Speaker 1: And to invite the community out because it's a good
Speaker 1: time to ask questions, just general financial aid related questions,
Speaker 1: or how do I complete the papsa anything like that.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, financial aid is something that a lot
Speaker 2: of folks are concerned with when they have students and
Speaker 2: who are maybe juniors or seniors in high school. They
Speaker 2: realize all of a sudden, my goodness, my kids got brains,
Speaker 2: my kid's got potential. Wow, okay, we might want to
Speaker 2: fight at college here how do we do this? And
Speaker 2: there are so many parents who are in this for
Speaker 2: the very first time, and maybe they've never gone to
Speaker 2: college or attended a university. You're even at training school.
Speaker 2: So this is like a whole new world for them.
Speaker 2: Is that why this night exists?
Speaker 1: That is it's actually interesting because our director of admissions
Speaker 1: is going into this process herself. Her son is getting
Speaker 1: ready to graduate, and so she's like also so at
Speaker 1: OAKWU in admissions oversees Chloe and some of the other
Speaker 1: counselors there, but she's like, oh, my goodness, I need
Speaker 1: this information as much as just the community, because how
Speaker 1: do I pay for college? Where do I look for scholarships?
Speaker 1: How do I apply for the pelgrant or maybe I
Speaker 1: need to take out some loans. So this night we'll
Speaker 1: answer a lot of those questions. How and where do
Speaker 1: I even start?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Chloe, you just wrapped up being a student. You just
Speaker 2: graduated May all right, and you've already been working in
Speaker 2: the admissions office prior to graduation, but now you're full
Speaker 2: time A little bit of a different thing here. What
Speaker 2: was it like from a students perspective going through this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy. Had I started this four years ago,
Speaker 4: started with FAFSA and everything like that, and honestly, it
Speaker 4: was a nightmare. I didn't have anything like a FAFSA
Speaker 4: night or anything like that to really guide me in this,
Speaker 4: and my parents were like, I have no idea what
Speaker 4: this is.
Speaker 3: So once I got.
Speaker 4: To college, I talked to financial aid. We got through
Speaker 4: the fastest stuff. But yeah, I mean if we had
Speaker 4: a resource like this when I was in high school
Speaker 4: going into college, it would have been a world of
Speaker 4: a difference in the whole experience.
Speaker 2: Wow, I can imagine. You know, we're we're going through
Speaker 2: this period of time with a lot of folks who
Speaker 2: now have graduating seniors. Y can give me a lifeline here,
Speaker 2: you know, And this is the lifeline. Now where are
Speaker 2: we holding this on the campus?
Speaker 1: So we are holding this. Do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about where we're holding it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can.
Speaker 4: We're going to be in the Chapel, which is you
Speaker 4: can't miss. It is the first big building once you
Speaker 4: get on campus. You're just gonna go on campus and
Speaker 4: whatever you're coming, it's.
Speaker 3: Like that huge building we're gonna be up.
Speaker 4: You can either go through the top entrance or the
Speaker 4: bottom entrance and there'll be doors. It'll be greaters to
Speaker 4: be like, hey, you are in the right place. No leave.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there'd be people. There's gonna be snacks and drinks.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what time we opening the doors.
Speaker 1: We are opening them at six o'clock and we're actually
Speaker 1: encouraging if you're a parent, you're somehow related to a
Speaker 1: student becoming a student, potential student. Maybe you're a current
Speaker 1: student somewhere else and you're just needing more information. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're a counselor at a high school or over at
Speaker 1: Tri County Tech, anything like that where you're dealing with
Speaker 1: students who might be graduating. This is also we also
Speaker 1: have a special counselor corner for them so that they
Speaker 1: can get resources that they can take back to Central
Speaker 1: or to the high school or anything like that that
Speaker 1: they can actually have conversations with their students to give
Speaker 1: them directions. So good, we're going to be kind of hitting.
Speaker 3: Up counselor for the counselors.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly doing our best right now.
