Scholarships
FAFSA
Dates
Acronyms
Miscellaneous
100

Scholarships are a financial resource for students seeking financial aid, and students should report outside (non SMU) scholarships to this office.

What is the Financial Aid Office?

100

The abbreviation for Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

What is FAFSA?

100

The date you can submit the FAFSA.

What is October 1st?

100

FAFSA

What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid??

100

A popular board game instructs "Do not pass go. Do not collect.." this amount of money.

What is $200?

200

If your brother, sister, mother, father or grandpa graduated from SMU, you likely received this scholarship. 

What is the Legacy Award?

200

What are 3 types of financial aid.

What is grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study?

200

Saint Martin's Priority Filing date for your FAFSA submission

What is January 1?

200

FAFSA

What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?

200

Name of a federal grant.

What is Pell 

or

What is Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant 

(SEOG)

300

This event was held at SMU on April 30, and over 200 potential freshmen students and their families attended. 

What is Benedictine Scholars Day?

300

The FAFSA needs to be completed this often.

What is every year?

300

The last day of the Spring 2019 term on SMU's Lacey Campus.

What is May 11?

300

DRT

What is Data Retrieval Tool?


(The IRS data retrieval tool built into your FAFSA)

300

This "Men in Black" star turned down a scholarship offer at MIT to pursue a rap career.

Who is Will Smith?

400

This Scholarship is awarded to a student when an Alumni, parent, or friend of SMU nominates him/her based on their "ability to thrive in and contribute to the Saints Community".

What is the Alumni and Friends Scholarship?

400

You use this to sign your financial aid application online.

What is the FSA AID?

400

This event is Saint Martin's signature student scholarship fundraising event.

What is The Gala?

400

COA

What is Cost of Attendance?

400

The amount of months that pass before you must repay your federal loans

What is 6 months?

500

This type of internal scholarship is awarded to freshmen students, and is based on a combination of high school GPA, class rank, SAT or ACT Scores, and community service and leadership.  

This scholarship is renewable for up to four years, and includes Chancellor's, President's, Dean's, etc. 

What are Merit Scholarships? 

500

This term is used when the Financial Aid Office requires documentation to review the information on your FAFSA.

What is verification?

500

the numbered day in each term that SMU designates the last day to add/drop classes without designation? 

What is the 10th day? 

500

EFC

What is Expected Family Contribution?

500

This federal grant was named after a former US Senator. and originally implemented by President Lyndon B. Johnson

What is the Pell Grant?


(named after Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island)

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