So Mike, why don't you go ahead and hit the record button. Got it. Awesome. Okay. Yeah, being recorded. We'll get started. Thanks for coming. We're going to talk a little bit about the summer experience grant that's offered. To all undergraduate students for their summer experiences. I'm Sam Stafford. I'm the Program Manager for the Summer Experience, for Arts & Sciences Career Development. But I've also kind of like managed a lot of this process for the last year, so I'm probably gonna be talking a lot about this experience. Mike, go ahead and introduce yourself. Hi everyone, my name is Mike Loeffleman. I'm the Program Associate for the Summer Experience Grant and I work in Central Career Services. So we'll go ahead and get started. We're hoping this will be an hour. Like I said, it will be recorded. We'll definitely be sharing slides for anybody who wants the resources that are on this page. Feel free to also. Use the chat for questions. We might not get to them right away, but we'll have a time at the end. To answer questions. I'm gonna kind of monitor them, and so is Mike as we go, so that we can answer as we go, but if we don't get to it we'll do it at the end. And again, this will be recorded and put on the website, the Central Career Services website and in the so that you can see it if you want to reference back to it. Alright, so we're hoping to go over the Summer Experience Grant what it is, the application process and kind of the steps in the process and tips on how to fill out your application. And as well as the timeline and again at the end, some questions. So basically the Summer Experience Grant is a bunch of grants. It's, we get funding from the Student Assembly and then each college might have their own funding for students. So it's for any undergraduate student in any of our colleges and it covers your expenses for your experience. So anything like food, housing, utilities. Clothing professional clothing if you go we're going to go into details but general expenses and it isn't something where we're giving money to the company to pay you. You're gonna get grant, and like basically a check cut to you so that you can cover your expenses for any of your summer experience. And the amounts total, they vary between $5,000 and $6,000 depending on which award you're getting and what college you're in. We do have specific funding for SEG. We already mentioned the Student Assembly summer experience. Any student, in any college. We do have some special funding for veterans. And people who are dependents of veterans. We also have a -this is the Vicki Saporta Social Justice Internship Fund. Is something that is preferred for ILR students. But if we, we can't identify an ILR student, it sometimes is given to students in other colleges. It is really specific to people working at progressive organizations. And you can see more details here, but then you can also go on the website to read more about that award. So that's funding that's for everyone and then each college has, not each college, some colleges have their own funding. I know in Arts & Sciences we have specific funds that you can see and all this is on the website, which has a lot of resources, but so does the website, which has a lot of resources, but so does the ILR has specific funding and Engineering as well. What makes you eligible for their award? So you have to be a current student. So you have to be in classes and enrolled in classes this semester and you also have to be enrolled in classes next semester. So in general, you have to be a first year, second year, third year/junior or you're in right now a first semester senior so you're not graduating until December 2024. Again, you have to not be, a leave of absence. You have to be in good academic standing so not on probation or whatever. Your college deems as academic good standing. And then the experience itself, it doesn't need to be an internship. That's because we don't call it an internship grant, we call it an experience grant because experiences can look very different depending on where you what you're doing. It can be an internship. It could be some something you're volunteering with. As long as it's career related, it's at least 4 weeks in length. In 100 hours total for over the summer. In general, we think that if you're working at least 24- 25 hours/week is what we typically see. If you're working less so you're doing maybe 10 weeks of it. 10 hours week. We're gonna ask more questions or want you to explain a little bit more. About why you're only working that amount of time for the week. Per week. It has to be paid, unpaid or minimally paid. Usually that means you're making minimum wage. So not some of that's dependent on the city you're gonna be in. But basically your expenses. Should be more than the the income you're making. And we will only cover experiences, that are from May 19th to August 23rd. So it's basically the day after classes end or, you know, finals then to the day before. The next semester starts. If you aren't sure if you're or you want to know whether your experience is eligible, there is this great. Just this Qualtrics form that kinda can ask you a bunch of questions and it tells you whether you're eligible or not for your experience. Yeah. Sam, if I may just add one item there. With this eligibility screening, it's very important that you realize it is not. Right. A definitive answer. On the