Speaker 3: This is an interesting process here.
Speaker 2: I remember that my parents, of course, they never went
Speaker 2: to college, but I was a a fellow who got married,
Speaker 2: I guess, right out of high school, and then decided
Speaker 2: I better go to college. You know, straight a's aren't
Speaker 2: going to do me too good, you know, just sitting there.
Speaker 3: And I did. And it was my father in law
Speaker 3: who attended. He was a music professor and.
Speaker 2: He said, he you don't know what you do and
Speaker 2: I said, nope, I haven't a clue. And he walked
Speaker 2: in and he did a lot of the talk, and
Speaker 2: then he did a lot of everything there to get
Speaker 2: me and just all taken care of. And he said,
Speaker 2: you won't have to worry about too much until you graduate.
Speaker 3: Then you have to worry about a lot. Yes, and
Speaker 3: he was right, but it was manageable. And that's what happened.
Speaker 2: It was all manageable, and you got to go in
Speaker 2: but ready to receive all this information and also to
Speaker 2: be patient enough to kind of breathe and then really
Speaker 2: examine it.
Speaker 3: I guess because it's going to be a lot of information.
Speaker 1: I understand it is it is, there is a lot
Speaker 1: of information. I will say our job as financial aid
Speaker 1: at OAKLU is to help make the process as easy
Speaker 1: as possible for the students. I'm sure most people have
Speaker 1: heard about the FATS of fiasco for twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty five and how there's been a lot of flitches
Speaker 1: because they've been working through redesigning the FAFSA, and the
Speaker 1: overall idea is to simplify it, and for most people
Speaker 1: they did simplify it. I actually went through the FAFSA
Speaker 1: just to see what it was like, and it was
Speaker 1: I completed it in like five minutes, and I thought,
Speaker 1: did I miss something. I don't have a student that
Speaker 1: I need it for. I just wanted to see what
Speaker 1: the process was like. But then you have others who
Speaker 1: are maybe have more challenging situations for sure. So our
Speaker 1: job is to help students through the process to make
Speaker 1: it as simple as possible. Because we're going into they're
Speaker 1: looking to open up the new FASA for the twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty six school year, and we want to make
Speaker 1: it as seamless as possible for most students. It is
Speaker 1: a simpler process. There are less questions on the FATSA
Speaker 1: than there's ever been before, so and then financial information
Speaker 1: is gathered from the irs, so there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of need most of the time to go find your
Speaker 1: taxes you know that you might have somewhere.
Speaker 3: Well, I've done that before with the first six kids.
Speaker 1: Yes, so hopefully it'll be a simpler process. But that's
Speaker 1: what we're there for, is to help through the process
Speaker 1: and to we do it all the time, but we
Speaker 1: understand the families. This might be the first time they
Speaker 1: have somebody going through the process, or maybe they've gone
Speaker 1: through it once or twice, but we deal with it
Speaker 1: every day, and so we're there to help handhold as
Speaker 1: much as we need to and do as much guidance
Speaker 1: as we can.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got a question for you being an
Speaker 2: envisions counselor what's it like seeing these fresh priests, pre
Speaker 2: freshmen coming in going What do I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah? How do I do it?
Speaker 4: Honestly, sometimes I chuckle a little bit because I was there.
Speaker 4: I mean We've all been there, you know, when you
Speaker 4: start something new and it's just kind of like, you
Speaker 4: know what, it's gonna be okay, but I know that
Speaker 4: you're really nervous right now, you know. I just kind
Speaker 4: of sometimes just want to hug and be like, you know,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be okay, Like you don't have to be nervous,
Speaker 4: like you know, fresh the nerves. The nerves are good though,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they're normal.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: If you're not having a little bit of butterfly activity,
Speaker 2: you ain't a live Yes, so they do calm.
Speaker 3: Down, yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: After they are here for about a week or they're
Speaker 4: in conversations with you, they're like, oh okay, Like sometimes
Speaker 4: people just build things up in their.
