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Contact Information:

Frances Squire
Marketing Director
9900 Cody Street
Coalinga, CA 93210
francessquire@
westhillscollege.com
(559) 934-2134-office
(559) 250-6389-cell
(559) 934-2813-fax

Cash for College Workshops

High school senior students who attend one of West Hills Colleges’ Cash for College Workshops will have the opportunity to participate in a $1,000 scholarship raffle by completing a brief survey at the end of the workshop and submitting their FAFSA and Cal Grant GPA Verification Form by the March 2nd deadline.

 

West Hills has announced the workshop dates which begin at the end of this month. The workshops serve to help students and their parents fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and Cal Grant GPA Verification Form required for Cal Grants.

 

At the workshop, students will also sign up for a FAFSA pin number, which is used to sign the application electronically. Financial aid staff from West Hills will help students log into the FAFSA Web site and complete the application line by line.

 

If you are 23 years old, or younger, bring your parent(s) or guardian(s) — and their income and asset information listed below. If your parents can’t go with you to a workshop, you should go anyway and bring your parent's information. If you are a foster youth, or 24 years of age or older you can just bring your own income and asset information.

 

• Driver's license
• Social Security card or number
• Alien registration number, if you are not a U.S. citizen
• Your 2008 income information
• Your parents’ 2008 income information
• Your tax and your parent’s tax information; previous year taxes are okay for now if you don’t have 2008 tax information
• 2008 bank statements
• Any records of untaxed income such as welfare benefits, Social Security benefits, or child support payments
• List of colleges you are interested in attending

West Hills will host nine different workshops at five different communities. The dates and locations are listed below:

• Riverdale High School

          February 12, 6-8 p.m.

• Laton High school

          February 4, 10 a.m.-Noon

          February 19, 6-8 p.m.

• Lemoore High School

        February 10, 6-8 p.m.

          February 25, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

• Caruthers High school

           February 11, 6-8 p.m.

• Coalinga High School

           Feb. 5 & 6, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

           Feb. 11 &12, 6-8 p.m.

• West Hills College Coalinga

           Feb. 28, FAFSA Fiesta 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Tranquillity High School

           Feb. 18, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Avenal High School

           Feb. 10, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

           Feb. 11, 6-8 p.m.

• Firebaugh High School

           Feb. 12, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m.

• Faith Christian Academy-Coalinga

           Feb. 19, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

• North District Center, Firebaugh

           Feb. 21-FAFSA Fiesta 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Jamison High School

           February 13, 11 a.m.-Noon

           February 20, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

 

For more information, contact Dolores Smith, director of financial aid at WHCCD, at (559) 934-2306.

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West Hills Community College District serves the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and is part of the California Community College System.  Its two colleges, West Hills College Coalinga, which includes North District Center, Firebaugh, and West Hills College Lemoore, serve more than 6,000 students on campus and online each semester.