College Chronicle - Application process (and other stuff, I'm sure)
I may be making this more difficult than it is.
It would help if I were more organized.
I need to fill out FAFSA. but if I understand their website correctly, I wouldn't be able to get any assistance until July of next year. Can that be correct? If you don't go to school at the conventional time, you're SOL? That doesn't seem fair. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it. I hope I am. It's probably just my usual fears kicking in. It would probably help if I would get more than 2 hours of sleep at night.
So since I'm not a kid anymore, I have to find all my tax info. It's asking for what I filed for 2009. I hope I can find that stuff... Or, in the least, H & R will let me retrieve it from their site. Oh jeez. I'm going to have to try to remember my stinking password, again. I always forget it.
This COMPASS thing is making me nervous. Heh. Most everything makes me nervous, it seems. But, the COMPASS thing is what Cincy State uses to figure out what level a person is in for math, reading and other such basic things. Math scares me. I did ok with it, almost fairly well with it, until sophomore year in high school. That year I started going downhill and didn't stop. Ok, ok. I need to quit psyching myself out.
I hope this transcript thing goes better than the last time I attempted to get my high school to send one. I tried approximately 15 years ago to get a transcript. They sent me some single sheet of paper with stuff scrawled on it. I'm not sure if it was a communication issue or what but it was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. As a result, I'm almost afraid to ask them to send it to the college. But I will keep it in my head that everyone else from school got into college so I must have simply not communicated properly when I made my request. I wonder if it costs anything now...
Things to do to get this moving:
- Find tax/other info to fill out FAFSA
- fill out FAFSA
- take COMPASS test
- get Eastridge to send the transcript
But all this will go on hold for the moment. I'm tired and I need sleep. I will probably need to watch the Beive today/tonight.
PS - the amount of choices in the world is overwhelming...
It would help if I were more organized.
I need to fill out FAFSA. but if I understand their website correctly, I wouldn't be able to get any assistance until July of next year. Can that be correct? If you don't go to school at the conventional time, you're SOL? That doesn't seem fair. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it. I hope I am. It's probably just my usual fears kicking in. It would probably help if I would get more than 2 hours of sleep at night.
So since I'm not a kid anymore, I have to find all my tax info. It's asking for what I filed for 2009. I hope I can find that stuff... Or, in the least, H & R will let me retrieve it from their site. Oh jeez. I'm going to have to try to remember my stinking password, again. I always forget it.
This COMPASS thing is making me nervous. Heh. Most everything makes me nervous, it seems. But, the COMPASS thing is what Cincy State uses to figure out what level a person is in for math, reading and other such basic things. Math scares me. I did ok with it, almost fairly well with it, until sophomore year in high school. That year I started going downhill and didn't stop. Ok, ok. I need to quit psyching myself out.
I hope this transcript thing goes better than the last time I attempted to get my high school to send one. I tried approximately 15 years ago to get a transcript. They sent me some single sheet of paper with stuff scrawled on it. I'm not sure if it was a communication issue or what but it was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. As a result, I'm almost afraid to ask them to send it to the college. But I will keep it in my head that everyone else from school got into college so I must have simply not communicated properly when I made my request. I wonder if it costs anything now...
Things to do to get this moving:
- Find tax/other info to fill out FAFSA
- fill out FAFSA
- take COMPASS test
- get Eastridge to send the transcript
But all this will go on hold for the moment. I'm tired and I need sleep. I will probably need to watch the Beive today/tonight.
PS - the amount of choices in the world is overwhelming...