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All right, welcome everyone. We are just
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coming up at five o'clock now. Just
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wanted to make a couple announcements
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before we start. Today's training will
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be about additional forms. Okay, so
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financial aid is not the same at every
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single school. There are additional
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things that you have to do. We're going
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to be talking about why they're
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important and where to find them. Okay,
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to help me out, if you can put your
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child's grade into the chat, uh that
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will help immensely. and we will get
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started right away. Okay, so I already
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see some people put it in the Q&A. I
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also see some people sent it to me here.
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Just host and panelists. Again, whatever
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works for you, go ahead and put your um
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grade somewhere so I know who I'm
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talking to. Okay, so let's get started.
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It is April 9th, right? Man, the year
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has gone by so quickly, right? Um, and
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we are here at 5:00 PM Pacific time to
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talk a little bit more about financial
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aid, the ins and outs of different
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different pieces of the puzzle. Okay, so
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just to kind of talk about what we're
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going to be doing today, we're going to
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be talking about additional forms. Okay,
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we're going to talk about where they
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are, right? Why they can hurt me. Also,
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where to find them. Okay, now as far as
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general housekeeping rules here, right?
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Obviously, stay uh nice and respectful
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in the chat. There's uh lots of families
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here. We want to make sure that there's
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no mean things being said. Okay. Uh, we
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also want to make sure that if you guys
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don't get all the information in one go
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because I'm going to be throwing a lot
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of information at you, right? You can
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ask for the replay if you're in our
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Facebook group on our Facebook p uh
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we're going to make a Facebook post. Go
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ahead and respond that you want the
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replay. We'll send it to you. Okay. If
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you're in our coaching family, it'll be
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available in our p on our private
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YouTube channel in 24 to 48 hours. Okay.
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Uh, just a little bit about me. If you
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guys do not know about me, okay, I am a
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former college and law school admissions
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reader. I'm a former lawyer, right? I
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have helped hundreds and hundreds of
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students go to college and I've also
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helped those hundreds and hundreds of
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students save money on college. Okay?
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So, I want to be able to kind of help
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you guys. Right? Now, for those of you
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guys that are new to our Facebook group,
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Financial Aid Secrets, right? Uh we are
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actually part of a bigger organization
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called Eagle Lock. Okay? You can see it
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down at the bottom there. Right? We're
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formerly known as College Admission
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Secrets. So, we focus on both sides of
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the coin, right? We focus on getting
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your co. We also focus on saving you
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money once we decide where you're going
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to go. Right? Um so we talk about both
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processes there. Right? Now a lot of a
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lot of people have been asking what does
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your name mean because people don't
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know. Right? So Eagle Lock is actually
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just college spelled backwards. Right?
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Now that you know the trick right you
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will never be able to unsee it. But our
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name is Eagle. Okay. Now, I always start
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with a little bit of financial aid
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breaking news, right? Because I always
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want to kind of update people on what's
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going on in the kind of world related to
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financial aid, right? So, we'll kind of
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start here. Now, I've been showing this,
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right? California extended it deadline
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until April 2nd. That's their priority
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deadline for financial aid. Okay? Now,
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that's great, right? But that's the
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priority deadline. Even if you haven't
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filed yet and you have a continuing
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student or a soon to be college
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freshman, it's not too late. But before
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you fill anything out, you should talk
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to me so we can understand your
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situation. Right? Another thing, if your
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student is going to be a freshman this
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year and you are kind of a victim of the
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kind of January California wildfires or
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you're impacted by them, right? Please
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go ahead and reach out to the school
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that you're going to be headed to
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because a lot of schools are offering
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kind of financial aid readjustment for
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those families. Right now, for
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everything else, same thing, right? Oh,
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the US Department of Education is gonna,
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you know, be disbanded and this and
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that, so on and so forth. There's a lot
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of stuff that's still up in the air.
