Episode 79: Preparing College Lists
This special episode is brought to you by a partnership between How to College: First Gen and First Gen Support.
With guest hosts:
Itzel - a freshman college student at Claremont McKenna College and Content Researcher for First Gen Support
Alex - a junior at Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas and editing intern with How to College: First Gen
In this episode Itzel and Alex chat with Yeleni and discuss the concept of putting together a list of colleges to apply to before preparing your college applications. They discuss various factors that are often taken into consideration to help ensure that whichever college on your list you end up at you will feel like it can be a right fit for you.
In this episode you will hear from:
Yeleni, a current college student at Virginia Commonwealth University, discusses the factors that were particularly important to them in deciding which schools they would apply to and which schools they could visualize themselves attending, feeling safe at, and knowing they had the support and community behind them.
Some of the most common factors to consider and discussed in the episode include location, resources offered, and financial aid options.
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