When it comes to paying for college, your parents are usually shoulder in the burden of doing the research and learning the process.

But students can be involved in the process too.

At the Jay Brown School in Jefferson County, a class called Senior Seminar is helping high schoolers learn how to take the wheel when it comes to navigating their path after high school.

Our Christine paid them a visit to learn more.

If you have applied and have a transcript, transcripts, scholarships, S.a.t.s, and GPAs for many high school seniors, the road to college can be a complicated one.

But at J. Graham Brown School, there's a class that turns the chaos into clarity.

But then that last link, you have to link 502 to your Fafsa.

A senior seminar class taught by Nora Wakefield that guides students through the college application process and helps them find scholarships.

Also, lock in your tuition rate at a lower level to bring down the cost of higher learning.

They will pick their school and hopefully have it paid for.

The process starts in their junior year, optimizing A.C.T.

and SAT scores and exploring colleges in junior seminar.

We'll do quite a few college visits and we bring in college reps, because I really think that if you start looking senior year, it's too late.

And once senior year begins, Nora Wakefield's class concentrates on applying to colleges.

She's always on college applications, always as our main focus is as we come and sit down.

Honestly, the process to application, I thought it was a lot easier than it was, but like it's a lot more and but it's like I think the class, if I wasn't in that class, I think I'd be struggling very hard.

And the demands of applying for college can be stressful because it's a lot more than just applying.

It's about being personable in your essay.

It's ensuring that you get the proper amount of scholarships, and just ensuring that you keep your life balanced while you're going through the college process.

The Senior seminar class serves as a guide to make this process as smooth as possible.

Evolve 502.

You go to their link and you fill out the application.

It's very quick.

Then we help them apply, but we help them meet those deadlines for things like Fafsa, early applications versus early decision.

If you are eligible and you completely three steps, you will get the scholarship.

It's a guarantee.

It can be intimidating, and asking for help is intimidating.

And we need to take every obstacle away.

But there's one more big obstacle left.

Paying for College Senior Seminar helps students with that too.

With lots and lots of scholarships and scholarship programs, grant a ton of scholarships.

We help kids with their Quest Bridge applications.

We help them with their Jack Kent Cooke applications.

Coke scholars, doctor Pepper nowhere else are students going to have somebody that's hand feeding them these lists of scholarships to apply for.

Nora is always on it.

She always has a scholarship for us to apply to.

Every little bit of scholarship.

When you get help and a little bit can add up to a lot.

We have a whole row of million dollar scholars.

Students apply for scholarships and they apply to different institutions and that total amount is $1 million.

But that's not $1 million to one institution, more than scholarships or even college.

Nora Wakefield wants her students to author their own destinies and live lives that are authentically and joyfully their own.

My success is my student success, and I cannot express to you how much I love them.

And having known some of them, you know, for 13 years, almost all their life.

It is so important to me that they are number one happy with when they leave.

I want them to be happy individuals and successful individuals, however they define that for.

I'm Christy Dutton.