College Costs Contributors
This contributor offers grants and scholarships to prospective students who demonstrate financial need or who possess qualities that they value.
This type of college has an average sticker price of $12,720.
What is a Public 2-year?
Grants and scholarships that do not have to be paid back are what?
What is free money?
These are different types of loan options for students.
What are subsidized/unsubsidized loans?
This is a full-ride College Match program that can match students with Ivy Leagues and other prestigious colleges.
What is the QuestBridge Scholars Program?
These contributors help with the cost through income from work, savings, and loans.
Who are students?
This type of college has an average net price of $14,959 for College Possible students.
What is a Private 4-year?
Money that you get to make college affordable. These funds must be paid back with interest.
What is borrowed money?
This is a figure provided by the college that estimates the total expense of attending the college for a year. It typically includes tuition, room and board, books, transportation and some personal Expenses.
What is Cost of Attendance?
This scholarship offers $10,000 and is available for students that have faced and overcome great obstacles in their young lives.
What is the Horatio Alger scholarship?
These contributors give money based on written submissions, test scores, or other displays of a students academic success and this money doesn't need to be payed back.
What are scholarships?
This type of college has an average net price of $954 for College Possible students.
What is a Public 2-year?
Work-study funds that you must work for.
This is a measure of a family’s financial need and eligibility for financial aid. Note that even though it sounds like the amount a family will have to pay, it is only an index or Estimate.
What is an Estimated Family Contribution (EFC)?
This type of scholarship requires no essay and can be completed in under 10 minutes.
What is a sweepstakes?
This contributor provides Grants and loans to students and families who demonstrate financial need by using the FAFSA.
What is the Federal Government?
This type of college has an average sticker price of $49,870.
What is a Private 4-year?
FAFSA stands for this.
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
These are loans offered to parents/guardians, which they are responsible for paying back with interest.
What is a PLUS/parent loan?
This grant is free money that you can receive if you are eligible after you complete the FAFSA.
What is a Federal Pell Grant?
This contributor offers additional grants and loan options to students who attend colleges in that state.
What is the State Government?
This type of college has the largest difference between Sticker Price and Net Price.
What is private 4-years?
ORSAA stands for this.
What is Oregon Student Aid Application?
This is a grant for students with the greatest financial need with the abbreviation SEOG.
What is Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant?
These are things a student might submit alongside the main point of a scholarship application (essay, portfolio, poem, etc). Hint: there are four things.
What is resume, letter(s) of recommendation, transcript, and test scores?