Financial Aid
Ensures that each student has sufficient financial resources to enable them to attend college.
What is Financial Aid?
FAFSA stands for...
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
Scholarships, Grants, and Loans
What are the types of financial aid?
The site where you would apply for State Aid.
What is the Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC)?
College Paths is located in this room.
What is Room 208?
The part of a financial aid package that students do not have to pay back.
What are Grants and Scholarships?
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 FAFSA® questions.
What is a Student Aid Report (SAR)?
These types of loans accumulate interest while you are still in school.
What are unsubsidized loans?
This helps eligible New York residents pay tuition at approved schools in New York State.
What is The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)?
Tutoring, SAT Prep, College Prep, Sophmore skills, College Counseling.
What are services offered by the College Paths office?
The part of the financial aid package that you will have to pay back six months after graduating college.
What are loans?
A measure of your family’s financial strength and is calculated according to a formula established by law. This tells you how much your family is supposed to contribute to your education.
What is the Expected Family Contribution (EFC)?
This type of loan does NOT accumulate interest while you are still in school.
What are subsidized loans?
Financial Aid for foster care youth.
What is the Education Training Voucher (ETV)?
The program that pays HSE, Foster Care, Homeless, Juvenile, and Criminal Justice-Involved Youth to complete college prep workshop and to complete three semesters of college.
What is the Bridge to College program?
Federal Government, State Government, Post Secondary Institutions, as well as Non Profit and Private Organizations
What are the entities that award financial aid?
These students are ineligible for Federal financial aid and should not fill out the FAFSA
What are International, DACA and Undocumented Students?
Provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses. The program encourages community service work and work related to the student's course of study.
What is the Federal Work-Study Program?
State Aid that turns into a no interest loan if you do not stay and work in New York State for the same amount of years that you used the this State Aid to pay for your tuition.
What is the Excelsior Scholarship?
A program only offered to 10th graders that builds on your educational skills leading up to the SATs.
What is the Sophomore Skills program?
Oversees federal student aid and awards more than $120 billion a year in grants, work-study funds, and low-interest loans to more than 13 million students.
What is the US Department of Education?
This disqualifies you from continuing to receive financial aid in college.
What is having a GPA that falls below a 2.0
You have to do this first in order to receive various types of financial aid from your post-secondary institution.
What is apply for FAFSA?
You have to apply for this first before you can apply for TAP.
What is the FAFSA?
Offered on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30 PM and Fridays at 11 AM in Room 208.
What is College Paths Orientation?