Adult Reentry College Planning & Tools & Guides
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The Adult Reentry Risk Check is a free tool that takes less than 10 minutes. Find out if the timing, finances, and logistics actually work for your life before you make any moves.
Transcript & Transfer Credit Toolkit
Most adults accept whatever the school says about their credits. This toolkit shows you how to verify it and push back when it's wrong. Four tools: a credit audit worksheet, a conversation and decision tracking log, a plain-language guide to prior learning credit, and a ready-to-use dispute letter template.
GPA Forgiveness Guide
Your past GPA doesn't have to follow you back into school. Most adults don't know these options exist. This guide walks you through fresh start policies, academic renewal, grade forgiveness, and how your institutional GPA and financial aid GPA work separately, with research worksheets to document what your school actually offers and a petition letter template ready to send.
For Women Returning After Life Interruptions
She Came Back is a six section reentry guide for women returning to education after divorce, job loss, caregiving or any other life interruption. Covers financial readiness, enrollment options, support systems and decision timing.
For Single Parents and Student Moms
Managing a household and going back to school at the same time is one of the hardest things an adult learner can do. Running the House While Running to Class gives you the planning tools to manage your time, your budget, and your family responsibilities — so you can stay enrolled and keep moving forward. Structure is how you finish.
Count What You Have
41.9 million Americans have college credits and no degree. Most don't know what those credits are worth, whether they've expired, or how close they actually are to finishing. Count What You Have walks you through a complete credit audit so you know exactly where you stand — before you talk to anyone at a school.
Veterans Education Benefits & Family Planning Workbook
You earned these benefits. This workbook makes sure you actually use them. Eight sections covering benefit selection, the payment timeline, housing allowance rules, family benefits, and school selection, ending with a one-page action plan you fill in as you go.
Stability Audit
Returning to college takes more than motivation it takes stability. The Adult Reentry Stability Audit™ helps you assess the seven stability factors that determine whether going back to school will work with your life, finances, housing, childcare, employment, support systems, health, and time. Stop guessing. Start with the audit.
Flagship: Education Blueprint
A strategic decision system for adults seriously evaluating a return to college. Seven modules walk you through motivation, pathway selection, financial exposure, life capacity, career outcomes, and academic standing, ending with a Decisions Matrix that tells you exactly where you stand. Grounded in doctoral research on barriers to persistence among adult learners.
By Monique Wells-Lopez, Ed.D.
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