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Nothing's for sure yet, okay? With any
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new information that is there, I will
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let you know, uh, as soon as we have a
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training, all right? Uh, but everything
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right now is literally just rumors and
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gossip. We don't know what's for sure
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and what's not, right? There hasn't been
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kind of like the gavl hasn't been banged
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yet, right? So, we have to figure out
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exactly what's going to happen in the
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future. Okay, so let's get into the
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training. Again, my fair warning as we
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go into our trainings is this, right? If
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these are any of the things that you
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have thought to yourself about financial
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aid, my family makes a little too much.
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You've heard that your your neighbor's
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kid didn't get anything, you're not
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going to get anything, right? If you own
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a home or rental property, right? If you
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have saved for college and you don't
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think you need help, right? My question
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to those families is always, well, don't
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you want to try? Right? If someone said,
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well, you know what? if you give us a
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little information, we might be able to
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get you a discount on a new car you're
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buying, right? I'm pretty sure that most
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families would go for that, right? But
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when it comes to college and financial
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aid, a lot of families are just like,
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oh, no, we don't want to go down that
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road. And I'm not sure why, right? I've
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had a lot of consultations this week,
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right? And I've told our kind of, you
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know, the kind of new people coming in
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for consultations, hey, we have a money
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back guarantee. And a lot of them say,
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well, isn't this a no-brainer? And I'm
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like, yeah, it is a no-brainer, but a
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lot of people don't pull the trigger,
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right? Um, and so I said, "Well, maybe I
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need to do something different." So, if
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you guys uh want to give me some advice
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as to what I need to do different,
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right? Um, I can definitely kind I'll
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I'll take that advice. Um, you know, I
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I'm good with constructive criticism,
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right? Um, but because of our money back
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guarantee, the situation for most
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families is that we're going to try our
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best to get you money. If we can't, we
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give you your money back, right? If we
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are successful, that's great. We want to
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work together, you know, for the next
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four years to make sure that you en you
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get that money for the next four years.
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Okay. So, just keep that in mind as
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you're kind of going over the
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information that I give to you today.
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Okay. Now, a quick word from our
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sponsor. Okay. Eagle, like I said, is
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our parent company. Financial Aid
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Secrets is a kind of a component of
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that, a subsidiary, if you will. Right
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now, we actually had our first kickstart
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last week, right? We had students walk
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in with nothing, just some ideas maybe,
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right? Their activities written out. And
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we had students that left that day with
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very strong drafts of their UCPQs and
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their personal statements. Okay. Now, I
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guess my question to you is, how many
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juniors do you know that are already
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have solid presentable drafts, right,
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that they could technically turn in if
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they wanted to right now in April of
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their junior year? If you do know
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someone like that, well, that's great,
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right? But I I'm guessing that the
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majority of people do not know someone
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like that. Okay, so we are having our
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kickstarts in April, May, and June.
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Okay, that's our one-day Saturday event
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from 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. that is going
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to help your student get solid drafts of
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their essays out, get the content that
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they want out onto the page. Right. The
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second the second event that is part of
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our college app intensive is the
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accelerator. Okay, that is when students
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will bring in their drafts that they've
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been working on and try to get them to
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final form and even maybe work on some
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of their early decision or early action
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schools. Okay, now again we do have
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virtual or inerson options right for the
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kickstart and for the accelerator. So if
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you are interested, please visit our
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website at collegeappensive.com. I will
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also have a phone number that you can
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text later in order to get more
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information. Okay, but let's get into
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the training for today, right? And the
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tradition and the training for today is
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additional forms. Okay. Now, when it
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comes to kind of forms you need to fill
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out with for the financial aid process,
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FAFSA and CSS profile, those are two
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kind of forms that are more well-known,
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right? Uh and I actually have gone over
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those over the past kind of I think four
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or five weeks, right? So, I had a FAFSA
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day, I had a CSS profile day. So if
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you're if you are interested in getting
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more information about that, you can ask
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on the relevant posts in Facebook or if
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you're a coaching family, go to our kind
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of uh YouTube channel to watch those
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things so that you can go ahead and get
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access to what the FAFSA is about, what
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the CSS profile is about. But today
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we're going to be talking about things
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that are in addition to that. Okay, the
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first thing that I want to talk about is
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ID do. Okay, now you might call it I I
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don't know there people call it
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differently. Some people call it IDOC,
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some people call it ID do. ID do is less
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syllables for me. I call it ID do. Okay,
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but the first question that is kind of
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on everyone's mind is well what is it
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right? So it stands for the
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institutional documentation service.
