Financial Aid Basics
FAFSA is an acronym that stands for this FAFSA is an acronym that stands for this
Free Application for Federal Student Aid
This is the earliest students can complete the FAFSA every year.
What is October 1st?
What does COA stand for?
What is Cost of Attendance?
These are the 3 forms of financial aid
What is Grants/Scholarships, Loans and Work Study?
This scholarship is awarded to students have a high school GPA of 3.0 in Georgia.
What is the HOPE scholarship?
The amount of credits a student must be enrolled in to be considered full time financial aid eligible?
12 Credits
This is what you need before starting your FAFSA application.
What is a FSA ID?
These are 3 things considered as "indirect costs" for Cost of Attendance.
What are transportation, housing, food, personal expenses?
The scholarship Adela received in 2016.
This is the scholarship students with a high school GPA of 3.7 AND an SAT score of 1200 or ACT of 26 receive in Georgia
What is the Zell Miller Scholarship?
The place you go if you have questions about your financial aid.
What is the Financial Aid Office?
This is the number you put as your parent's social security number if they are undocumented.
What is 000-00-0000 as the social security number?
Do not enter a Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) or a stolen social security number. (This will create issues with the application, because those numbers will fail to data match with the Social Security Administration.)
What 3 things are considered "direct costs" as part of Cost of Attendance?
What are tuition, fees, and books?
The type of load with no interest is accumulated while in school.
What is a subsidized loan?
True or False: Students can regain the HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship if they bring their GPA back up.
What is true?
This is what you get if you paid more than the actual cost of your attendance.
A Refund Check!
Name 1 qualifying event that can change in financial status due to a special circumstance.
What is a loss of a job, serious illness, disability, significant medical expenses, separation or divorce, death in the family?
One of the following schools has the lowest COA. Public 4 year university, private 4 year university, or 2 year community college.
What is a community college?
This website has scholarships for all students regardless of documentation status.
This scholarship is only available in 10 cities, Atlanta is one them.
What is the Posse Scholarship?
The formula to calculate a student's financial need.
COA - EFA = Student Financial Need
The difference between the cost of attending the school, the Cost of Attendance (COA) minus any expected financial assistance (EFA), such as gifts or outside scholarships, and the amount the student and their family is expected to pay, the
Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
If the student’s FAFSA is selected for verification, the parents will be required to provide this document.
What is an IRS tax transcript by filing IRS Form 4506-T?
Requesting an IRS tax transcript online will speed up the process.
This is the name of the calculator you can use to calculate your COA.
What is a Net Price Calculator?
What is the name of the grant that provides need-based grants to low-income undergraduate and certain post baccalaureate students to promote access to post secondary education.
Policy 4.3.4 prevents undocumented/DACAmented students from paying this.
What is In-State tuition?