Summer Experience Grant, but rather an idea surrounding eligibility. You can definitely reach out to us if you have questions about eligibility. But it is not a definitive answer regarding summer experience. I just wanna make sure. That that was said. Yeah, that's like you if you take this and you it shows that you're not eligible that doesn't mean don't apply or do apply. It's just a tool to use. I think we developed it because we would get a lot of emails and sometimes this is just an easier way for you to try to. We're actually gonna go through some more details next about kind of some criteria that you should consider. But thanks, Mike. That's helpful. So really, any career related experience, it has to be supervised. Like you can't just be like going off on your own or can't be an entrepreneurial venture, right? It has to be supervised by a staff member at the organization you're working with or faculty. So if you're doing research for example, it might be a faculty or post-doc. Nice. You said it doesn't have to be a formal internship. For research experiences, it cannot be a graduate student. You might be in your day to day. There was a graduate student that's helping you do the work, but you have to list either the principal investigator, which is usually the person that the lab, the person that has to oversee the lab, which is usually the faculty. Member or post-doc, a post-doc. Is someone who's already gotten their PhD that's working in the lab as a staff member. So they might be your point of contact, but it cannot be a graduate student. Again, if you're doing a volunteer experience, it needs to be supervised by a staff member at the organization in volunteering. And a remote experience is okay. And again, still need to supervisor. Some really big, we get a lot of questions about ineligible experiences. Anything that's private or fee base. So if you're paying a company to place you with an internship. Or you're paying, even if it's that they're just covering the costs of like housing and food, whatever it is. That's not eligible. You have to find your internship on your own. You can't pay a company and we're not gonna pay the fees that the company is charging you to do this. Any of the college based programs that charge tuition. So Cornell in Washington, urban summers, the pre law summer program, anything with the global health minor. Basically if you're getting any kind of credit. For this experience, it's not eligible. So that goes back into tuition. Of course, so if you're making credit for this in the time that you're doing it. Sometimes there's a few experiences where maybe you're doing getting the credit afterwards once you come back, but anything that has to, tuition or course work for credit, that's why study abroad experience is next on our list. That's why they're not a part of it. So any of the study abroad programs like global learning, where you're taking a course in the country, that's not eligible. No personal projects. There's like students if you were doing personal research, there's other grants for you out there that you could do that depending on the college, anything that's a entrepreneurial venture again, there's other forms to get support for that entrepreneurial venture through. Entrepreneurship at Cornell. But any personal projects aren't eligible for this award. Anything supervised by, not a professional. So a student undergraduate, that's a big one. And I think lastly, if you are making more money, then what it costs to do your experience. You're not eligible. Even if you're breaking even. And I think this is we've gotten a lot of questions. Because we know that there's students who are getting even if you're going to like consulting or finance or living in New York City or Boston, they're really expensive places. Usually if you're making at least in those expensive cities, if you're making $20 to $25 an hour or more and you're working for a big Fortune 500 company, you are generally not eligible for this award. This award is not meant for you. So I know it's hard, but even recount anything that is a break even so you or spend everything you're making you're spending on expenses that is not eligible for this. If your expenses exceed your income. To keep that in mind. International travel is something that we allow. It's been kind of in, you know, since we've gotten out of the pandemic, it's these the way we funded these have changed. The caveat is we can conditionally accept you to get the funding but you will need to prove to us that Cornell is okay with you traveling internationally. So at once you get conditionally accepted to the award so that usually means like we've approved everything we're going to give you your money we're just going to do the checks. You'll have to go through and register your travel through the registry. And depending on the process, you either just need to prove that you've done the registry and it's approved but if you're at an elevated risk country. You'll have to go through the ITART process, which will take longer. Do not do this unless you get conditionally approved. So don't be like, alright, I'm gonna go do this right now. The reason you do this is because we've said you're going to get funding. And then you gotta go ask, can I travel to this place? And then you have to prove to us. They said it's okay. I can travel to this place. And then we give you the funding. Otherwise, if