FAFSA & TASFA Frenzy
What does TASFA stand for?
What is Texas Application for State Financial Aid
Who is the lender for federal student loans?
What is U.S. Department of Education?
The most common federal grant for undergraduate students demonstrating financial need?
What is the Pell Grant?
This type of financial aid is awarded based on things like academics, talent, or leadership and best of all, it doesn’t have to be repaid?
What is a scholarship?
This state agency, created in 1965, oversees public higher education in Texas and manages state financial aid programs for colleges and universities?
What is the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)?
Elijah, Ashley, Scarlett, and Judith are known for being helpful, hardworking, and always ready to assist the office. They’re also part of this program that allows students to earn money while gaining valuable experience?
What is the Work-Study Program?
This is the length of the typical grace period after a borrower graduates, leaves school, or drops below half-time.
What is six months?
This program offers eligible students from participating Texas high schools a combination of federal, state, and institutional funding to cover tuition and mandatory fees for up to four years.
What is the Promise Program?
This automatic award recognizes incoming freshmen for strong academic performance, with renewable funding for up to four years.?
What is the UNT Excellence Scholarship?
Founded in 1967, this national association provides training, resources, and advocacy for financial aid professionals across the United States?
What is NASFAA (National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators)?
What Information Is Required When Inviting a Contributor To Complete the FAFSA for 2026-27?
What is email address?
This federal program for graduate and professional students will be eliminated under the Big Beautiful Bill.
What is the Graduate PLUS (Grad PLUS) Loan program?
This federal program provides additional campus-based grant funding to students with exceptional financial need.
What is the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)?
Out-of-state students who receive at least $1,000 in competitive scholarships from UNT may qualify for this special tuition benefit that allows them to pay the in-state rate?
What is the Competitive Scholarship Waiver?
In Texas, the first state financial aid programs for college students began appearing during this decade, helping students pay for tuition at public colleges?
What is the 1950s?
This federal reporting system, overseen by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, collects institutional data on enrollment, graduation, and financial aid for public transparency?
What is the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)?
Under the Big Beautiful Bill, this is the new lifetime borrowing limit across all federal student loans (excluding Parent PLUS)
What is $257,500?
This secure document management system keeps thousands of student financial aid files organized and accessible but only after they’re scanned and indexed?
What is Perceptive Content?
This new scholarship platform is replacing the old, letting students apply for multiple scholarships with one streamlined application?
What is AwardSpring?
The first Financial Aid Day was celebrated in this year?
What is 2010?
After last year’s delayed rollout, this year’s 2026–2027 FAFSA officially launch on this date?
What is September 24th?
Under the Big Beautiful Bill, this will be the only two repayment options for new loans starting July 1, 2026.
What are the new Standard Repayment Plan and the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP)?
Before the Pell Grant existed, this program provided federal need-based funding to undergraduates starting in 1965?
What is the BEOG (Basic Educational Opportunity Grant)?
This Texas program provides scholarship funding to high school students who graduate early with a Texas First Diploma and attend a Texas public institution of higher education.
What is the Texas First Program?