2006-12-26 16:08:35 · 6 answers · asked by Andria 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Financial Aid
You will only be eligible for half the Pell Grant for the year because you will only be attending college for half the year.
Good Luck!!!
BTW - you should still fill out the FAFSA asap even if you aren't going to attend college until the spring semester because you might loose out on the potential of some state based financial aid if you don't get your application out before the state deadline.
Update - I think twice wise is right in saying to you there is no reason to postpose starting college for a semester - its not going to get easier - in fact it might be very odd for you to start midway through what would have been your first year of college - you might be better off as a cousin of mind did who took a full year off from school after high school. Anyway that is just a thought
Good Luck Again!!!
2006-12-26 16:12:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking the semester off should be no problem in accessing the Pell Grant. There are adults out there who have gotten them even after taking more than a semester off but a couple of years. I have included some helpful resources.
2006-12-26 17:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by dawncs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing wrong with waiting a semester, but while you wait that semester if you make money, it will affect how much you get in a pell grant, so while waiting that semester do something where you either get your salary in the form of free room and board, or do something on a cash basis so it doesn't show up in your income and knock you out of pell grant contention. i.e. babysitting or yard work
2006-12-27 00:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by globallylegal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i waited and i worked. nothing will happen any diffrent. if your parent claim you, you are a dependant student and you would have to make a goog bit of money for them not to give you most of the money, they really go by your parents info. anyway you can pretty much wait as long as you want. my great aunt goes on pell...she is old and waited MANY years. BUT if you wait then go and fail, you will be on financial aid probation!
2006-12-27 01:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by marketa l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actual your college ought to have an adviser for basically this very ingredient. Ask your instructors I dont think of the funds cuts are turning out to be to them yet. The question is, is your GPA intense adequate so you might graduate? If no longer, summer season college! possibly there are in straightforward terms a constrained amout of classes you could take for the period of summer season college so ask your advisers approximately taking community college instructions while you're in intense college for top college credit. they could particularly lay out a plan for you they are there to help. yet you quite ought to evaluate your priorities because of the fact if your GPA is that low you have got neglected the particularly some fundamentals which you're able to desire to proceed to exist even in community college. Your education ought to particularly be hurting without possibility of restoration, without extreme dedication meaning education has to return in the previous hockey. Take it from somebody that has no longer been in intense college for a at the same time as and is conscious what unemployment increasing, and the value of residing increasing skill for babies who would be graduating, its undesirable information. nicely good good fortune.
2016-11-23 19:00:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have to check with your financial aid office for sure. Why do you want to wait a semester? It won't get any easier. You should just plow forward and get it done! May God bless your decision!
2006-12-26 16:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by twicewise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