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All 10th graders will be taking the ASVAB on Friday, November 21st. If you are a junior or senior and want to take the ASVAB on that day, please email Mrs. Opfar.
College Visits to Rockwood Seniors and Juniors
College representatives have started making appointments for visits to Rockwood this year.
This is the perfect opportunity to ask valuable questions you may have about potential enrollment in the programs they offer. Don't procrastinate, take a minute out of your busy schedule and meet with these representatives. Who knows your future may be in one conversation with them. There is a sign-up sheet in the Guidance Office if you would like to meet with these representatives.
The PA Department of Education is excited to announce a new statewide PA FAFSA helpline - 313 PA FAFSA (313-723-2372) - available for free to all aspiring PA postsecondary learners, their families, and practitioners to help complete the 2024/2025 FAFSA. With a text to 313 PA FAFSA, Commonwealth students and families will get connected to a live expert at uAspire, a national nonprofit that specializes in student financial aid advising.
Starting today, PA students, parents, and practitioners supporting them can text 313- PA FAFSA (313-723-2372) any time to get connected to a FAFSA expert, ask questions, or set up personal advising sessions for free — as many times as needed to complete their application. IF texting late night or over the weekend, PA residents will get responses within 24 business hours to help them complete their FAFSA.
This free, text-enabled 313 PA FAFSA helpline is available for PA students and their contributors all summer long. Please promote the helpline with your PA students and practitioner networks to take advantage of this on-call expert support for PA students’ FAFSA completion. The helpline is available in Spanish. A flyer is attached for posting and sharing with your PA post-secondary students and practitioner networks.
PDE is hopeful that this expert assistance from uAspire along with the tireless commitment PHEAA and our PA FAFSA Go! colleagues will close the completion gap and help more PA students get on an affordable path to their post-secondary dreams this fall.
Upcoming Financial Aid Webinars
https://www.pheaa.org/virtual/
FAFSA Assistance
In addition to the 26 credits and Senior Project required by Rockwood Area School District, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has enacted new requirements for graduation. These requirements provide 5 distinct pathways to meet graduation requirements. Students must successfully meet the requirements of ONE of the five pathways.
Resources:
- Use the following resources to help determine which parent(s) needs to contribute information to the student’s FAFSA:
- Who is a contributor to the FAFSA? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtS0SnscMI
- Is my parent a contributor? - https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/is-my-parent-a-contributor.jpg
- Prepare your contributors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uubc08CDE&list=PLtr3wy4M_CJ18cBXJb2r5mzyFoh9e9mcl&index=3
- Students need to create their FSA ID 4 days in advance of the workshop. Any contributor of information to the FAFSA such as a parent(s), also needs to create an FSA ID 4 days in advance of the workshop. You can direct them to studentaid.gov/fsa-id to create an FSA ID. If a parent doesn’t have a Social Security number, they will be able to create an FSA ID on studentaid.gov/fsa-id when FAFSA becomes available. Parent(s) that have an FSA ID that they previously used, should log into studentaid.gov/fsa-id as they may need to update their password.