<p>res ipsa -</p>
<p>Every student needs to identify at least one Rock-Solid Academic and Financial Safety. This is a place where the student is guaranteed admission based on their stats, and that the student’s family can pay for without any aid other than federally determined (FAFSA) aid. It also needs to be a place that the student will be happy to attend if everything else goes wrong in the application process. </p>
<p>In nine days, CC is going have a whole bunch of new threads started by students who didn’t do this, and for whom everything did go wrong. Some of the threads will be in the Financial Aid Forum asking how to pay for colleges and universities that are unaffordable, and some of the threads will be in College Search or Admissions asking how to find a college or university that still is accepting applicants. Please do yourself (and the rest of the CC community) a kindness, and find yourself at least one Rock-Solid Safety.</p>