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<v ->The top three goals for the Gear Up</v>

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at IDEA Public Schools.

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One is to ensure that students and parents

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are well-informed about the financial aid process.

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Also, specifically targeting financial literacy

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to help them become aware of all the topics and themes

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that are gonna come up once they start applying

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for financial aid in their senior year.

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So, that's one.

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The second major theme is to increase college acceptances,

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and specifically targeting schools that have

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higher college graduation rates.

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So, one of the things that we've seen in the past is

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we've had six years of 100% of our students matriculating

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into college, however, now we're gonna start focus

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specifically on the completion rates of those students,

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so one of the big goals of our project is to ensure

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that we're targeting schools that students are able

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not to attend, but also graduate.

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And thirdly, the other goal of our project is to ensure

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that our students are socially aware of some of the issues

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that they might encounter in terms

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of completing their college degree.