by Catherine Ferro-Manzanares, Washington University in St. Louis, 2025
Asking for a letter of recommendation can be intimidating, especially as a first-year. Most classes are larger, and there isn’t quite a strong faculty-to-student relationship, given that you’ve only known them for a semester, and for some, it takes time to come out of...
by Eyzel Torres, University of Illinois Chicago, '22
Financial aid can be scary to navigate, especially as a first-year, first-generation college student. My first experience with financial aid was filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as a senior in high school. Fortunately, there were...
by Adiba Hussain, Barnard College, '23
Letters of recommendation for any application provide insight into how others perceive you and how you present yourself to the people around you. It is important that when choosing a recommender, it is someone who knows you well and can speak highly and honestly about...
by Adiba Hussain, Barnard College, '23
Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Otherwise known as FAFSA. When I look back to high school, filling out FAFSA felt like this daunting task and scarier than applying to colleges themselves. What made it even scarier was that a lot of students tend to feel...
by Samuel Hayes, Northern Arizona University , '17
Applying for college is a really exciting and cool time. You are one step away from starting a new chapter in your life and being able to become more independent. You should be excited because all of your hard work in High School is about to pay off. However, it is...
