Cash Cab
(Grants)
Wheel of Fortune
(Need)
Deal or No Deal
(Loans)
Minute to Win It
(Financial Aid Building Blocks)
The Price is Right
(Multiple Choice)
100

This level of student is not eligible for a Pell Grant or FSEOG

What is a graduate student?

100

This campus-based program requires financial need, but does not require prioritization of highest need students

What is Federal Work Study?

100

The minimum enrollment level  required to borrow Federal Direct Loans

What is half time?

100

This is the name for a summer term which a school treats as the last term in a SAY (Standard Academic Year)

What is a trailer?

100

This item does NOT need to be reported to the student's loan servicer upon completion of school-provided exit counseling

1) Borrower's Name

2) Borrower's city and state of birth

3) Borrower's driver's license number and state of issuance

4) Borrower's next of kin

What is 2) Borrower's city and state of birth?

200

This grant turns into a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan if certain requirements are not met

What is the TEACH Grant?

200

The basic need equation is used to calculate Financial Need

What is Cost of Attendance (COA) - Student Aid Index (SAI)?

200

A need-based loan only available to undergraduate students

What is a Federal Direct Subsidized Loan?

200

The number of months a SAY (Standard Academic Year) is based on

What is nine months?

200

This type of Federal Direct Loan borrower does not have to complete entrance counseling

1) Parent first time borrower (Parent PLUS)

2) Undergraduate student first time borrower (Subsidized/Unsubsidized)

3) Graduate student first time borrower (Graduate PLUS)

What is 1) Parent first time borrower (Parent PLUS)?

300

This campus-based program has awards ranging from $100 -$4,000 and prioritizes Pell Grant recipients

What is FSEOG?

300

This need-based financial aid is available to both undergraduate and graduate students

What is Federal Work Study (FWS)?

300

These PLUS loan borrowers have additional counseling requirements

Who are parents or graduates with adverse credit history?

300

Summer modules are combined and treated as a single term in this academic year type

What is a BBAY (Borrower Based Academic Year)?

300

This type of student is not subject to Federal Direct Loan Proration

1) Undergraduate students in a program shorter than one Academic Year (AY)

2) Graduate students in their final period of enrollment when it is shorter than one AY

3) Undergraduate students  in their final period of enrollment when it is shorter than one AY

What is 2) Graduate students in their final period of enrollment when it is shorter than one AY?

400

Dependent student's parent(s) or independent students who were not required to file taxes are automatically given these two things

What is -1500 SAI and Maximum Pell?

400

This calculation uses information provided on the FAFSA to calculate a standard SAI to be used for all periods of enrollment

What is the Federal Methodology?

400

This is the Graduate Aggregate Loan Limit

What is $138,500?

400

Cost of Attendance (COA) cannot be expanded to include costs of other family members, except in this case

What is dependent care?

400

This item is NOT part of the Basic Cost of Attendance Components

1) Tuition and Fees

2) Transportation

3) Miscellaneous Expenses

4) License, Certification or Credential

What is 4) License, Certification or Credential?

500

This is the percentage of full time enrollment at which a student is enrolled, rounded to nearest whole percent

What is Enrollment Intensity?

500

The acronym FSEOG stands for this

What is Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant?

500

The 1.057% or 4.228% deducted from each Federal Direct Loan disbursement

What is a loan origination fee?

500

In student budget construction, costs can be divided into these TWO broad categories

What are Institutional and Non Institutional costs?

500

This factor does NOT impact Pell Grant amount:
1) Enrollment Intensity

2) Available Funding

3) Program Length

4)  Cost of Attendance

What is 2) Available Funding?

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