we're not paying for it, now I'm not paying for it. You don't have to do the registry. But I would take a look at those elevated risk countries too. Just we cannot, we're not gonna make a decision if something's on that elevated risk country. That's up to the folks that have this, you know, made this process, the ITART process, which is through global learning and risk management. So expenses that we will cover under this grant. So we'll cover any travel to the experience. The caveat is if you're an international student traveling home to do an experience, we won't pay for that but we will pay for travel if you're like leaving from Ithaca and going to New York City. And you're not going home, we can pay for that. That's a good example for travel to the experience. Any housing, so the rent in the utilities that it for your experience in that includes heat. Well, you won't need hate probably in the summer, but for your experience. And that includes heat, well, you won't need heat probably in the summer, but maybe depending on where you're going. Electric, internet and phone bill, I like to say this because in 2024 a phone bill is a phone is something you'll need for most experiences so we will pay for that phone bill. When you do, we go to the budget section, we'll talk about how to like basically chunk all that amount together. Any commuting costs, so the mileage rate if you're driving by car, as well as any transport public transportation, the caveat with public transportation is getting like the best rate possible so like a lot of students like to put the daily rate they'll put a daily rate do a monthly pass usually those are more less expensive Tcat will prorate your yearly pass if you're in Ithaca. So it's only the cost of a yearly pass. Or like a small the 2 or 3 months that that yearly pass would cover. Parking, food and laundry is in your food and living expenses. So that is, we'll talk about how that's calculated, but that's not something you necessarily have to. Like tell us an amount. And any professional clothing, lab coat and software, we have an other category for software and equipment. Things that we don't cover is any. Payments on your car again, we'll pay for the mileage. And mileage covers. The gas. So mileage and gas are like interchangeable, but we won't make car payments. We won't pay for a gym membership. We're not paying your credit card bills. I don't think anybody was expecting that, but that's what they were gonna do. And same with any of the like entertainment and that's a good thing to know too because a lot of times the utilities We'll pay for your internet because those are usually things you need, especially if you're in a remote work experience, but we're not gonna pay for the like premium package either. And any, we don't, next year there is no student contribution or summer savings expectations, so we don't have to worry about that. But if there was, you wouldn't have to pay. We wouldn't pay for that either. So I'm gonna go through now, things that we need when you're filling out your application and what we're gonna ask of you. So it's basically all the like kind of each page. There's 9 pages to the application, which I know sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. And some of the supplemental materials you'll need in order to do that. So in order to apply, you need an offer, right? Like you definitely need an offer for an experience and it needs to be a written offer, cause you need to provide. That as part of your application. You also need your financial aid, and we'll talk a little bit about that as well. And a cover of your resume. So things that we consider. Is there a lot that a lot of times students ask, we do consider financial need when we're making this decision. We also want this to be connected to your career goals. Like this shouldn't be like. You'll need to explain why doing this it's relevant to the things you want to do when you want it after you leave and after you graduate. And definitely the detail you put in. The more detail we, you know, we score the applications, we review and make sure, you know, the detail matters. So the application lives on the Experience site. I hope, I think all of you have probably seen this if you have it. Sorry. at the end I can show you and this is just kind of what it looks like. This is actually the screenshot from last year. I just realized that. The application actually due on April 15th, not 16 because that's what the March. There the March day or April day is for this year. But it's lives on the Experience site and a lot of this information is also on the Experience site. As well as like a preview of all the application questions. So there's the first 2 pages. Is really about getting your experience, information. So what are you doing? Where are you doing it at? How many hours a day are you gonna be working? How many days a week are you gonna be working? Again, asking if it's a research experience or not. What Where are you living and like what kind of is it remote? Is it hybrid? So that's the first page. It's really about the application or about the experience information. And this is where you're gonna put in your supervisor and it's really important that you put the right supervisor down the person that is actually going to be, that's the person will contact. To verify that you're gonna do this experience and they're gonna have to throw