Posted on Sep 15, 2016
My son is about to graduate high school. Who on Fort Hood can help him find a college and figure out financial aid?
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My son is about to graduate High school and would he needs help to find a collage and financial aid. Can the Ed center on Fort Hood help him? I am deployed right now in Afghanistan so it's hard to help him.
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SSG (Join to see) Admittedly it's been a few years for me, but if he just started looking now, he may not get admitted until this winter or even next fall. You normally do this at the end of your junior year for four year programs. Service academies are further in advance.
Does he know what field he wants to go into? Has he looked at tentative careers? Recommend he uses the Department of Labor career tools to see fields and occupations by region/metro area along with career projections for growth/non growth. That tool has education, certifications, and skills needed for each field. Then you can pick programs, and then a school for admissions.
Regardless of whatever he picks, he will need to fill out a FAFSA, federal aid application. Even if he doesn't get any, schools use this as the basis to offer things and to determine family needs (what you'll finance). All this is on line.
Check this SFL TAP related thread. I posted a ton of links, among the is the DOL tool I mentioned. https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-are-recommended-resources-for-veterans-to-help-produce-the-best-resumes-possible?page=2&urlhash=1219448#1219448
Does he know what field he wants to go into? Has he looked at tentative careers? Recommend he uses the Department of Labor career tools to see fields and occupations by region/metro area along with career projections for growth/non growth. That tool has education, certifications, and skills needed for each field. Then you can pick programs, and then a school for admissions.
Regardless of whatever he picks, he will need to fill out a FAFSA, federal aid application. Even if he doesn't get any, schools use this as the basis to offer things and to determine family needs (what you'll finance). All this is on line.
Check this SFL TAP related thread. I posted a ton of links, among the is the DOL tool I mentioned. https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/what-are-recommended-resources-for-veterans-to-help-produce-the-best-resumes-possible?page=2&urlhash=1219448#1219448
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SGM Joel Cook
Surely you jest, easy and UT Austin never work well in the same sentence. Only the top 7% academics get in at all. My youngest son graduated third in his class and got a 100% free ride scholarship. Most people would say lucky young man. Even with a free ride scholarship it cost him over $1500 a month in room, board, transport and such. If he has a car he will get tickets. UT has almost no parking for students, so park off campus and walk to class. To top it off UT is one of the most liberal universities in Texas. My son was always liberal minded but, now he is died in the liberal wool UT style. Are you one of the liberal minorities in the military or are you just a little uninformed?
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