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Okay, this is also run by the college
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board, right? This is a place where you
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might turn in different documents that
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colleges are requesting, right? that
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might include tax returns or W TWS or
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1099s, non-custodial parent waivers,
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right? Um other types of waivers, right?
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Fee waivers, right? Or letters that you
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need to get turned in. Right now, the
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one thing I will say and that you'll see
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as we go through the rest of this
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training is that not every college uses
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every system out there, right? So, you
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need to be very a like very kind of wary
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of what needs to get turned into what
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school, right? So, not all colleges that
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use the CSS profile participate in the
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ID do service. So, you need to be
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careful. I'll also have some examples of
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that later. Okay. Now, I also wanted to
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kind of tell you guys a little bit about
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school specific forms, right? Because
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again, like I said, each school has
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their own financial aid process that
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they go through when it is a like state
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school, whether you're in California or
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Washington or Texas or New York, right?
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Um it's very it's a very streamlined
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process, right? But when you're talking
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about, you know, some other schools like
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Michigan has a very kind of like a
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elaborate process you have to go
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through, right? Or private schools like
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USC that have a very elaborate process
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you have to go through. There are other
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things that you need to fill out. Now,
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the first question that you're probably
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going to ask is, well, where do I go?
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Right? We talked about FAFSA, we talked
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about CSS, and now we talked about ID
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do. That seems like three separate
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systems that you need to navigate
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already. Yes, that's true, but there are
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additional places that you need to look.
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And I wish that there was like, oh, you
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need to look at this one other site. No,
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unfortunately that is not the case,
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right? There is not an in easy answer to
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where you need to find these forms. The
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forms that additional like that specific
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schools will ask for, it might be
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somewhere like hidden on their website.
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It might be in in a corner of the
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student portal or they might send it to
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you via email that gets automatically
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directed to your spam, right? So, you
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literally have to be checking everywhere
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to see what additional forms they need,
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right? Um, so again, it might be FAFSA
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that they want, it might be CSS, it
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might be ID do, it might be something on
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their portal, it might be something on
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their website that you have to download
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and and print out and sign and turn back
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in, right? Or it might be something that
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they have attached to an email. So it
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literally can be anywhere. Okay, keep
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that in mind. Okay, now what types of
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forms might they ask for, right?
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Literally, they might ask you to fill
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out anything. They might have you fill
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out the FAFSA. They might have you fill
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out the CSS profile, but then they might
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also have you fill out the same
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information again on their own school
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specific form. Okay. Um, so just because
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you feel like you've done it before, if
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it doesn't show that it's completed on
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your portal, it has not been completed.
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Now again, there is a caveat, right? If
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you turn something in, usually it takes
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the schools anywhere between 7, 10, 20
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business days in order to update your
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actual portal. Okay? So keep in mind if
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you know you have turned it in, right,
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which is why you should have a system of
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kind of keeping track of everything,
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right? Then you should be fine, but you
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need to make sure that things are
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getting turned in. They also might ask
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for dependent verification forms. Okay?
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Now dependent verification forms, it
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sounds very complex, but it's just
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asking how many dependents do you have,
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right? So you have, you know, you know,
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mom, right? You might have dad, right?
