Are You Really Ready for College?

Quality Inn & Suites, Eufaula, AL Event Description Are You Really Ready for College? This a 3 hour interactive workshop to prepare students and parents with proven college survival skills to ensure a smooth seamless transition to college. In this workshop, parents will learn important deadlines for financial aid packages, admission process and the Top 10 Scholarship secrets that every student should know. You will have the opportunity to meet Monchel Hollins, the Founder/Owner of Hollins Educational Services! She will share her heart wrenching testimony on how she survived college as a first generational college student. Although all odds appeared to be against Monchel, as a teenage mother, teenage married, in a poverty stricken environment she didn’t allow her circumstances to stop her from reaching her dream of becoming an educator. Monchel passionately admits that without individualized academic sessions with her advisor she would have been another statistic! Therefore, she vows to commit the rest of her educational career educating parents, students and school officials with her proven steps to survive college. As a college counselor at two different community colleges for the past 7 years, she will also provide you with the latest changes in higher education that might affect your family. You don't want to miss this! In this workshop you will learn: Topic: New Financial Aid Policies and Guidelines Session Duration: 30mins Topic: Effective Admissions Application Tips Session Duration:30mins Topic: Top 10 Scholarship Secrets Session Duration: 30mins Topic: Secret Services Offered on the College Level Session Duration: 30mins Topic: Parent College Survival Skills Session Duration: 30mins Topic: Student College Survival Skills Session Duration 30 mins You will have the opportunity to sign your child up for monthly individualized academic coaching sessions so that you and the student can boldly answer the question, Are You Really Ready for College? with a YES!