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Now that your college admissions paperwork has been completed and you’ve been accepted to the college of your dreams, you’ll find that your work has just begun. In just three short months, a lot of ground needs to be covered. You will need to start thinking about how you’re going to pay for your education. Will you need to secure a loan? Can you get any grants, scholarships, fellowships that you won’t need to pay back upon graduation. Are there any work study opportunities? You may be tempted to just forget about school for awhile and enjoy all the summer parties, but you should spend a little bit of time planning for your future and the many tasks ahead.

As soon as the college admissions process is finished, you should immediately set your sights on funding college. Be sure to have an honest discussion with your parents and see if they’re willing to throw in anything to help you out. Look at your current job situation and your prospective job situation. If you’re keeping your current job, how many hours a week can you realistically work? If you’re going away to school, you need to begin applying in the town you’re moving to immediately before the late summer rush of applicants flood every possible job opportunity. Work won’t necessarily cover everything, though. You may also need to look for student financial aid to scrape together short-term cash to cover tuition and board. The last thing you want is to be de-registered from all your classes because you were late with your payment!

Most college admissions offices have a separate department to deal with financial aid for students, where you will find applications for college loans. There are Federal Perkins Loans that award undergrads up to $4,000/year and must be repaid to your school within 10 years after graduation, with a 5% interest rate. There are also FFEL Stafford Loans from credit unions or bank institutions, which may be subsidized for students with financial need or unsubsidized for other applicants; the amount awarded varies based on a number of factors and the repayment period could be as long as 25 years at 6.8% interest. Next you can apply for a Direct Stafford Loan from the US Department of Education, which operates under the same terms as the other Stafford loans. The FFEL Plus loans are for parents who wish to pay for their children’s education at an interest rate of 8.5% over 10-25 years. Similarly, Direct PLUS loans are for parents with a 7.9% interest rate.

Once you have finished dealing with college admissions and financial aid, you will have a little break. Yet near the end of your sophomore year, you will need to focus on internship opportunities. Ideally, you will look carefully at work environments you may see yourself staying at. Often times a student intern is offered a lasting position with the company upon graduation, which will make the transition into the working world much easier, as you can skip over that period of painful indecisiveness and that void that opens up once you’re finished with school. To apply for internships, you will need to craft a resume, a cover letter and possibly create a portfolio of your work (if you are in the creative fields). The campus career center can help you prepare these documents with ease.

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