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Um you might have grandparents, you
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might have other children, you might
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have aunts and uncles that you're taking
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care of. But the real answer to this
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question is and because we have a lot of
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families where maybe grandpa and grandpa
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don't live here but parents are taking
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care of them. If they're not on your tax
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return, the colleges don't really care,
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right? So while it is a noble thing that
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you are doing taking care of your
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parents that live in a different
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country, if they are not able to be on
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your tax return, then they don't care
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about that dependent unfortunately.
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Right? But there are other ways that you
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can show that there are additional
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expenses for your family through other
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kind of different things, right? There's
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also income verification forms.
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Literally, some of the forms are as easy
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as how much do you make, right? Other
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verification forms are how much do you
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make? Please input this number from your
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W2 or 1099 into this box, right? And
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it's very complex, right? What are your
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Medicare wages? What is this wages? What
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is that wages? Right? Um, so again,
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every form differs, right? And so that's
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why it becomes so complex, right? They
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also might ask for signed tax returns.
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Now, I know that there's a lot of
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families when we're working with
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families, we ask them, "Hey, I need your
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tax return." And they say, "Really?
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Like, my whole tax return? It's like 85
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pages." And I'm like, "Yeah, I need the
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whole thing." Right now, the digital
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world has made it very easy. You don't
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need to mail me something in a manila
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envelope. You can literally send me a
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PDF, right, through email, right? We use
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Dropbox. We found that it is the most
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secure. You upload it into our Dropbox.
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We have the information that we need.
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Okay? But sometimes schools need signed
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tax returns. Okay? They actually need a
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physical signature in black or blue ink
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on the front page of your tax return.
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Okay? Again, W2s and 1099s. They also
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might have additional information forms
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that they want from you, right? They
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also might have special circumstance
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forms that you can turn in, right? Like
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something I was saying before, right?
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Like if grandma and grandpa live
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overseas, right? um they don't have
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social security numbers so they're not
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on the tax return but our family sends
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them I don't know $2 $3,000 a month
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right so that you know they can kind of
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get the care and treatment that they
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need right okay well then that might be
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a special circumstance right also they
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might have appeal forms right if you
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feel like your situation calls for more
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financial aid you can always appeal
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right now are appeals always successful
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depends on how you write them right uh
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that is also something that we help uh
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in our kind of financial aid program
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Okay. So again, there's different types
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of forms that can be part of the
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process. Okay. Now, there is a little
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bit of a quicker way to find out if what
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a school will need and what will not
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need, right? So, there is a a website,
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right? It's run by the College Board
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again, right? If you go to your kind of
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Google search bar and type in CSS
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participating institutions, you will be
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led to a page that looks like this thing
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on the right. Okay? Once you're there,
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you'll a you'll be able to see which
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colleges use the CSS profile, right? And
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you can also kind of filter for other
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things that they have up there like oh
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do they accept CSS profiles for
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international students or do they also
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do non-custodial parent waiverss right
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um do they participate in ID do these
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are all different things that you can
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kind of filter for to see right now most
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of the time students it's not
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necessarily about the financial aid that
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the financial aid factors are usually
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not the reason why a student is applying
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to a certain college right but it's nice
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to see what might be required of you if
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you do apply to that school. Okay. Now,
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if you actually look here, right? Um
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these are kind of like the filterable
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areas, right? So again, you can look by
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state, you can look by kind of like who
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requires for domestic students, right?
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If you go like and you click on these
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buttons here, right? Uh here, if you
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click yes, then it'll show a list of all
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the schools in alphabetical order in the
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United States that accept that w that
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require the CSS profile as part of your
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financial aid. Right? If you click no,
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then it's a school that will just
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require FAFSA. Okay. Now, here's where
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it gets a little bit tricky and you need
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to listen very carefully. Okay. So, ID
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do that's where you turn in various
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pieces of documentation, right? If you
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go ahead and click here and then you
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click the schools that say, well, it's
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like, you know what, financial aid is
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like there's a lot of stuff. I want to
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do the like the least amount of work for
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financial aid and you want to apply to
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schools that don't require the ID do.