out a form. There's also some essay questions. What are your career goals and interests and how does it fit with your career goals and interest? So again, seeing that connections, what do you expect it to do in this role? What are your responsibilities? And what do you hope to learn from this experience? So those are some of the ethic questions that we ask. And if you wanna apply for the land out grant on the essay questions page, that's a place that you'll do that as well. So one thing that I always say for students when they're asking about the essay questions is like, what do you look for? So I think giving you the already said to be detailed, be thorough. Tell us your story. Anytime I tell students any essay question, it doesn't matter if it's for this grant or if you're applying to any program. Go beyond yourself. Like, so why is it important? What so what now what so like not just being like this is what I'm gonna do like this is what I'm gonna do and this is why it's important. This is why I what I'm gonna do, this is why it's important and this is why it matters. On a grander bigger picture. Any, if you can go beyond just yourself, that's always a good indication of a good way to respond to those kind of. Questions, even if it is about your career. Maybe the reason why you want to do this is not just because this is the career, but this is something you really value. We'll talk about that too. I think that's a really good way to like approach those ethic questions. Some of these, some of these internships, you don't always land like your first shot or the best shot, you might be doing this internship because you didn't get the consulting internship you wanted or the finance internship because those are really competitive. So maybe this wasn't the first thing but tell us why you're hoping to gain the skills that you're hoping to gain and why this fits in there. We're gonna talk about the financial need next, but I will say that knowing your financial picture is really helpful for us as we start to determine people. Who should get the award. So being as specific as you're comfortable with is helpful for us as reviewers. When we're looking at applications. When I, I'll show you how to like see the preview. My tip is to try to rewrite or pre write your answers in Word and then. Put them in the experience site. You can also as soon as you like write an answer in the experience site, you can hit save and it will save your responses. But you got to make sure to do that. Just, it's just a good, you know, tip of the day. Make sure you're, you know. Right it out first and then copy and paste it. That's the best way, but also making sure you save even if you're like mid thought. Just so you don't lose the work that you're doing. So the page 3. Is about financial aid. So it's financial, any financial aid for the, and financial aid and just your financial information. If you receive financial aid, we ask that we ask, do you receive financially? Yes or no? If you do, we are asking you to send us up. Like a screenshot of your financial aid summary that's in the you can access that access that through the Student Center. And you have to send it through this system called the secure file transfer. Please don't email it to Mike directly. You secure file transfer. It's there's a lot of information, but that's how we're gonna determine how much need you have if you are on financial aid. A lot of our awards are need based. We do put a preference on students. That being said, even if you're not on aid, you can still apply. I think you would not need to send the statement. And we also if you weren't on a this year but maybe last year, you still only should be sending or only checking that box if you are on aid this year. So for this academic year. We won't use financial aid summaries from previous years. That being said, explain your circumstances to the best you said. I already said this, but like we have some prompts of like. What's your financial circumstances? Why why do you need this award? What would you do if you didn't get this award? There's a little thing that do have factors that affect your financial need. If you click yes to that, there's like a drop-down of factors like maybe you're simply you have a sibling in college. So your parents, you may not be on financial aid, but there's 2 siblings going to college at the same time, which is a big financial commitment for family. Maybe you're emancipated and you don't have any, like you can't rely on your parents for the income that you're not making over the summer. That's why you're asking for this. But they're not supporting you, whatever you're doing. To use that space to kind of talk about that. I also want to talk for our international students. Many of you aren't on federal financial aid just because that's not something that you normally get. So this is really your time to also do that. And I will say that even though because you're not on aid as an international student, will still consider those the way you answer this page and how you're financially, in our. Wait a way when we're looking at students who meet financial or have financial need. So I think always wanna like call out for that in for international student population since that's not something that always happens. That's something you get. Yeah. Yes, Sam, if I could just chime in here. Just with the tips for everyone, we really do mean