Highest Degree provides training for school counselors and college access providers to better support students through the admissions and financial aid process. Our online professional learning builds knowledge and skills so that students can be guided through FAFSA Completion, Student Aid Report review, Financial Aid verification and more.
Paying for college
Exploring the college systems
choosing and writing the Personal Insight questions
virutal Career Day
Finding your path-Career Panel
Understanding financial aid
Becoming a competitive applicant
How to help your child to bcome college and caeer ready
Guide to choosing college majors
Application process
resume building
college application essay writing
Our Courses
Virtual workshops give access to experts that has over 25 years of student advising and working with first gen, at risk student population.
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Financial aid and College Affordability Planning - Develop skills and knowledge of the college affordability timeline and financial aid. Learning to take inventories of students' financial situation and specific needs. Be able to: Explain different types of fin aid and how to apply; identify characteristics of a financial safety school; access student's financial aid needs based on their college list and family circumstances
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FAFSA COMPLETION - Master the fafsa form by practing complex scenarios, learning to complete the financial section with confidence, and gaining best practices for working with speical student populations. Be able to: determine whether a student is considered indepent or dependent and whom to report as the parents; complete the final section for different family financial situtations; identify key resources to support accurate fafsa completion.
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STUDENT AID REPORT REVIEW AND VERIFICATION - Navigate students through the many steps and common challenges of FAFSA follow up includent SAR review and the complicated verification process. be able to explain differences between fafsa submission and fafsa completion; Identify and troubleshoot most common SAR notifications; Name best practices for helping students complete the verification process
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