If you are able to break down the college's financial aid package effectively, it will end up saving you thousands in the long run.
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Martin advises parents to let their children go away. Let them grow and become mature adults and make your family stronger. College is four years they can never get back. Martin should know. He is the first in his family to go to college and he has a presidential scholarship to Villanova-3000 miles away but he is never far from his family in spirit or support.
Part I-Four Years They’ll Never Get Back-Let your child go ...
Great advice for honesty in UC essays. Adrianna, the first in her family to go away to college, talks about her UC essays.
Adrianna: What I Wrote About In My UC Essays
Michelle and Jennifer-both first generation college goers and Latinas, share why it's great to live in dorms and how they convinced their families to let them go away to college. They both attend UC Riverside and graduated from La Puente High School.