Fin Aid
The four types of financial aid
What is grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study?
FAFSA is an acronym for
What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
CADAA is an acronym for
What is the California Dream Act Application?
The purpose of Webgrants 4 Students
What is to manage your Cal Grant and/or Chafee account(s) online by letting you view updates, make school changes, make address changes, make corrections, and post leave of absence requests?
Juliana lives with her grandparents while her parents live in a different country. How should she file her FAFSA?
Unless Juliana's grandparents have legally adopted her, she is a dependent student for financial aid purposes. Therefore, she must provide parental information. If the parent(s) are working in a foreign country, currency amounts need to converted to dollars for calculating income, taxes, and asset values. The parent(s) will need to print the signature page, sign, and mail to the FAFSA Processor, UNLESS one of the parents is eligible to obtain an FSA ID.
The four sources of financial aid
What is Federal, State, Institutional, and Private?
Reason why students are getting kicked out of the FAFSA application and routed to home page?
What is because they are pressing enter on their keyboard instead of clicking the "next" button with their mouse?
Who can apply for the CA Dream Act?
Who is Undocumented students, DACA holders, U Visa holders, and individuals with Temporary Protected Status?
Required to complete on Webgrants in order for a student to claim their Cal Grant award
What is confirmation of the school of attendance and the high school graduation confirmation?
Elizabeth’s father is currently divorced and is the custodial parent. For the past 5 years, his girlfriend has been living with him, along with the girlfriend's son. He provides over 50% financial support for both of them. What is the Elizabeth's household size and how should she file her fin aid application?
Being that California is not a common law state, her father's marital status will still be "divorced. Therefore, Elizabeth's household size is 2 and she should only include information about her father.
The maximum amount of money given currently for a Pell grant
What is $6,095?
Reason for receiving the following error on your FAFSA: "The FSA ID you provided does not match the parent information provided on the FAFSA."
What is the information (Name, DOB or SSN) used to create an FSA ID is not an EXACT MATCH with the information inputed on the FAFSA.
Required after males submit their Dream Act application in order to receive financial aid
What is to register for Selective Service using the paper Selective Service form and mailing it directly to Selective Service?
Beginning in ____, students who have been awarded a Cal Grant can begin to confirm their school (college) of attendance
What is February?
Sara had a baby in her senior year of high school. She lives with her parents and is unemployed. However, her boyfriend provides all the financial support for their baby. Is Sara dependent or independent for financial aid purposes?
If Sara is providing more than 50% of her baby’s support, she can consider her baby as her dependent when completing her FAFSA. As such, Sara would be an independent student for financial aid purposes. Cash support received from the boyfriend and government benefit programs can be considered when trying to meet the “more than 50%” threshold. As long as the support is coming from sources other than Sara's parents, Sara can count it as part of her support of her baby.
Name 3 types of CA State Aid
What is BOG Fee Waiver, Cal Grant, Chafee Grant, MCS, UC Grant, SU Grant?
Process for a student to correct their SSN on their FAFSA
What is contacting the Federal Student Aid Information Center and requesting a copy of their SAR to make corrections?
Legislation that allows students who meet AB 540 criteria to apply for and receive state-funded financial aid
What is AB 131?
Date in which the high school graduation confirmation link will become active
What is on the first day of the month in which the student will be graduating?
Jonathan's aunt was established his legal guardian by an attorney. Can he claim on his FAFSA that someone other than his parent has legal guardianship of him?
No, a legal guardianship established by an attorney or notary is not sufficient. The legal guardianship must have been ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction in the student's state of legal residence.
Current income and asset threshold for the Middle Class Scholarship
What is $171,000?
The FAFSA deadline for 2019-2020 AY
What is June 30, 2020?
Form used when a student completes a FASFA when they should have completed the CADAA
What is G‐55: Application Conversion Form?
Ana is filling out her FAFSA application and is unable to retrieve her parents FSA ID. Her older sister created FSA ID's for both parents and no longer remembers the usernames, passwords, challenge questions, or emails. What steps should Ana take to submit her parent signature.
First, Ana's parents should contact the Federal Student Aid Information Center to regain access to her FSA ID. This can be done through the chat center. They will need to provide their full name, DOB, SSN, and an active email address. The information center will then begin the process for verifying their identity, which will take 7-10 business days. Upon regaining access to their FSA ID, Ana's parents can electronically sign her FAFSA.