Land at a four-year school with your credits and your aid intact.
The community-college-to-university move, end to end: what the route saves, protecting your aid while you're there, choosing target schools by how they'll actually treat you, and comparing offers when the letters land. This module is still being built: the reading path below is live now, and the final (with its badge) is on the way.
7 guides · about 44 minutes of reading · 22 flashcards · final still being written
In order; each guide builds on the one before it.
Two years at a community college, then transfer up: a route that can cut the cost of a degree dramatically.
Financial aid isn't a one-time prize. Schools re-check your grades and completed credits every year, and falling short can end it.
Some schools admit by formula, some read your whole story, and some track whether you opened their emails. The differences are public, and they're worth money.
Aid generosity varies more between schools than almost anything else about them. Build your list around the ones that actually pay.
The same public university can charge you two very different prices, depending on where the state says you live.
The discount only pays out if your credits land. How to protect the math with transfer agreements, keep your aid moving, and grab the money that exists only for transfer students.
These letters mix free money and loans together. Here's how to see what a school really costs you.
Every definition you'll meet in this module's guides, pulled straight from the glossary. Flip through before the final: if a term feels fuzzy, the guide it came from is one click back up the page.
Still being written.
This module is still being built. The reading path and flashcards above are real and ready now; the final exam (and the badge that comes with it) is being written. Read the guides in the meantime; everything you finish counts the moment the final lands.