Understand Your Financial Aid Package

by I'm First Administrator

This article is published in the 2017 I’m First Guide to College By Bob Giannino-Racine Congratulations, you’ve been accepted to college! Now comes the hard part of figuring out how much college is going to cost and how to pay for it. Following are some tips to help...

Paying for Your Dream School

by Shaun Devlin

When I was applying to college, I rarely worried, “Would I get in?”; the real question was, “How am I going to pay for it?” Luckily, most colleges are determined to make sure that all accepted students will be able to afford it through several avenues of financial...

Home Sweet Dorm

by Shaun Devlin

Has it really only been four weeks since I got here? Though Freshman Orientation week ended merely three weeks ago, I feel as though I have been on this campus for months. The obscure names of each building are immediately recognizable to me, I haven’t even glanced at...

7 Days Left to Apply for the CSO Opportunity Scholarship!

by Cara Martin

High school seniors, could you use $1,000 to help pay for your freshman year of college? Or better yet, could you use $1,000 every year for the next four years to put toward your college expenses? If so, keep reading… Class of 2010, YOU’VE DONE IT! You’re almost...

Big Bro

by Duylam Nguyen-Ngo, The University of Virginia , '12

I must say from the get-go I never really had a “mentor” or someone who helped me along the college process, at least not in the strictest sense. And this is true for many first generation students. We just don’t have anyone who takes our hands and...