Submitted the SIR...what's next?

norcalmom2
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:31:11 +0000

Thanks for the replies…

Kender - I think we will probably take your advice about the orientation…my son will benefit by attending to get his classes, for sure. We will go spend the day in town and go to the beach. (we’re from San Jose so we love going ‘over the hill’ on a regular basis)

I did some more research regarding the financial aid - looks like its probably accurate based on our EFC (Estimated Expected Family Contribution (EFC)= 27136).
I was hoping that there would be a little more financial help…but, we are just an average middle-class family. I guess I should be glad that our older son just graduated from college in Dec. '10 - so, we will only have 1 kid attending college.

After reading quite a few of your posts about Porter College - I sure hope my son gets his first choice! How do they go about selecting people for the colleges? His declared major is Film and Digital Media (I think)…he might actually change or double major. Does he have a better chance of getting into Porter because of his major?

TIA