Ohio teen graduates college before graduating from high school
>> WELCOME BACK. ALL DATA IS MONEY MONDAY, WE ARE FOCUSED ON SAVING MONEY AND HELP YOU MAKE MORE INFORMED FINANCIAL DECISIS.ON >>LAWRENCE KE ANIS HERE AND THE CEO OF ABUNDANCE UNIVERSITY. CHECK OUT HIS SHIRT HERE. IT IS MONEY MONDAY. >> YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A PODCAST. PEOPLE HAVE TO CHECK THAOUT , SOLET’S FIRST T GESTARTED. THIS IS TIMELY BECAUSE I JUST HAD MY ONE SON GRADUATING FROM GHHISCHOOL YESTERDAY. IT IS THAT SEASON FOR GRADUATES, YOU WORK WITH A LOT OF STUDENTS AND SOMETIMES THEY DO GET THAT INFLUX OF MONEY, GRADUATION GIFTS, SO HOW CAN THESE HI GH SCHOOLERS PREPARE FOR COLLEGE AND MAYBE EVEN MOVING IN TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS AND AT THE SAME TI SE?ME >> IF THEY HAD ALL OF THAT INFLUX, THEY HAVE TO, NOMATTER WHAT, SAVE. IF IT IS A PERCENTAGE OR SPECIFIC DOLLAR AMOUNT. THINGS CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU’RE ON THE CAMPUSES. WHETHER IT’S BOOKS, FOOD, YOUR R CACAN BREAK DOWN, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS HAVE AN EMERGENCY FUND TUCKED AWAY. ALSO, OUR COLLEGE FRESHMEN NEED TO CONTINUE TO FILL OUT APPLICATIONS R FOSCHOLARSHIPS. I THINK WE FORGET THAT. YOU CAN FILL OUT SCHOLARSHIPS EVERYTHING THAT YOU’RE YOU’RE IN COLLEGE AND POTENTIALLY LESS THAN THAT BURDEN ONCE YOU GET OUT OF COLLEGE. >> THAT’S A GOOD POINT. IT DOESN’T STOP ONCE YOU GET INTO COLLE.EG LET’S TALK ABOUT OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS, THEIR HEAD OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD, A VERY DIFFERENT SET OF CIRCUMSNCTAES. WHAT TIPS DO YOU HAVE FOR THEM HEADING INTO SUMMER WERE TAKING ON THE REAL WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME? >> IN OUR BOOK, WE TALK ABOUT OUR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENT CHECKLIST. THERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU CAN DO TO GET PREPARED FOR WHAT WE CALL ADULTHOOD. THEY CAN HAVE THAT JOB OR WHATEVER THAT GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO SAVE A PORTION. IF THEY WANT TO SAVE ANYWHER BETWEEN FIVE TO $6000 BEFE OR THEY GRADUA TEHIGH SCHOOL, THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO LOOK AT THEIR CREDIT AS HE WENT ON THERE. AND THERE IS ACTUALLY A WAY THAT WE SHOW OUR STUDENTS W HOTO DEAL CREDIT WITHOUT TAKING ON ANY DE. BTTHATS IONE THING. THE OTHER THING IS THEY CAN DEVELOP SOME SKILLS TO TRADE. NOT JUST GETTING THE COLLE EGDEGREE, BECAUSE WE KNOW THESE PAST FEW YEARS, THAT WASN’T THE CASE FO A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAD THE GREEN. BEING ABLE TO WORK IN THE FIELD AS SOON AS POSSIBL E, WHETHER IT IS INTERNING WITH A SMALL BUSINESS, EVERYBODY N’T CA GET THE BIG INTERNSHIP LIKE WE WOULD LIKE, BUT WE HAVE A TON OF SMA BLLUSINESSES, YOU CAN BE A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT FOR THESE COMPANIES, YOU CAN BE BRAND AMBASSADORS FOR THESE COMPANIES, THEY WANT TO EVENTUALLY BE LIKE. JUST BEING IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF WHERE YOU’RE ULTIMATELY TRYING TO GO, YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A SENIOR IN COLLEGE TO START WORKING IN THOSE FIELDS. YOU CAN BE A FRHM.ES >> MY EARS PERKED UP WHEN YOU SAID THESE KIDS SHOULD BE SAVING ANYWHERE FROM FIVE TO $6000 WHE ILTHEY A REIN COLLEGE. THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY, AND THERE A LOT OF STUDENTS OUT THERE WHO ARE SAYING, THESE KIDS ARE ALREADY LIVING CHECK TO CHECK, HOW DO THEY SAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME GOING TO SCOLHO >> THE FIRST PART IS, $11 OR MORE THAN A DOLLAR. DON’T FEEL YOU NEED TO SAVE IN FULL ALL THTIME. YOU HAVE FOUR YEAR S. EVEN AFTER THAT, IT IS TRYING TO GET THEM TO THINK THAT THEY SHOULDN’T ALWAYS SPEND MONEY ON FOOD ON THE WEEKENDS. THERE’S FOODAT HOME. AND BEING ABLE TO BEING MINDFUL OF WHAT YOU ARE ON THE CAMPUS FOR. YOU E AR THE ERTO DEVELOP SKILLS, RELATIONSHIP S,DEVELOP YOUR FUTURES AA BUSINESS PERSON, NURSING STUDENT, THAT MATTERS FOUR YEARS FROM NOW, WHAT I DO FOUR HOURS FROM NOW? WHERE CAN