What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
100
This is the most common process students must complete after filing the FAFSA. It involves a providing tax transcripts.
What is verification?
100
To be eligible for a loan disbursement, a student must complete these three federal forms.
What is the FAFSA, entrance counseling, and a master promissory note?
100
This regulation requires financial aid offices to look at a student's completion rate, GPA, and time to degree completion.
What is SAP or satisfactory academic progress
100
This is the most common form of federal free money given to undergraduate students.
What is the Pell grant?
200
A student that is under age 24, but is married or has children that they are supporting would have this status.
What is independent?
200
This report is produced after the student's FAFSA is processed. A link to this report is generally emailed to students and lists all of the items that the Department of Education is requesting that the student review or complete.
What is a Student Aid Report (SAR)?
200
The minimum number of credits an undergraduate student must enroll in per semester to remain eligible for a federal loan.
What is 6 credits?
200
This grade indicates that a student began work in a course, but does not intend to complete the class.
What is a W or withdrawal?
200
This smaller federal grant is awarded to students out of a pool of money given to their college.
What is FSEOG (SEOG) or the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunities Grant?
300
Students and parents that have already filed taxes for the year can use this, which fills in most of their financial information automatically.
What is the IRS data retrieval tool?
300
This document may be requested from a student that indicates on the FAFSA that they are a veteran.
What is a DD-214?
300
Students that fail SAP have the right to engage in this process?
What is a SAP appeal?
300
Unlike other types of aid, federal work study is not applied directly to a student's bill. Instead, a student receives this based on their pay rate and hours worked.
What is a paycheck?
400
This question triggers the Selective Service match. Skipping or leaving it blank can require student to provide follow up information to resolve a Selective Service flag.
What is "Are you male?"
400
These are two of the most common documents that can be used to verify U.S. citizenship.
What are U.S. passport (current or expired), U.S. birth certificate, or Certificate of Naturalization?
400
This website is the official record of a student's loan borrowing and enrollment history. It can be accessed by students and financial aid administrators at any time.
When a student's SAP appeal has been denied, the student has these two options to regain financial aid eligibility.
What is earn credit at another institution and transfer it back to the original institution or pay out of pocket for classes until SAP is met?
400
This Massachusetts state grant is awarded based on financial need and can cover up to the student's amount of tuition and fees.
What is the Mass Cash grant?
500
This process allow financial aid administrators to make changes to a student's FAFSA, moving them from dependent to independent, based on documentation of abandonment or abuse.
What is a dependency override?
500
This must be completed when a student's FAFSA information does not match up with Department of Homeland Security records.
What is secondary confirmation (or a form G-845)?
500
This is used to determine the year's federal student loan interest rates.
What is the 90 day T bill rate?
500
These are two issues students may face if they take longer than the published program length to complete their degrees.
What is the 150% SAP rule and Pell grant lifetime eligibility rules.
500
This Massachusetts state scholarship is awarded to students based on their standardized test performance and covers the amount of in-state tuition if a student attends full-time.