we want you to explain. Right. Your circumstances because we've never met you. We don't, we, we don't walk in your shoes. So. As much information as you're willing to share. Will help paint a better picture. Of who you are and what your background looks like that you're bringing to this experience. Yeah. So it's up to you, but it's all about painting. The best picture possible for us. Yeah. Thanks, Mike. That's a good tip. And I'll talk a little bit more to in the budget section, which actually is next. About some other ways that you could kind of explain why you're making the choices around your, application. So the budget section is really where you're gonna tell us a dollar amount of what you need for certain categories. And I will say this is the section. If you get to have one takeaway from this. Is how to complete this section this budget section from this presentation because a lot of students don't quite do it right even though we've written the instructions. Try to be as clear as possible with the instructions. So we on this page, we're gonna ask you a little bit about why where you're living, like what's your permanent address? Where you're living for your experience. Why you chose to live in that place. And this is where you can kind of also go into detail. So maybe you have a circumstance where you're from New York City. And you're doing an internship in New York City, but you're asking for rent because it would be 2 hours to
 commute. Into the city or wherever your internship is. And so having a place that's a little closer to where the office is or you live with your family and there's a lot of people and I have a remote experience and I'm not going to be able to do. My remote experience well. So living on my own in my apartment that I'm already paying rent in in Ithaca makes more sense than me going back home to where it is to do this remote experience. So there's a kind of a question in that section to really explain why you chose the housing. And that helps us too as we're trying to decide whether, you know, your rent makes sense for you or what you've put down. When it actually comes to putting the dollar amount in the budget section, we're gonna ask you to put a total dollar amount for the summer. So the not the monthly rate. The total amount you plan to spend on rent and utilities. And I'll, and there's one caveat and I'll go through that. So the first one is actually and I should have updated I did update this right up before it's rent in utilities. We in general say that rent we won't pay more than $1,500 in rent a month. So in total that's about 4,500. We won't pay more than $4,500 for the summer in rent. That might look bigger when you're starting to include your utilities amounts into that picture. But, and I know it's hard because there's some places that are pretty expensive, there's some places that are pretty expensive, but with the we won't, that are pretty expensive, but with the we won't for some awards you can't go over $5,000 you can't go over $5,000 anyways so you just gotta keep that in mind You know, and in New York City, depending on the kind of housing you're getting, it, you can find it. You might just need to be in a double or triple and some of those student housing options or sublet from someone or you know make a little bit longer commute. Instead of living closer to wherever that experience is. But in general, again, $1,500 limit per month. The total, $4,500. It will look it will be more if utilities are included, but that's the all that. So anything rent. Cable or not cable, rent, internet, trash. Cell phone bell. That's that total amount that you're going to put in the rent. Then, once you put the amount in, we're gonna ask you to explain how did you do your math? You know, anytime you took a math test in the last 18 years of your life, you've been told to write how you got to that response. We want that too. So we want you to say rent costs a thousand dollars a month and living there for 3 months it is $3,000 utilities are $100 a month. That's so $3,300. So making sure that for every expense except for food you're gonna put that how you got to that number in the explanation. Now, Food and living expenses. So we'll do that for you. You will do that total for travel costs and commuting costs, clothing costs in any of the other category and the other again will pay for software equipment and. Any kind of like things that you might need that you don't have that you'd have for experience. And again, for clothing, no more than $500. You could ask for a total of 500. But then say, you know, it's $200 per suit. I mean, it's, I need  $100- 2 shirts that are $50 each. So whatever that breakdown, you know, $75 for a pair of shoes, whatever it is that you need for that. For food, you're just gonna check a box. And I'm gonna preface we change the equation a little bit because this was new something new that we had last year. So food and living expenses. So that's laundry, personal care items. Anything that you would kind of buy at the grocery store do laundry. Kind of fits in that category. If you click the box that you need it, it's gonna take the number of weeks that you. Have for your experience and multiply it by a 110.  