I WO RKNOW THAT WILL HELP ME WI THOUR FINANCIAL SITUATION. >>SO REALLY IT IS ABOUT DEVELOPING THE SKILLS YOU WANT TO HOLD ON ASN AADULT.I WENT TO COLLEGE WITHOUT THE SKILLS AND THEN YOU GET THERE AND IT IS A PARTY ENVIRONMENT AND YOU HAVE FREE TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT THIS IS THE TIME TO START BUILDING THE SKILLS YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. >> THE ERE ARA T LOOF RESOURCES ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUSES. THEY OFFER FINANCIAL LITERACY FOR FIRST━YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND FIRST━GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS. THERE ARE A LOT OF RESOURCES ON THE CAMPUSES WE ARE FINDING OUT ABOUT THAT OBVIOUSLY, WHERE THERE WOULD BE WERE THERE, BUT IN 2022 IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY DECIDED TO INVESTN IT. I >> I TELL YOU, I KE EP MENTIONING MY SON, AT FIRST HE TRIED TOSAVE HALF HIS PAYCHECK THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, N OW YOU, I NEED MORE THAN THAT, SO HE IS SAVING A QUARTER OF IT. SO MAYBE JU STTO TRY TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU AND SAVE A LITTLE BIT OF IT. >>DON’T LOOK AT OTHER PEOPLE’S CHAPTER 5 IN THINK YOU ARE STILL IN CHAPTER 1 >> MONEY MONDAY, CHECK IT O.
Ohio teen graduates college before graduating from high school
Updated: 5:08 PM EDT May 25, 2022
An Ohio teenager has a lot to be proud of after graduating college before graduating high school.Abbie Campana is the first student from Lakeview Local Schools, located in northeastern Ohio, to graduate with both an associate’s degree from college and a high school diploma. School officials said she graduated from college first.According to Lakeview school officials, Campana had been taking College Credit Plus at Youngstown State University since her sophomore year of high school. She decided to map out how to get her associate’s degree before she graduated high school.Campana has been taking college classes full-time at YSU for the past two years, school officials said. By May, she earned her 80 credit hours and graduated with a 4.0 GPA.Related video above: Tips on saving and preparing for life post-graduationShe earned her associate’s degree in business administration.School officials said all the college credits also counted toward her high school diploma. Days after graduating from YSU, Campana graduated from Lakeview High School as valedictorian.Campana is planning to attend Bowling Green State University in the fall where she will be considered a freshman but will be taking junior-level classes.The teenager wants to earn a bachelor’s in supply chain management, which she will be able to obtain in two years.
An Ohio teenager has a lot to be proud of after graduating college before graduating high school.
Abbie Campana is the first student from Lakeview Local Schools, located in northeastern Ohio, to graduate with both an associate’s degree from college and a high school diploma. School officials said she graduated from college first.
According to Lakeview school officials, Campana had been taking College Credit Plus at Youngstown State University since her sophomore year of high school. She decided to map out how to get her associate’s degree before she graduated high school.
Campana has been taking college classes full-time at YSU for the past two years, school officials said. By May, she earned her 80 credit hours and graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
Related video above: Tips on saving and preparing for life post-graduation
She earned her associate’s degree in business administration.
School officials said all the college credits also counted toward her high school diploma. Days after graduating from YSU, Campana graduated from Lakeview High School as valedictorian.
Campana is planning to attend Bowling Green State University in the fall where she will be considered a freshman but will be taking junior-level classes.
The teenager wants to earn a bachelor’s in supply chain management, which she will be able to obtain in two years.
