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Course: College admissions > Unit 1
Lesson 1: Introduction: College admissionsSal Khan's story: College admissions
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- who agrees that khan academy is impacting life here?(60 votes)
- I agree. It's impacting the present and the future.(14 votes)
- What age should I start saving for college?(30 votes)
- This depends on how much you are able to save, how much it will cost for your preferred school(s), and how much aid you expect to be able to obtain, as well as whether or not you plan on doing your first couple years at a junior college. This article may help more than I can in a single response: https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/how-much-to-save-for-college, as well as this section of KA: https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/college-admissions/paying-for-college(26 votes)
- Is it ok if someone started at middle school in this academy?(13 votes)
- Sure it is, I've been using this on and off since 6th grade (the beginning of middle school for me), and now I'm in high school and all that extra education is coming in really useful.(6 votes)
- which collage did you go to ?(7 votes)
- Sal Khan went to MIT in Boston.(5 votes)
- What about us (I mean international students)?(11 votes)
- Well the same thing. There is a section for transfer students. Keep in mind that if university is expensive for people from the EEUU, imagine for us. It's a scam in my opinion. Just work hard, get good grades and let's see what happens. Good luck. Any more questions you have I will try to help with my limited knowledge.(2 votes)
- Hi, I'm kristen from Nigeria. A med student actually but I want to start afresh in the US. What is the recommended SAT score and financially I am not capable to school there, is there any financial aid opportunity for me?(8 votes)
- 1500-1600 SAT Score Is Really Good And Will Allow You To Chose The Med School That You Want To Go To. Financial Aid For Foreign Students Is Common In Med Schools. Hope This Helps!(6 votes)
- What makes Sal decided he wanted to make a website called Khan Academy to begin with?(7 votes)
- Hi, I wanted to know if Khan college gives any degree or certificate to the student after completing school.(6 votes)
- I think KA is more of a supplement to a real school. Personally, I go to an online school and use KA to clarify things my teacher doesn't cover.(2 votes)
- I don't have money for that, my entire family will be in dept.(5 votes)
- I mean IDK where you are at now but if you be smart and let your strengths shine, I am pretty sure colleges and universities may offer you partial or full scholarships. If you don't get that, some people are willing to help you out in exchange for work. So keep your chin up for whats to come(4 votes)
- How many colleges should I apply to?(4 votes)
Video transcript
- Hi, I'm Sal Khan, founder
of the Khan Academy. I just wanted to welcome
you to this resource on navigating the college of, I guess, application, admissions,
and paying-for process. You know, for me this is
a super-important thing. College was a big part of my life. Obviously, we all know you
learn a lot at college, but it also opens up your mind. You have, it's important
to be in a community that really challenges you, between your peers, your professors, I met my wife in college, many of the same people that
I worked with in college, I remember I was in a
entrepreneurship competition my junior year, and many of the people who were on my team then,
I'm still working with now, 20 years later, on Khan Academy. And I think it would be fair to say if I hadn't had that experience, Khan Academy might not exist. And because college can
be such a mind-expanding, an eye-opening experience,
it's really important that everyone realizes that it's actually more accessible than most people think. When I was a kid, my mom
raised us as a single mother and I just assumed that
we would never be able to afford a selective,
private four-year university. But my sister, who was three years older, when she applied to college, she got into actually
several really good schools, and her first choice, when
she applied, you know, when I looked at the actual dollar amount for the tuition, there's no way. That was actually, the tuition
at that university was more than my mom made in a year. But they gave my sister
a financial aid package, some was contributed by my mother, but my sister had to take on a loan, do some work study, but they made it so that she could go. And that opened the possibilities for me. When it was my time, I
applied where I thought that I could thrive the most, and I applied for financial
aid, and like my sister, they made it possible for me to have that very rich and important
experience in my own life. So my biggest hope is
that, as you go through these resources, you look
at it from your own lens, and it opens up the same
type of possibilities that I was lucky enough
to have in my own life.