Free help to get ready for college is available Saturday from Tulsa Community College.
Day of Vision is a chance for students and their parents to learn about college life, ways to pay for college and the skills to be successful after high school. Rebecca Marks-Jimerson with TCC said students don’t even need to be considering TCC to attend.
"Of course, we would love for you to attend TCC, but these are fundamentals that you need to attend college, university anywhere," Marks-Jimerson said.
Day of Vision is 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. tomorrow at TCC’s West Campus, 7505 W 41st St.
Costs are always a big concern, so they’ll offer help with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Marks-Jimerson said they know it can be complicated.
"So we try to put it in the simplest form as possible so that parents will understand it as they are filling it out for their young person," she said.
Only 53 percent of 2014 Tulsa high school graduates completed FAFSA forms.
It’s all useful information for ninth- through 11th-graders.
"But, you know, the parents may want to look at doing a career change or actually taking a class, and so we have geared a workshop toward that as well," said Marks-Jimerson.
