FAFSA
This is who needs to complete a FAFSA.
Who is everyone?
Money awarded to students based on academic or other achievements.
What are scholarships?
Who provides the funding for the MAP Grant?
Who is the State of Illinois?
This is the GPA requirement to remain in good standing with financial aid.
What is a 2.0?
Pell Grants can be used for ANY educational expense. Name 3 educational expenses a college student might have.
What is tuition, fees, books, supplies, transportation, room and board, living expenses?
This is the date the FAFSA becomes available each year.
What is October 1st?
The number of applications you must fill out to be eligible for the Rend Lake College Foundation Scholarships.
What is one?
This is the payment deadline for the Summer semester.
What is May 15th?
Students have to maintain the required GPA AND completion ratio to remain eligible for financial aid. This is the percentage needed for the completion ratio.
What is 67%
$6,195
What is the maximum Pell Grant amount for 19-20 award year?
This is the largest federal grant that you are applying for when you complete the FAFSA.
What is the Federal Pell Grant?
The date the RLC Foundation Scholarship application must be submitted.
What is February 28?
The cost of one credit hour of tuition at RLC.
What is $110?
This is what happens if you do not meet SAP standards for one semester.
What is financial aid warning?
1 in 3 students are required to complete this before they can receive their Pell grant.
What is verification?
FAFSA is an acronym that stands for this.
What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
This is the scholarship available to students who score a 26 or higher on the ACT or 1240 or higher on the SAT at RLC.
What is the High Achiever Award?
There are 4 main sources or types of financial aid. Name 2.
What is grants, loans, scholarships, and work-study?
This is what happens if you do not meet SAP standards for 2 semesters.
What is financial aid suspension? You can no longer receive financial aid at RLC until you bring up you GPA and completion ratio to the required percentages.
This is how refunds are disbursed to students.
What is a BankMobile account? Students can choose to have the money put on a BankMobile Vibe card or direct deposited.
The name of the username and password that serves as a student and parent's identifier to allow access to the FAFSA and other government websites.
What is the FSA ID?
This is the scholarship that gives you free tuition and books for 2 years if you are the top ranking member of your graduation class that attends RLC.
What is the Presidential Award?
Federal loans are "guaranteed". What does this mean?
The federal government does not take your income or credit history into consideration when determining your eligibility for these loans. RLC and many other local community college no longer participate.
This is what you can do to potentially receive financial aid while you are on financial aid suspension.
What is an appeal?
This is the minimum number of credit hours you must be enrolled in to receive the Pell Grant.
What is 3 hours?