How do you obtain financial Aid, grant loans or assistances to help with college?

Question

How do I go about in obtaining financial aid?

Answer 1

I have seen most of the answers in this question directing you towards the FAFSA. That is an excellent place to start, because this is how you will be getting federal aid (including grants and loans) through your school. The next place you need to be looking is your school's financial aid office. Thy should be able to point you in the direction of obtaining need-based, merit-based, or minority grants or scholarships. If you are out of high school, sometimes the guidance office in your old high school can help you out.

I would steer away from websites that offer scholarship advice. The only one with any repute is fastweb.com, which will send you several scholarship according to criteria you put in, and interests.

If you do not feel that you qualify for scholarship or grants, you can then try to receive the rest of your costs via private loans. Your financial aid office should send you a financial aid agreement offering you federal money, then explaning the rest that you need to make up, including room and board and such. You need to look at this vry carefully to see if you need to borrow less than the maximum amount. Then, go about looking into private loans through your school. The school may have a preferred lender, such as TheAccessGroup or Student Loan Corporation.

that is the way I usually handle my aid. For more general information, you can look at the You Can Deal With It website.

Answer 2

The first stop should always be with the school's financial aid office. You will need to push for time and advice, but they are very knowledgeable and should be able to provide some assistance.

Two government sites that should help are:
http://studentaid.ed.gov/
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

They provide a good overview of federal financial aid programs.

Student loans are still an option. Your daughter can get a Stafford Loan ( www.StaffordLoan.com ) without any credit checks. If you apply for a PLUS Loan ( www.ParentPLUSLoan.com ) and are rejected because of your credit, your daughter should be able to borrow additional funding through the Stafford Loan.

Grants and scholarships are always the best way to pay. Find some options on-line at:
http://www.studentscholarshipsearch.com
and other on-line websites.

Finally, see if you can find local resources where you can talk to someone personally about financial aid options. Some public libraries have a college advice center...

Search in Google - most scholarship out there can be found in Google...

Answer 3

The FAFSA form will help you access need based financial aid from the federal and state governments along with money from the college itself. Also, if you are currently attending high school, you can find local scholarships at your high school guidance office. Also, the college financial aid office and website also provide a wealth of information. If it is for the fall semester, FAFSA can be applied for after January 1. If a person is looking for outside scholarships too, you can start applying for them now. Good luck!

Answer 4

Still fill out the FAFSA because it does not only send out Pell Grants. Check with his school as well to see what type of continuing education grants or scholarships they offer. I would highly reccommend looking into what the community college offers though as well. You can complete a degree in half the time and more than half the cost, and all of the degrees are highly marketable. At my community college, we offer Nursing and many other medical fields, as well as architecture, computer systems and programming, automative, etc. Many community colleges offer medical or vetinary assistant, and so on. Those are all great fields to go into and will be very secure. Also, community colleges are generally more welcoming to a continuing education student and have more financial aid available to them.

Answer 5

FAFSA form. Try www.fafsa.ed.gov. Anything else is probably a scam. I heard of people paying to fill out a financial aid form. That was a scam. FAFSA is the Free Application For Student Aid. Also, the best place to get started is at your college or the college you plan to attend.They can inform you of scholarships you might be able to get or help you with the FAFSA.

Answer 6

Check out Federal Student Aid Web Site or FAFSA http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

I suggest you explore all federal funding and grant options at the Federal Student Aid website http://federalstudentaid.ed.gov/

You may also want to read the Handbook of the Pell Grant -- this is an 86 page document that contains everything about the grant
http://ifap.ed.gov/sfahandbooks/attachments/0203Vo3MasterFile.pdf

Or you can call the Federal Student Aid Information Center http://www.ed.gov/programs/fpg/gtepfpg.pdf at 1-800-433-3243 and ask them if there are any programs for women of your age

Aside from FAFSA http://www.fafsa.ed.gov and Pell Grant http://www.ed.gov/programs/fpg/index.html , you may want to explore private foundation grants

For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) and their opening blurb says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." You may be able to find grants from private foundations.

Answer 7

Start by filling out a FASFA form for federal financial aid. You can do it online. Just do a search for FASFA. All federal grants require this. Then go to your college financial aid office to find out what state aid is available. There are LOTS of scams out there so beware, but FASFA is where you will have to start. HOpe this helps!

Answer 8

You must apply for most things. Fill out a FAFSA (application for) on line for government assistance (FAFSA.gov). Grants and loans, ask any bank about student loans, go to Fastweb.com for scholarships oppurtunities and such or OnlineStudentFinacialAid.com

Answer 9

so u basically have the same answer many diff. ways. FAFSA, also talk to an financial aid specialist if u need help!

Answer 10

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