Who can succeed in college?
About this video
College staff and leaders encourage students to dream big and see college as within reach. They explain that financial aid offices work to make college affordable for anyone, that first-generation students can succeed with support services, and that students should aim high and research unfamiliar schools.
You'll be able to
- explain the job of a college financial aid office.
- explain why first-generation and low-income students are encouraged to apply.
- describe advice for choosing which colleges to look at.
Key words
- Financial aid office
- The college office that helps students find ways to pay for college.
- First generation college student
- A student whose parents did not graduate from college.
- Support services
- Help a college offers, like tutoring and advising, so students succeed.
- Low income
- Having less money than many other families.
Transcript
- I think one of the fun things about being a teenager is that you dream big, right? You dream really big.
- It is the one thing that cannot be taken away from you and that's your education.
- It's a very real phenomenon that students can make such a difference in their immediate world by going to college.
- Our aim is to make college affordable for you to make that an option for anybody. We need people from all walks of life enrolled in college, so that's our job in the financial aid office to make those resources available to make it possible for you.
- First generation college students, I think, in many cases are unsure whether or not they can compete and they can be successful in college, but I'm here to say that every student can because we have the support services to make sure that you will.
- So you should aim for the stars. You should go for those amazing schools that you've heard of, but maybe know nothing about. You should maybe look at those schools that you've never heard of and need to do a little bit more research.
- If you're a low income student, if you're a first generation student and you feel like college is just such a foreign environment I encourage you to challenge that thought and to jump in because these institutions need your voices, they need your input and you'll benefit from the experience if you're an active participate in it.
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