City Counseling Connection -- Empowering Students: September 2013

Welcome!

We are Ray and Georgina, counselors at City. Week of Service. Teens show kindness. Auction raises $3M. Are you ready for online learning? Roadblocks to getting into competitive universities. Community Colleges Train Doctors. On-site interviews. A dying father. 10K tip. Job Interviews at City College. Budgeting. Colleges that change lives. Jobs. Saving lives.

The veterans page: Crisis line. Military benefits. Veterans Day. Suicide awareness. A surprised 8-year-old. Honoring heroic dog. Honorably discharged veterans shop tax-free. Forever GI Bill. Father takes care of 4 children. Integrate Marine Training? Robotic legs. Costs of war. Saluting a fallen soldier. 300K Lotto winner. Vets and painkillers. Vet resources. Grandmother of veteran's family deported. Housing the homeless. Veteran finds healing through adopting a cat. Wounded Marines help others.

Empowering students to fulfill their dreams through education.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

FYE

This "YouTube" video highlights the benefits of joining the First Year Experience program at City College.

Foster Youth Becomes Student Body President

"School was my home," Matt Walsh said. "I got good grades, I had friends there and it was where I got my meals. If I didn't go to school, I didn't eat, so I hated weekends and Christmas vacation." Cal State San Marcos Student Leader A Role Model for Fellow Foster Youth appeared in the "U-T San Diego" on Sept. 3, 2013.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Financial Aid

"College is expensive, and costs have gone up -- as much as 8 percent a year -- while we've suffered through a bad economy. According to the College Board, the average total cost for a student in the U.S. to attend a four-year, in-state public school in 2012/13 was $22,261. Out-of-state students paid $35,312 and the cost for a four-year private school was $43,289."

Find out how you can get money to help pay for college in Making College Real -- Financial Aid. This article appeared in the "U-T San Diego" on September 2, 2013.