First Generation College Student Guide, College Survival Guide, FAFSA Checklist, College Planner for Freshmen, Fillable PDF

If you're the first in your family to go to college, nobody hands you the rulebook. This guide writes it down. Six short chapters cover what to do after you're accepted, how the FAFSA and aid offers work, and how credits and GPA are figured. They also cover how to use office hours and email professors (templates included) and which campus offices are there to help, then walk you through your first semester. It ends with a glossary of 22 college terms everyone else seems to already know. 25 pages.