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PHEAA access partners urge students to use summer for college planning, FAFSA prep
Summary
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency access partners Tiffany DeVan and Sonia Mann McFarling advised students during a PHEAA webinar to use summer months for campus visits, career exploration, test preparation and scholarship searches, and reminded families that the FAFSA opens Oct. 1 and PHEAA’s statewide webinar series begins July 10.
Tiffany DeVan, a higher education access partner with the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), and Sonia Mann McFarling, a PHEAA access partner for Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks and Chester counties, urged prospective college students during a PHEAA “Higher Education Access Corner” webinar to use summer months to prepare for college admissions and financial aid.
The partners outlined a short, actionable planning list: visit campuses (in person or via enhanced virtual tours), explore careers and matching schools using educationplanner.org, prepare for standardized tests (SAT/ACT), build scholarship résumés and essays, and gather transcripts and recommendation letters in advance. They also pointed listeners to PHEAA’s webinar series (pheaa.org/virtual) beginning July 10 and reminded families that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens Oct. 1.
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