College Connections
College Financial Aid
Carol Handlan from Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) presented to York Catholic junior and senior parents how the financial aid system works. Click here for her informative Power Point presentation. You are welcome to contact Ms. Handlan if you have questions. Her contact information is in the Power Point presentation.
College/University Visitations
Many colleges and universities visit York Catholic September through November to make presentations and answer questions about their institution. Juniors and seniors must sign-up in their homeroom to attend these presentations. All presentations are held in the Career Room. The visits will be listed in this space when they are scheduled.
For off-site college visits or career shadowing:
See College Visit - Shadowing Request - Forms & Documents section.
Penn State-York Shadowing
Any junior or senior interested in attending Penn State-York campus should consider being a student for a day. Shadow a current Penn State-York student, attend classes, and eat in the Lion's Den Cafe. Register online at www.yk.psu.edu. For more information, contact Mrs. Castellanos in the career room.
College Board now has a NEW toll-free customer service number that students and their families can reach from anywhere in the US...it is 866-756-7346!
FREE SUPPORT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION & CAREER PLANNING
PHEAA's award-winning career and college planning website is designed to equip youth (6th - 12th graders) and adults with practical higher education and career planning guidance. EducationPlanner.org provides a variety of free services: Career assessments, national under-graduate and graduate school searches, trade and technical school searches, a virtual career center (resume and cover letter writing tools, job search strategies and interview tips, etc.), financial aid services including one of the world's largest scholarship databases, practice exams for the PSAT/SAT/GRE/GMAT/MCAT, and many other helpful features. In May 2005, Forbes.com voted EducationPlanner.org the best college planning website in America (www.Forbes.com/bow).
College Fairs For more College Fair information, visit www.pacac.org
Helpful College Links
Financial Aid Sites:
PA Institutions of Post-secondary and Higher Ed Map!
The map lists all degree-granting institutions approved to operate in PA!
The map may be viewed on the PA Deptartment of Education's website: www.pde.state.pa.us
click on yellow tab at top - Higher/Adult Education
click on left - Colleges and Universities
click on left - PA Institutions of Postsecondary and Higher Education Map