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That's great. Go ahead, find the the
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schools that are no, right? The problem
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is is what I just told you above, right?
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While they may not require ID do, they
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might actually require you to turn in
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forms on their specific portal, right?
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So just because they are telling you you
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don't have to do ID do for this school
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does not mean that they do not require
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additional information. Okay? So keep
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that in mind there. Okay? Again, I just
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reiterated what I said here, right? Just
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because they don't need the CSS or
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waiverss or ID do does not mean that
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they will not have additional
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information. You have to be searching
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everywhere the portals, emails,
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websites, right? Again, they purposely
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make this a complex kind of system
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because they don't want families to go
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through the process, right? They want
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you to give up, right? And not get money
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that you deserve. Okay? So, as part of
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kind of our program, we make sure that
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we are more stealthy than them, right?
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we are more you know cunning and clever
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than them right so that we do get our
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famil family's
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money now I also want to give you a
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couple of examples uh that show colleges
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that have their own systems right so
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just this year and obviously this
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changes every year because the the
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colleges are revamping their financial
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aid especially with the changes that are
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happening this year there's a lot more
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changes that could be coming down the
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road right but USC USC makes you fill
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out the FAFSA right which is like that
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gateway form So, of course, they're
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going to have you fill it out. They also
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make you fill out the CSS profile,
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right? And that in itself is a huge
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form. And then there are additional
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things that you need to do on their fast
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portal, right? Such as uploading your
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taxes, verifying your identity, right?
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And then there might be other forms that
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they want you to fill out on their own
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specific portal. Okay? So that's just
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one example of a school that uses the
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FAFSA, the CSS, but doesn't use ID do
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but uses their own portal in order to
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get that information. Okay, so that's
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one example. Okay, Baylor, right? Baylor
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is again their own specific way. Baylor
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requires the students to do FAFSA and
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then they have they don't require the
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CSS or ID do but they do require the
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student to upload documents through
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their own specific portal. Okay. So I I
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think you guys are starting to get like
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the the kind of the pattern here, right?
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They might require this, but they might
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not require this, but that doesn't mean
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that they they don't require this,
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right? So again, each school you have to
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look at very carefully. Okay, so that's
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Baylor, right? Another one, Princeton.
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Okay, this is the word one word like I
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feel like one of the worst ones, right?
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Princeton makes you do the FAFSA, makes
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you do the CSS profile, and then they
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also make you upload any waiverss and
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tax documents via their portal, right?
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In addition, they also have another form
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that you have to fill out in their
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specific portal, right? That is
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literally a copycat of the FAFSA and the
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CSS. Okay? I don't know why they're
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making you do things like seven times
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over and over again. Okay? So, these are
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just three examples of the like 3 to
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4,000 colleges in the United States.
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Okay, I'm sure there's a lot more crazy
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schools, too, right? But these are just
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some of the ones that I remembered from
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this past year that were a little bit of
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a pain to deal with. Okay, now quick
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takeaways here, right? Takeaways, right?
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This is not an uncomplicated process,
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right? You guys just saw a t like a tiny
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piece of the puzzle, right? the
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additional form section. And I'm sure
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that there's some people out there that
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are hyperventilating and getting
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anxiety, right? Um, but again, that's
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why we're here to help you guys through
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that process, answer questions if you
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guys have them, right? For families that
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I am able to help, I introduce our
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program. For families that I'm not, I
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give you guys some advice, tell you kind
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of all the information that I can, send
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you on your way. Right? Now, if the
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colleges, right, all use the same
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system, right? Again, I wouldn't be here
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to give you this information and tell
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you how complicated it is, right? There
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are too many families that fall into the
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like into these traps of like not
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knowing where to find things and then
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they forget one of the smallest details
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and then they're not able to get aid,
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right? So, the kind of biggest takeaway
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here is that you need to stay vigilant
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so that you can get aid. It's not just
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about, oh, I did the FAFSA, right? Yeah,
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of course. That's like the first form.