110 is the maximum amount that we will give you. For that expense. Per week, so $110 a week for food and living expenses. So if you click the box, you don't have to calculate anything, it will calculate for you. The caveat is we do have students that just need, they might not, if they're not. Asking for rent. And you are just commuting to and from an experience and you only need lunch money. So you, we can cover that. We ask that you actually say no to the food and living expenses. So if you're like at home and your parents are paying for breakfast and dinner and like that you got laundry taking care of all of that. We say no to that. And just add your what you would need for your daily lunch amount. You know, whatever, $15 a day for lunch. Put that in the other category and put that total in that other category. That will help us as we kind of review budgets and know how to allocate and have a more reasonable picture of what you're asking. For in your expenses. So I hope that makes sense, but. All I could say is be as detailed as possible. You don't need to total any of it. Once you put all your amounts for each category and you press save. The total expenses will pop up. Once you hit the save button, it will show all the total amount. And that's the first number that we use to try to determine the award amount. The next thing that we consider, again, because this is about expenses minus income. As we ask your income. If you are making money, even if you're making minimum wage, make sure that your taking out the taxes, Social Security and all that. All we want to know is your take home pay. So there is this link to the smart taxes. So it will help you determine based on where you're working and what you're doing and how many hours it will help you determine based on where you're working and what you're doing and how many hours. It will take out or tell you how much those taxes should be in general. It's about 25% of your total pay is taken out of in taxes. Usually a third to a 25%. So if you're making $15 An hour for 40 hours. Just make sure to consider that when you're doing the math. Don't put the. The total number, put the money that you're gonna take on. We ask you to be honest if you're gonna work a summer job outside of this put that income really this award is going to people who don't. Can't do the summer job, can't make their expenses. It's not about saving, getting money for savings for next year. This is really about paying your expenses. So we ask you to be honest with us about that. And if you're applying for other funding, make sure you list the amount or that if you're thinking about getting funding, there's a lot of places. Campus that provide funding and we actually talked so don't try to hide it either we actually reach out to these folks and like ask who's getting funding from other offices and a lot of offices already use the experience site so we can see it too. On our end, whether you have applied to other awards. So we can see it too, on our end, whether you have applied to other awards. So be honest with us and on our end, whether you have applied to other awards. So be honest with us, on our end, whether you have applied to other awards. So be honest with us. And, we ask you to be honest spread the award out to as many students as possible. Like it's not because we're trying to like, you know. Not give you something, but we want to give it to as many students as possible. So if you are making income, it's helpful for us to know it so we're giving you the right amount of award. Again, when you hit save, it's gonna give you not just your income when that totals all that, but it will. Take the expenses. It will subtract your income and that becomes your total award amount. So again, maybe you're asking for $5,000 you're making 2,000 take home your award amount is $3,000. This year we're asked adding a question of what do you think you need for your award? Now, We added that with the cat like kind of the notion of maybe the difference between your your expenses in your income is $3,000. But I, you saved a thousand dollars and you plan to use it this summer. So really all you need is $2,000. That's where you can use this space for 2,000. Now. If you put a number above what we've calculated, we probably aren't going to give you above that. We will only give you what the total award. So. No, what do you think you need is usually if you just need less than what the total amount is, not more. So keep that in mind, be honest with us. Again, because we want to spread this money and this ran out to as many students as possible. The last I see a question about the in the chat and we'll I'll get to that probably at the end because we're almost done with the rest of the application pages. The other pages, there's one last like if you wanna throw out any additional information that's helpful for us to know. This is helpful if you're doing 2 experiences or you just like, there's just stuff that you didn't get to cover in the essays or the financial aid information section. You could put that. We do ask for the best, I would say. Do take this seriously because we've gotten a lot of not great resumes. We are career professionals. We know how to review a good resume. So go get your resume reviewed if you want to before you apply but you will need to do a just a PDF copy of your resume as part of this. As well as a PDF or like a screenshot, a picture screenshot of the email confirmation that you got that says you have this offer. You don't have to accept the offer but just having the offer. Is enough for us. And then there's