• Seems like the amount college will cost• Actually, this is the number of minutes until
you have to pay attention to this carefully
1,577,000
Financial Aid
• Have to start paying attention in 3 years• FAFSA• Grant/loan/scholarship options galore
So . . .
• The better your student does, the more options for cheaper college you have
How Much Does it Cost?
• El Camino College: $1,500 tuition• Cal State: $7,000 tuition• University of California: $13,000 tuition• Harvard: $39,000
Yeah, but how muchdoes it really cost?
So is Harvard Really $40K?
Summer Programs
Summer Programs• Minds Matter
– Really low income (family of 4 cutoff is around $40,000)• Telluride
– For sophomores and juniors– Prestigious, spend a summer at a top tier college campus (
• College programs with themes, scholarships available– Brown, George Washington University, UCLA, UCLA Extension,
USC, BU, NYU (mostly arts), Barnard, • Boys State and Girls State• Cosmos Program – at most of the UCs. For kids interested in
math/science. Offers scholarships.
Enrichment Alley
• Enrichmentalley.com• Programs by state, subject area, etc.
What are POLs?An oral defense of a student’s learning