College/Career News

Parents of Seniors: Getting Your Graduate Ready for College

• The Right Stuff: College Packing Tips
• Engineer the move
• The checklist
• College Survival Skills
• Getting help on campus
• Roommate recommendations
• Why your child should get to know the faculty
• Tax Matters
• Tuition tax credit details plus link to key IRS publications
• The downside of borrowing from your 401(k)
• The Credit-Wise Student
  • Take charge of the cards
  • Credit vs. Debit
• Other Important Links
  • AP(R) Credit Policy
  • College Financing Calculators
  • Loan Center
  • Padres En Espanol
  • Senior Action Plan
  • Learn more about CLEP (the College-Level Examination Program, through which students can receive college credit for what they already know)
  • More College Board publications

RIT Offers Benefits and Services to Hearing Impaired Students

The Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, offers deaf and hard-of-hearing students many opportunities not found at other universities, including no application fees and substantially reduced tuition. With hearing-impaired students comprising 10 percent of the undergraduate students, RIT has made its campus fully accessible. Campus pay phones are equipped with TTYs, specially-designed dorm rooms include strobe fire alarms and doorbells, and visual warning systems are present in academic buildings. Academic support services are rich with services such as interpreting, notetaking, tutoring/advising and real-time captioning. Many more services are available as well. To more fully explore opportunities at RIT, visit the website. You may also chat with representatives online using AOL Instant Messenger, screen name NTIDatRIT.

Free FAFSA and Financial Aid Help

TERI College Planning Hotline. Many students and families worry that they cannot afford college, often not realizing that millions of dollars in financial aid is available through the state-funded Mass Grant program, the federal government, and colleges and universities. TERI, a non-profit organization in Boston, and Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC) in other Massachusetts cities offer free assistance with completing financial aid applications. Call TERI College Planning’s toll free hotline at 1-877-ED-AID-4U (1-877-332-4348) or get help in person—tell them where you live and they will refer you to a resource in your community. All services are free!

Selective Service Now Has Early Registration Option

WCS Senior guys, this is an important reminder that under federal law you must register with Selective Service within 30 days of your 18th birthday. However, the Selective Service System now accepts early submission of registration information by men beginning at age 17 years, 3 months. The agency holds your registration information and automatically enters the data when you turn 18. online registration is simple and fast. You may also pick up a registration form at your local post office. Don’t put this requirement off. Those who fail to register can be denied many important opportunities including student loans, government jobs and, in most states, a driver’s license.

For scholarship opportunities check out our Scholarship Watch page.
For summer opportunities, check our Summer Programs links.

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