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But if that's where you stop, right,
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then at I'd probably
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say 60% of the colleges, you're not
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going to get aid because you haven't
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finished everything else, right? So just
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keep that piece in mind. Okay? Now,
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again, I also always like to tell you,
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hey, here are some things that you
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should be doing, right? So if you're a
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junior, it's more relevant. For younger
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ones, it's still relevant, right? But
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you have to remember that you need to do
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it in your relevant year. Okay? So first
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things, right?
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there's six days until you have to file
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your taxes, right? So, parents, right? I
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understand no one wants to pay the tax
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man, right? Um, but pushing it out six
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months doesn't really do anything any
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any good for you really, right? Unless
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there's like a complicated situation,
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right? So, if you are kind of like just
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deciding to push it off or like your CPA
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is too busy, can't get to your stuff, I
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definitely get it. But, if you're a
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junior family, you need to get it done
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before the summer's over. Okay? Uh, so
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get it done ASAP. Right now, for younger
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students, I actually talked about this
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last week, too. Right? But before the
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start of the financial aid process, so
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if you're a sophomore right now, it is a
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perfect time to make sure that these
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things are correct. Your name, right?
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Again, how your name is legally put into
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the kind of system into social security,
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right, is very important because if it's
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not able to match you on the various
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forms, then you will not get financial
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aid either. So, if you have a hyphenated
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name, if you have a space in your first
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name, those are things that you want to
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make sure that you check so that your
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first name is actually like a space B
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instead of A is your first name and B is
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your middle name, right? Uh, you want to
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make sure that your social security
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numbers are correct, right? Not just
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from your memory, but from your actual
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social security card.
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Now, because adults, you guys use it all
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the time. I'm sure you guys don't carry
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around your social security card. And
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it's obviously not something that you
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want to lose, right? I know mine by
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heart. I'm sure all of our parents out
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here know them as well, right? But
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students sometimes you think, you know,
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right? But I told the story, you know,
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last week as well. I had a family, their
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kid was 17. They had been using the
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wrong social security number for the
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last 17 years until we got to financial
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aid. And I was like, I'm not able to
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match up your student's date of birth,
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their name, and their social and and
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their social security number. Right?
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They went back and checked and they were
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one digit off. Okay? So,
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remember those things need to be
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clarified before we get to the financial
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aid time because I don't know if you
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guys have tried, but I lost my social
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security card once, right? It literally
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I I went into the social security office
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for like 5 days straight in a row
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starting at 8:00 trying to get a
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replacement card. And on finally on my
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fifth day of doing it, I was able to get
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it. But getting an appointment at the
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Social Security office is like the DMV
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seems like cake compared to that. Okay.
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So just keep that in mind there. Okay.
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Now, a little bit about why we're
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different. Right? Again, for a lot of
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different places, they have there the
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financial aid programs are there so that
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they can sell life insurance or
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annuities or this or that, some
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something else, right? We don't tell
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your student that they need to have a
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perfect GPA and a 1600 either, right?
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And again, we don't tell you that you
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need to apply to schools that you would
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never go to anyway, right? So other
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companies, they try to use different
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tactics to try to get you money. For us,
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it's about using our pri proprietary
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formula to try and kind of tell
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colleges, hey, yes, we make this much,
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but we need help because of this, this,
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and this, right? So, everyone has a
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different strategy that we can employ.
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So, even if you're a higher income
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family, come and talk to us. I'm sure we
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can find a solution for you. Right now,
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I always like to share our recent
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results, right? These are some of the
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recent ones from right now, right?
