{"id":11209,"date":"2021-09-23T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11209"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:52:43","slug":"katrina-mellin-16","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/facultystaff\/katrina-mellin-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina Mellin &#8217;16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why I chose Admissions and Financial Aid<br><\/strong>Financial aid is often viewed as one of the most stressful parts of the college search process. I was a student at Macalester not too long ago and financial aid was always on my mind &#8211; would I be able to pay for the next semester? What did it mean to take out loans anyway? Now that I have answers to some of those kinds of questions, I want to help other Mac students complete their 4-year degrees with minimal financial stress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Favorite time of the year at Mac<br><\/strong>I love the campus in the fall! The physical space is picturesque and the students are full of energy and excitement for a new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love about the Twin Cities<br><\/strong>A plethora of cuisine options! You can find food from so many different places and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Community Involvement<\/strong><br>Post graduation, I served as an AmeriCorps volunteer with CollegePoint through <a href=\"https:\/\/collegepossible.org\/news\/collegepoint-announces-new-three-year-commitment\">College Possible<\/a>. CollegePoint is a non-profit near-peer model organization that serves high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students who usually had the idea that a private school was out of their reach and that their best option was the local state school. As a student I was a QuestBridge applicant so I worked closely with students in CollegePoint who were applying via QuestBridge (match and non-match applicants).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":11227,"template":"","class_list":["post-11209","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16213,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11209\/revisions\/16213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}