Speaker 3: Head, but most of us do. Yeah, it's a human Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's yeah the unknown for sure.
Speaker 2: And then once you do a little bit of know
Speaker 2: and then you can exhale.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's like okay, a little.
Speaker 3: Goes a long way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we're going to be doing tomorrow night
Speaker 2: with this very special night and again tell everybody exactly
Speaker 2: what to expected, what time, and everything else like that.
Speaker 1: So the doors will open at six o'clock on oakwu's campus.
Speaker 1: The address is twenty two to oh one Silver Lake Road,
Speaker 1: so come up. Like she said, the chapel is right
Speaker 1: there on Silver Lake. You'll see a big admission sign.
Speaker 1: There's a parking lot up top, but if there's no
Speaker 1: parking spaces, just park down below when there's an entrance
Speaker 1: down below. It will actually kick off at six point
Speaker 1: thirty with the talk of all things financial aid. We'll
Speaker 1: go for about about half an hour with slideshow presentation,
Speaker 1: that type of thing, take notes, we have water pins,
Speaker 1: all those kind of things, and then we'll let everybody
Speaker 1: meet the financial aid team. My assistant director Amber will
Speaker 1: be there, My Financial aid counselor Robin will be there.
Speaker 1: AJ who's our financial aid processor, will be there. They'll
Speaker 1: be part of our panel for or the FAQ session
Speaker 1: at the end. So we will present a little bit
Speaker 1: that direction, but then we'll open it up. So if
Speaker 1: you have questions, come with your questions, write them down.
Speaker 1: We are willing to answer anything. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be related. Like we said, this is strictly for the
Speaker 1: whole community to come out. You might be going somewhere else,
Speaker 1: but just want answers and that's what we're holding this
Speaker 1: nice so.
Speaker 3: You're blessed to be the host for this, and like I.
Speaker 1: Said, i'll be speaking to so I hope that's okay
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: You will be.
Speaker 1: Oh and there will be cookies afterwards, so stay for
Speaker 1: the cookies and are if they pre register I believe,
Speaker 1: do they get in.
Speaker 3: For some drawings? Yes, I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe we're doing some giveaways.
Speaker 3: Did we just go to your website and go to.
Speaker 4: U yes, I think on the missions there's a link
Speaker 4: to sign up to pre register.
Speaker 3: All right, well, very good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I want everybody to make sure you get
Speaker 2: to that as soon as we're finished with the program exactly,
Speaker 2: and then get that all taken care of.
Speaker 3: Some of you can multitask, but I've seen most y'all.
Speaker 3: It's it's one at a time.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's going to be great, great information. And
Speaker 2: I know that you too, and everybody with your team
Speaker 2: put a lot of hard work into this, and it's
Speaker 2: it's gonna be uh gonna be interesting. I'm going to
Speaker 2: go in there with a lot of parents, uh tomorrow
Speaker 2: night and uh go I be there.
Speaker 3: Oh good, oh good, I'll be there.
Speaker 2: A lot has changed and uh, and it'd be interesting
Speaker 2: to watch the calm kind of come.
Speaker 3: Over them too, I hope.
Speaker 1: So we had a lot of good questions when we
Speaker 1: held it last year, so we were able to answer
Speaker 1: a lot of questions. If we don't know a question,
Speaker 1: will let you know we don't know a question, but
Speaker 1: we will follow up with that and get you an answer.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you both for coming in here
Speaker 2: today and enlightening us here.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Bath Night.
Speaker 2: That's right at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. Doors open at six.
Speaker 3: Talk. It's going at six thirty.
Speaker 1: Cookies, cookies, lots of cookies, lots of cookies.
Speaker 2: And we'll teach you a little bit about how you
Speaker 2: can manage and navigate the ins and outs of getting your.
Speaker 3: Child ready to go to college. Thank you very much
Speaker 3: for being here, Thank you for having us. Yeah,