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Again, as more come in, as I have and I
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have kind of like consultations and
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meetings with our financial aid students
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kind of all through kind of April, so
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more should be coming in, right? But for
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this family, I was able to get them 30
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uh from this school from Chapman,
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$30,000 a year. Their family AGI was
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around 350. Okay. For this family, their
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family was around the 230 mark, right?
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and at uh this was specifically at UC
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Davis, but I was able to get them over
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$39,000 in money, right? That's free
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money, right? Not loans, not like money
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that needs to be paid back just in free
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money. So, they're paying about they're
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going to pay about roughly $2,000 a
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semester to go to UC Davis, right?
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Another family, right? I was able to
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find them different options. I was able
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to I was able to actually even talk to
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Baylor and get them more veterans
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benefits so that their family that makes
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around 437K a year, right? They're going
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to Baylor for basically half price.
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Okay, so these are some of our kind of
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like results from this graduating class
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of 2025, right? And so I wanted to share
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those with you as well. Okay, now again
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we want you to reach out to us, right?
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There's no harm in talking to us and
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then us realizing, hey, you know what?
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in your situation, I cannot help. Right?
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Um it'll take 15 minutes of your time,
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right? We'll have a good conversation
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and then we can figure out if I can help
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you or not. Right? If you are interested
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in talking to me about financial aid,
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you can text money to
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9497750865. If you're interested in our
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coaching programs, right, we have
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different coaching programs. Um and we
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accept students that are kind of
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entering high school, right? Um the
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earlier you start, the better. The one
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thing I will say about our programs is
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this. It doesn't matter if you join in
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11th grade or if you join in ninth
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grade, the price is the same. So, well,
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if you're looking for bang for your
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buck, join as your student is is
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entering ninth grade. Okay? But text
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college for info on our coaching
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programs also text college if you're
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interested in our college app intensive.
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Okay? Again, we are we just had our
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first one. Those students, right, every
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single one of them that was there on on
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April 5th, which is which our first
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kickstart, walked out with solid drafts.
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every single one of them. Okay, so we
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have another one on April 12th. I will
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be running that one. Okay, I am
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expecting that those students walk out
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with solid drafts and their anxiety
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level about the college admission
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process is going to completely disappear
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because they are light years ahead of
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their peers right now. Their peers,
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they're not even thinking about college
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apps right now. They're probably going
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to start thinking about it in August,
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but our students, they're going to get
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it done much quicker. Okay. So, I'm also
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going to put the link if you guys want
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to just book straight uh on my calendar,
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right? Uh I will go ahead and put the
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link for our financial aid consultation
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in there as well. But I did also want to
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open it up to questions. Okay. So, I do
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see a lot of families here, right? Uh I
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see actually I see a lot of families
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that are juniors, right? I see a lot of
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families that are seniors that I've
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talked to before, right? So, if you guys
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do have questions, more than happy to
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answer them for you, okay? So, go ahead
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and put them in the Q&A, put them in the
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chat. Uh, make sure that you, you know,
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take a screenshot, these QR codes should
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work, right? So, you can book your
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consultation with us, right? Again, a
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lot of the specifics will be things that
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we have to talk about in an actual call,
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right? If you if you tell me or like if
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you ask me a question, well, I make
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$400,000 a year. Can I get financial
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aid? My answer is going to be maybe.
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Right? That's why we want you guys to
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sign up for that consultation so I can
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get into the nitty-gritty of where that
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$400,000 is from. Okay? Uh, we have a
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question here. says, "For fall 2025, is
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it too late to do FAFSA for a UC
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school?" Yes and no. Technically, is it?
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Yes. Is it still feasible? Yes. Right.
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So, uh I would suggest that you sign up
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for a consultation ASAP. Right? If you
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can't find anything in the next uh
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three, four, like three, four days,
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right? Um please reach out to me via
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email. And you guys can reach out via
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email if you have a more specific
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question. And here is our
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email. Okay, I'll put it in one more
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time so that you guys can uh so I can
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find a time for you. Whether it's has to
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be super early in the morning or it has
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to be later at night. If you are a
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senior right now and you're kind of like
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struggling between decisions, right? Um
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most likely if you have filled out
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financial aid, there's not there's not
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much I can probably do for you at this
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point. But if you have not filled
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anything out, then there might be
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something that I can do. Okay.
