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FAFSA, CSS: Financial Aid
California CollegesPaying for College California College News If you are concerned about paying for your child's college education, remember this: Your tax dollars at work. Earlier this year,Gov. Brown signed Part I of the Dream Act, which gave illegals the right to apply for and receive private funding for college educations from institutions in this state Two weeks ago, Gov.Brown signed Part II of the Dream Act. This means that illegals can receive public funding for their college educations. This includes free money such as the Cal Grant program, which provides thousands per student, based on need, and the Pell Grant, the Federal version the free money for needy students. This is taxpayer supplied money. Currently, the bill says that illegals cannot apply until after California citizens have been served. There is never any money left over, so soon we will see either a very quiet end to that provision, or a system of quotas required of the lenders in the distribution of taxpayer goodies like the Cal Grant and access to the other public funding sources. For a few years now, we have generously provided free college tuition to illegals wishing to attend college here, as they do in seven other U.S. states. If a citizen of another state comes here to school, they are required to pay a hefty tuition fee, nor can they apply for such generous programs as the Cal Grant. Illegals are given free college tuition. Tuition at the University of California is $30,000 per year. Meantime, Brown declined to sign the bill that would roll back Affirmative Action in this state, in opposition to the overwhelming majority who voted to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. An article in the Daily California says that Brown is in favor of ending Affirmative Action for college admissions, but is waiting for the outcome of a case currently awaiting decisions by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Welcome to California Colleges.Interested in the public California Colleges for the fall of 2011? 2011: The University of California, and the Cal State University, Applications, will be on-line on or before 10/01/11. The application essay prompts for the UC system are found in the applications instruction booklet. Grades and test scores are still the most important part of your application. The UC system looks for four to five AP classes on a high school student's academic record. Check out their website for complete preparation information.
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The Common Application (Common APP), used by ~600 private schools College Consortiums in California Besides the College Partnerships listed here, all the University of California Campuses, and all the California State University Schools participate in agreements within the systems. These allow cross-registration and cooperation between programs.
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Search All Colleges in the U.S. FeesFee increases at the University of California What those sometimes violent UC protesters do not mention, is that it is the taxpayers who pay for 70% of their education. An individual student at a public university pays, at most, about 30% of the cost of his or her education. The taxpayer, and grants from government and businesses, pay the rest. Therefore, what these protesters want is for the (overburdened) taxpayer to pay more for the cost of the students' education. In addition, studies of the groups of protesters show that many of the protesters are not students of the University.
Pets and CollegeA Moral Note Please. When you arrive at your apartment at the beginning of the school year, DON'T go to the animal shelter to adopt a pet (usually a kitten) unless you are planning to keep this pet for its lifetime. Students frequently provide indifferent care for the animal during the year, perhaps not even spaying or neutering. Then if the animal has kittens, and you may find equally indifferent homes for them, or let them lose around your apartment to fend for themselves. They are left to roam and be killed, abused by others, or killed by animals or cars. In addition, they reproduce, over and over. More sad, homeless animals that will only live long enough to reproduce. AND, at the end of the school year, you leave the animal to fend alone at your apartment complex. Or perhaps, you shove the pregnant animal outside, thinking it can fend for itself. (It can't.) As a Humane Society volunteer, I cannot tell you how awful this is, and how irresponsible and cruel this is. BY THE WAY: If this behavior describes you: DON'T tell people you love animals, because you don't. IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED, GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO THE ANIMAL, and its litters, that YOU WILL BE NEGLECTING/ABUSING/ABANDONING.
Minority Students
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