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[00:00:00] Welcome to MEFA Pathway, the interactive destination where students can build their educational and career plans, explore various paths, and make better informed choices to achieve success after high school and beyond. It’s simple to get started, and you can even choose your preferred language to guide you on your way.

You will be able to make this journey entirely your own in several ways. For starters, you’ll have your very own dashboard that will help you stay on track and you’ll be able to create your very own unique profile. An overview of what makes you you creating your profile is also the first step in building your personalized digital portfolio.

An ever-changing visual snapshot of your interests, skills, honors awards, and activities. Watch as your digital portfolio grows to encompass more of what excites and appeals to you and helps to identify your future path. You’ll want to keep your [00:01:00] profile up to date as you gain more experiences. Both in and out of school.

Updating your profile also triggers the creation of a personalized resume summarizing all you have to offer. What’s more? You can build a course plan to help you stay on track with graduation requirements and even add custom courses and projects. Students can set out on this journey as early as middle school as they use MEFA Pathway to get to know themselves better through informative, great, appropriate activities and assessments that reveal their interests, values, skills, and talents, and to see how their interests, skills, and talents might point them toward particular careers.

Are you artistic or analytical? Might you be a future designer or an accountant? Dive in. You might be surprised by what you discover about yourself. Search a wide range of career categories to discover the types of jobs associated [00:02:00] with them. Explore what it takes to be prepared for jobs that may appeal to you.

Learn which careers and skills are trending, where their most needed and which have the most potential for future growth. And see what types of skills, knowledge, and experience will better position you for future success on the career path of your choice. When it comes time to research colleges, MEFA Pathway allows you to assemble appealing options that meet your preferred criteria, such as location, size, or setting, and to see how colleges stack up against one another.

By comparing available details, including academics, tuition, cost, and even admission difficulty. MEFA Pathway has all the tools you’ll need to prepare for and apply to college, and allows you to manage all of your college applications in one convenient digital location. You can request letters of recommendation [00:03:00] and transcripts.

It also features seamless integration with the common application. And allows documents to be sent electronically through Parchman to make it even easier for students and counselors. Additionally, you can learn about various ways to pay for school with helpful tools to improve your financial literacy, and discover how choices you make today can impact your financial future.

MEFA Pathway also features a vast array of helpful resources for educators, including lesson plans and training webinars designed to improve how you guide students and their families through the post-secondary planning process. So take your first steps toward using MEFA Pathway today to better plan and prepare for your bright future.