like, it's a signature, but it's like a digital checkbox, like everything on this is correct. And then you hit submit. Hit the submit button. Don't forget that. I've had a lot of students who've done the whole application. And didn't hit submit. And then it's like, 11:59 at or it's 12:00 am on the sixteenth and then they can't submit it. So make sure to do that. Did you general timeline already said the deadline is April fifteenth Right at midnight, so making sure that you get everything in before that Monday when it closes. We have all the colleges have someone in their college to review the applications. In Arts and Sciences, it's almost the whole entire staff looking at it, but there's a committee member that sits on the committee with that mic needs. Who will review those applications? It will take us a couple of weeks to do that and decide to decide how many people we can accept the award. And that's when we send conditional notices. So we'll send you an email saying you've been conditionally accepted to the award. We ask you to do 2 things after you've been conditionally accepted. We ask that we'll send an automated email to your supervisor. That's really why it's really important for your supervisor to be correct. And they send out like a call trick form just saying that. You know, yep, I'm doing this experience. This person's not getting paid or the payment that receiving is the same as. The payment. That you put on your application. Are you working the hours that you say so basically that everything you're saying and the employer saying it's lining up? We also ask you to do a grant. Basically a one lash time is like if you've received any funding from other sources to disclose that. In this process. So once those that grant disclosure form is done, and the, we get the thing from your supervisor about the experience verification and if you're traveling internationally that you get either the itart approval or the registry approval or the registry approval, those. So those 3 things, that's when we can give you the contract. So then you go back into the and all this will be on the Experience site or through the Experience site. You go back into the experience, I accept the award. And this year we're, distributing funds through what's the shared service center. So not through the verses office. It will just be either a check that gets cut to you. There is a way to get it direct deposit, but we'll give you all the instructions on how to do that if it comes to that conditional or that contract phase. If you do get the award, we ask you to complete a reflection. That includes taking a, you know, providing a photo of yourself at your experience as well as some things that you learned from the experience. That's kind of a general timeline. And I kind of talked about this a little bit more in detail, but. We get we're hoping to get the first round of conditional acceptances by the second week of May. Financial aid considerations. Like I said, you're gonna be sending that financial aid summary. I will say that if you get this award in your on financial aid, don't accept it until you understand how this could affect your aid for the 2024- 25 school year it has the potential to affect your aid because you're not in a period of enrollment and you're getting money, it's seen as income. And so that's one thing that you'll be in the contract. Alright, talk about, you know, the forms that need to be fair. Until we get an agree, a contract where you say, I agree to all these things and that I'm getting this money for these purposes. We won't send you any money. So you have to do that part. And then the one other thing is we do ask for receipts for major purchases. So if you're traveling and you've got a flight or bus ticket. Any housing, your rent, even if it's just a screenshot of the Venmo when you're Venmoing don't use emojis say I'm paying for the for the month of June for $900 in those comments and don't do a house and a flying money sign and the word 900 right. To say who you are, what you're doing in your comments. And then you can just save those as screenshots. That would be an acceptable. Documentation. And again, take a photo. Make sure you're in it, not just the, I've gotten a lot of pictures of like, here's the entrance way. So like building, I'm working, you know, you should be in the photo. And if you can't take photos with the people, like just get someone that you're working with to take a picture in front of the building you work wherever it is. Just do that for us. This one thing is most of the funding is donor. Given by donors. And so we share that information back to the donors and that helps us generate more funds later. So it's really helpful for you to do the reflection in the photo because that really helps us in our donor relationship. To continue to maintain these funds. The future. That's kind of the process. I wanted to give an opportunity to ask questions. Feel free to ask in the chat. I know someone did ask it does the lower award amount increase your chances of receiving one? We don't really do it that way. We really It's really about how well you fill out your application and what your need is. So really the first thing is filling out your application well and we will use as much funds. We'll give that to the person that does their application the best will get the funding they need until we don't have the funding anymore so we