Learn how MEFA Pathway, MEFA’s free college and career planning portal, can help students find available scholarships, build a list of scholarships, and manage deadlines and awards.

Learn how students in grade 6-12 can use the Get to Know Yourself assessment in MEFA Pathway to learn more about themselves and use this knowledge to discover potential career paths.

Learn how students in grades 6-12 can use the Career Path tool in MEFA Pathway to explore incremental steps they might follow to reach a desired career by identifying stepping stone, similar, and advanced careers.

Learn how Discovery Zone activities in MEFA Pathway promote early exploration and introduce students in grades 6-8 to potential career and postsecondary planning options.

Learn how students in grade 9-12 can use the College Compare tool in MEFA Pathway to find colleges and universities that match their preferences and to help them build out a final college list.

Learn how students in grades 6-12 can create, document, and update short and long-term academic, career, and personal goals and strategies in MEFA Pathway.

Learn about features available for students in grades 6-8 in MEFA Pathway, the importance of early exploration & discovery, and how this builds a strong foundation that helps students in the transition to high school.

We all know that college is a significant expense for students and their families. But there are so many action steps that students can take, starting as early as middle school, to help them reduce their postsecondary costs and make the best financial decision for themselves and their family. Within this MassEdCO Fall Forum, an expert panel walk through the college planning process from middle school through college graduation and touch on the critical decision points for students and how to navigate them wisely. Panelists discuss using career aspirations to help inform college selection, which data is truly important in the college search, key programs that lower college costs, navigating college spending and budgeting, loans, and so much more. Panelists include Mark Bilotta, CEO of MassEdCO, Apelila Joseph, MEFA Pathway Program Manager, Ebony Marsala, Director of Financial Aid at Boston College, Tim Poynton, Associate Professor at UMass Boston, and Bill Smith, Assistant Vice President of Student Financial Assistance at Stonehill College.

Learn how MEFA Pathway, MEFA’s free college and career planning portal, can help students find available scholarships, build a list of scholarships, and manage deadlines and awards. Also learn how to add Local Scholarships to the Counselor Portal for students to view and apply.

Learn how students can use the College Search tool within MEFA Pathway, MEFA’s free college and career planning portal, to select specific criteria to search for colleges and build a solid college list.