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financial aid acronyms
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provides affordable financing to parents and guardians with good credit to cover educational expenses including tuition, supplies, and housing. The maximum loan amount is the student’s cost of attendance (determined by the school) minus any other financial aid received.
What is Federal Parent PLUS Loan
100
A paper or electronic document that gives you some basic information about your eligibility for federal student aid as well as listing your answers to the questions on your FAFSA
What is Student Aid Report (SAR)
100
financial aid that you dont have to pay back such as grants and scholarships
What is gift aid
100
people who have graduated from a college
What is alumni
100
An ice cream that is fruit flavored
What is sherbert
200
it loan that the government does not pay the interest on
What is Unsubsidized Student Loan
200
a free application to get access to the largest source of financial aid to pay for college, also to determine your eligibility for state and school aid
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
200
an award of financial aid given by colleges
What is scholarship
200
The degree granted by colleges after two years of study
What is Associate's Degree
200
The most common sundae topping
What is hot fudge
300
fixed-rate student loans for undergraduate and graduate students attending college at least half-time. Stafford loans (subsidized or unsubsidized) can be used to pay tuition and other school expenses.
What is Federal Stafford Loan
300
a measure of your family’s financial strength and is calculated according to a formula established by law.
What is Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
300
the difference between the financial aid eligibility and the amount you can afford
What is need gap
300
The person at college who helps you decide what calsses to take
What is Academic Advisor
300
small colorful ice cream topping
What is rainbow sprinkles
400
the government pays the interest on your loan while you’re in college
What is Subsidized Student Loan
400
College Scholarship Service (CSS)
What is required by private colleges, universities, graduate and professional schools, and scholarship programs to determine eligibility for non-federal financial aid
400
the program giving grants to New York state residents attending college in New York state
What is Tuition Assistance Program
400
The degree granted after four years of study
What is Bachelor's Degree
400
vanilla icream with fudge swirls and peanut butter cups
What is moose tracks
500
provides funds for part-time employment to help needy students to finance the costs of postsecondary education
What is Federal Work-Study Program
500
the total annual cost to attend college, taking into account tuition, room and board, books and supplies and other fees.
What is Total Cost of Attendance (COA)
500
money transferred to institutions to be given in forms of scholarships
What is endowment
500
How schools measure a stundents progress toward a diploma
What is credit
500
Healthier alternative to ice cream
What is frozen yogurt
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