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Resources to Support Students with Financial Aid Application Completion

Launch Financial Aid Applications from CaliforniaColleges.edu Launching from CaliforniaColleges.edu ensures the most accurate tracking of students’ financial aid application statuses for students and educators. View the tutorial on how to launch here and share with your students and the staff who are supporting them. Updated! Financial Aid Resources for Students In alignment with the State…

Basic Accounts Now Available for 6th-12th Grade Students in California Public Schools

In 2023, the California Department of Education (CDE) executed a data-sharing agreement with the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) that grants 6th-12th grade California public school students Basic Accounts on CaliforniaColleges.edu starting Fall 2024. We are excited to announce that the new Basic Accounts are now available, and 6th-12th grade students enrolled in public schools…

CaliforniaColleges.edu Summer Updates

As part of our continuous improvement of CaliforniaColleges.edu to meet the needs of students and educators, the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) made several updates to the platform this summer. Click the blue bars below to expand each section and read the associated updates. As always, we thank you for your continued partnership and use…

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New College Application Status Reports Now Available

We are excited to announce two new reports available from CCGI to track college and financial aid application statuses for students in your district this application season. These reports include a school-level report that is available to your site and district educators on CaliforniaColleges.edu, as well as a district-wide report that is available via your…

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New Top Careers Tab Will Show Students Their Top 20 Careers

New Top Careers Tab Will Show Students Their Top 20 Careers Beginning in June of 2023, there will be a new tab in My Career Plan called Top Careers. Top Careers will display a curated list of a student’s top 20 careers based on their most recent results from Interest Profiler, Skills, and Work Values…

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New Skills Assessment

New Skills Assessment will Provide Students with Career Matches We’re excited to announce a new Career Assessment called Skills! High school students will now have access to a new Career Assessment called Skills. The assessment is designed to give students a better understanding of their skills in five distinct categories: The Skills assessment will then…

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Our Career Assessments Just Got Even Better

We are excited to announce some new features that will improve the Career Assessments and overall user experience on CaliforniaColleges.edu. Background The Career Assessments on CaliforniaColleges.edu help students discover their strengths and interests and learn how they connect to fulfilling careers through thoughtful questions. We work with Human eSources (HeS) to provide these Career Assessments…

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2022 CSAC Integration Enhancements

The goal of CaliforniaColleges.edu is to streamline the college application process so that more students across the state are empowered to pursue higher education. We do this by ensuring that the educational systems serving students are able to successfully share data with one another through CaliforniaColleges.edu To accomplish this, we collaborate with educational institutions across…