high school, there is a lot more work that comes with it.
Financially
- Apply for Financial aid
- Apply for scholarships
- Look into Grants and Loans
- Talk with your parents about savings
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Where do you want to go?
- Look at location
- Public or private
- Class sizes
- Majors and Minors
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Career
- Know the career you want to go into
- choose the college that has your major
- Know how many years you have to be in school for your career
- Do you need any certifications or certain degrees for this career?
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The End
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