kind of go down the list from there. If you want other questions. One thing I do wanna add, and I think Sam did a did a great job, going through the different parts of the summer experience grant. Yeah. Just 2 items number one is we created a document on the SEG website called common, expenses, tip tips. Yeah. And that document is organized by common locations. Of past summer experience grant awardees. And so for example, in a place like New York City, there's a lot, a lot of schools in the city. That support student interns that are not enrolled in that school during the summer. And because of that, those, Those housing opportunities are a lot more cost effective. So I wanted to make sure. That, everyone was aware. Of that I have the, is the website up for you all? I had it up and Yeah, I can see it. Can everybody see that website? Oh, Mike, can you see it? Okay, so I will just show you all the website if you I think we're there's a link to that eligibility screening. I was trying to think where the link to the common expenses tip she is. Oh here, it's probably in this. Yep. Yep. For the common expenses can be found here. And so you can see and it gives like all of those like New York City housing like that's in in all these cities. Especially if it's a college in those cities offer student housing. Those are usually the most for some of the most affordable. Not always in New York City. Like MIT and Columbia tend to be really expensive, but there's other agencies that have. Absolutely. Less they're less than those big And Washington and Boston are also places to look at that. What we did. Nope. Maybe, might that might be a good one to add, cause I feel like. And I'm sorry that I missed that but. Yeah. No, that's okay. We can add that one. I thought it was. I know that is a big place that students do go. The other, so if you look here, this is the experience site. I reference that. That's the place where you go and if you wanted to see a preview of all the questions you could just go here to application preview. It isn't some of these are logic based questions, so depending on how you answer. Then it will show up but you can get at least a better. You know, sense of what an application would look like, especially with those essay questions. So that you can write it out in word beforehand. Someone did ask the question of how it could affect your financial aid. So I'm not a person who works. In the financial aid office, nor am I an expert. I think that if you plan, if you get that conditional acceptance, my recommend our recommendation is that you go to financial aid and say, I am getting this amount. And I'm on financial aid. How will it affect my financial aid? They should be able to answer you. What I found last year, it was kind of mixed on who it affected and who did it based on and it was all via, I think if you're on like full aid, it probably is not gonna affect you. We found that it. If you it would affect the 2 things that would affect is any. Federal work study if you are eligible for federal work study in any. Federal loan that you get. So I should say I do know that it's only affecting your federal work study in your federal loans. If you have all Cornell grants, it won't affect anything Cornell is gonna give you. Only what the federal government gives you. And that's just because of how they write. The department, education and  writes financial aid policy. Someone asked about 2 different experiences. It's okay if you're doing two experiences. Say maybe you're doing, I've had students where they're doing one month, they're shadowing at this kind of doctor and then next month they're shadowing at a different kind of doctor. So we would see that as collectively. Like you're doing an experience. For the whole summer. So I think that would be, something that we consider and we do the verifications for both experiences. But you like I said it looks it doesn't look any different than if you're just applying to one and sometimes that helps students meet those qualifications for. The whole summer. Is there any other questions we can add? Yes, I'm gonna go back to. The PowerPoint but if you do have questions email the SEG at. There's also a lot of information on the website. I just shared. There's also in Arts and Sciences, you can sign up to meet with me during my kind of office hours for SEG. I'm happy to talk to students about tips for filling out the application. What their experience is, their eligibility. Yeah. Sometimes I've been giving students a little bit of advice. And I know that the college at least, I know ILR, a couple of the other colleges, Engineering and I don't know if AAP, but each college should have it a couple of, if you go to the drop in hours in the, zone, they can help you with the application. So try to go to your colleges career office to kind of get the advice on how to fill up the application. There's a representative from each of our career offices on the committee that can kind of knows the process. It has read these before and they could help you with it. I think if that's all, if you don't have any other questions, we'll go ahead and, I'm gonna stop sharing and We are stop recording. And I think we're all set. Thank you so much for attending. And like I said, we'll get these slides up on the website as soon as possible, but we'll also Get the video of this up on the website probably within the next week or so.