Reminders: Tonight! Jess is doing a Scholarship and Financial Aid Understanding Information Session from 5pm-7pm in the Commons. You and your parents should come.
FAFSA INFO! IMPORTANT INFO!!
- The FAFSA is a free application you and your parents fill out for federal aid for college.
- This application determines two things: first if you qualify for the pell grant ($5,750 in free money) and determines what amount of student loans you qualify for. Second: it generates your EFC (estimated family contribution) the amount the federal government believes your family is able to spend on college.
- Your EFC is electronically sent to each college you apply to and your colleges build financial aid packages based off of this number.
- You always want to fill out the FAFSA even if you don’t qualify for the pell grant because the document will be used within your college and many scholarships.
- The FAFSA opened up in October of this year and you will use your parents and your 2015 taxes to complete. Make sure to fill it out as soon as possible for the maximum amount of aid.
***Jess will go over more of this information in her information session this evening. ***
(Follow instructions in the link)