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Uh, so we have a question here. It says,
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"We applied to UC Riverside and UC
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Merrced for the free per count me in
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program. Can you explain why these two
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programs are $6,000 more than the top UC
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campuses?" I am not sure uh what numbers
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you're looking at, right? But as far as
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the cost of a UC, right, what their kind
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of like online price is, I guess, right?
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um it's roughly around 45 to $47,000
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depending on the school that you're
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looking at. Right? So for instance like
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UC Berkeley cost of attendance for this
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upcoming year. Let's just take a look
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real quick. Right? Because I it's
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roughly so it's roughly around $45,000 a
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year. Right. Now, you also said
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UCR, and I'm guessing it's right around
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UCR is so they actually haven't put out
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their 2025 26
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um information yet. It's only up to
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202425, but for 2425 it was
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$43,63. So, it's going to go up a little
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bit. So, it's going to be around 46. So,
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I don't I don't really see the the
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$6,000 difference that you are talking
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about necessarily, right? It might be
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are you you might be talking about your
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net cost to attend, right? That might be
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different, right? But the overall cost
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of attendance for UCR versus UC Berkeley
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is roughly the same, right? Obviously,
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there's cost of like cost of living
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differences between like Riverside and
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Berkeley or LA and and and somewhere
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else. Okay. Uh yeah, if your net cost is
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different, that shouldn't be the case
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across the UC's. Your net cost should be
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roughly the same, right? So, you might
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want to talk to the financial aid office
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to see what's not there or you can
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compare the two offers and see what was
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provided at one school and what was not
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provided at another school, right? um
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the things that I believe in your
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situation that should be there the Cal
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Grant should be there right uh there
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should be some kind of middle class
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scholarship there but if there are
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university specific scholarships that
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were given to a certain student then
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that can differ by by campus but the
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middle class scholarship the the Cal
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grant those should be the same across
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the board okay but again university
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grants more specific things might be a
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little bit
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different
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okay all right other questions that I
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can answer for you
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Now we'll do last call, right? Usually
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that that prompts some questions, right?
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Um so last call for questions. If not,
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we'll close down again. I will make a
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post on our Facebook on our Facebook
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groups. Um so that if you are interested
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in watching this over again, you
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definitely can, right? But uh the best
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way to get in contact with us is either
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have a consultation or text with us. We
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can provide you a little information,
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right? So take a screenshot of this last
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page, right? Um and then we should be
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fine. Uh we have a question here and it
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says for FAFSA, what income is not
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considered?
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Nothing, right? So everything is
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considered as far as income. As far as
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your investments are concerned, it's not
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nec your your investment isn't income.
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It's the dividends from your investments
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that is considered income, right? Other
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income, right? But that is also
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considered as part of the process. So,
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that's something that we're going to
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have to look
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into. Okay. But I do suggest that if you
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have a senior right now, you haven't
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filed financial aid, you should talk to
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me right away.
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Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you.
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All right. So, I don't see any other
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questions. So, I'm going to leave this
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screen up just for a little bit so that
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people can take screenshots or, you
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know, scan it with their phone, whatever
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it is. Right. If you do have questions,
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like I said, I've also put the email
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into the chat as well. Go ahead and send
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us an email. I will also post on
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Facebook later tonight. Okay, so I hope
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everyone has a great rest of your week,
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right? It's getting warm where I am,
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right? Hopefully, it's warming up for
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you guys as well. And if you guys do
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have additional questions, please make
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sure to reach out. Okay, it was great
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talking to you. I will see you guys
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again next week. All right. Bye-bye.