Check out the official article on our newspaper website, The Fresh Print!Going to college and need some help figuring it out? Check out AVID!
The Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program has always been a great source for many kids figuring out how to join a college. If you're determined to go to college, take AVID .
The grades 7-12 can get help in advance with the help of avid and avid programs. AVID helps with financing, figuring out what credentials you need for certain colleges, and how to sign up. Learn how to take better notes, analyze texts and books, how to manage your money, and how to keep yourself on track for the future you want.
AVID can teach you how to manage money, get student loans, government help, and so much more. Many kids who don't know how they will manage their money during these up and coming years could benefit from taking an avid class.
If you're scared about paying back student loans, or just worried about how you might not be able to go to college due to financial issues, this is the class for you. Some colleges can be really expensive as well, plus costs of apartments, food, books, and any other materials you may need.
When you want to go to a specific college, you need to know what classes and what grades you need to know about to get into it. If you wanted to go to let's say UC Davis, you'd need to have taken 3-4 years of English and math, and 2-3 years of a class with another language, but that's just a snippet of what you need.
With specific colleges, you need to have been in clubs or sports as well. Including how sports and extracurricular activities may make any college applications look good.
Signing up for college could be tough. Personally, I found that avid really helped me walk through how to do it.
AVID shows you the online forms for colleges all over. If you ask your teacher in control of our school’s avid class (for us it is Mrs. Stetson), for tips on anything college related that you're wondering about, they would be great at answering any questions you may have.
The AVID program has helped about 93% of students who took the class get into a 4-year college--those are pretty good odds. AVID gives you tips on how to manage time, teaches how to take great notes, studying skills, focused reading, and organization tips. If you want to do well in college, these are great tips. Kids who join avid have been known to do better in college, and have learned a lot from this program.
AVID doesn't have to only be for college kids since it can help with anything. If you're struggling in a class, in AVID we learn how to take great notes and learn how to actually analyze books and text. AVID could also give you extra help with classes you could be struggling in. This class could also just be a study-hall kind of day, like if you are behind on a lot of work, you could use this time to get help from your peers and teacher to complete these assignments.