Financial Aid Jeopardy

Grants and Scholarships

100

The maximum amount of money given for a pell grant.

 2018–19 award year (July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019) will be $6,095.

200

Name ONE California grant or scholarship that is available to students who apply for FAFSA and meet additional requirements?

What is the 

Cal Grants

Middle Class Scholarship

Chafee Grant, 

California College Promise Grants 

300

When applying for the CAL GRANT A, B or C you must file for FASFA and submit what document to the California Student Aid Commission?

What is a certified Grade Point Average (GPA)?

400

TWO requirements for the CAL GRANT A, B or C.

• submit the FAFSA or CADAA application and your verified Cal Grant GPA by the deadline
• be a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen or meet AB540 eligibility criteria
• be a California resident for 1 year
• attend a qualifying California college
• not have a bachelor’s or professional degree
• have financial need at the college of your choice
• have family income and assets below the minimum levels
• be enrolled or plan to enroll in a program leading to an undergraduate degree or certificate
• be enrolled or plan to enroll at least half time
• have registered with the U.S. Selective Service, if required to do so
• not owe a refund on any state or federal grant or be in default on a student loan
• not be incarcerated
• maintain the Satisfactory Academic Progress standards as established by the school. Recipients who do not meet the standards are ineligible for Cal Grant payment and will not use eligibility during the terms they are ineligible for payment.

500

If you are or were in foster care between the ages of 16 and 18 as a dependent or ward of the court and have financial need, you may qualify for up to $5,000 a year for career and technical training or college. You don’t have to pay this money back. You may also be able to use your grant to help pay for child care, transportation and rent while you’re in school. What is the name of this Grant?

What is a Chafee Grant. (Available any eligible California college or university or career or technical school, as well as schools in other states.)

FAFSA

100

The abbreviation for Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

What is FAFSA?

200

The four types of financial aid.

What is grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study?

300

The FAFSA needs to be completed this often.

What is every year?

OCTOBER 1st - MARCH 2nd

400

You use this to sign your financial aid application online.

What is the PIN?

500

This worksheet is used when colleges require more information about your income.

What is the verification worksheet?

California Dream ACT

100

California’s “non-resident tuition exemption,” often referred to as AB 540 is a state law that exempts certain students from paying non-resident tuition at California public colleges. (Five (5) state laws make up the requirements to qualify for a non-resident tuition exemption.) What is the length of stay required to be eligible?

What is: Attendance for 3+ years (or the equivalent) at any of the following schools in California

  OR

What is : 3+ years of earned High School credits with a total of 3+ years of total attendance at any of the following schools in California

200

TRUE OR FALSE: 

Eligible students who complete and successfully submit the California Dream Act Application are eligible for a wide range of aid, including Cal Grants, Middle Class Scholarship, Chafee Grant, Institutional Aid, the California College Promise Grants (formally the Board of Governors fee waiver), Dreamer loans at UCs and CSUs as well as other aid and scholarships

TRUE

300

How often must students UPDATE their Dream Act Application?

what is every year

400

TURE OR FALSE DACA is required to complete CA Dream Act application

FALSE: There is uncertainty around the DACA program and its impact on financial aid. Students should understand that regardless of what happens with DACA, financial aid for undocumented students will still be available in California. It is important to know the following:

•DACA is not required to qualify for a non-resident tuition exemption

•DACA is not required to complete CA Dream Act application

•DACA will not impact the ability for students to continue receiving financial aid

500

Name TWO of the seven top reasons students don't get awarded Financial Aid through the Dream Act?

•Application not submitted on time or not fully completed before March 2nd deadline

•Missing parent signature

•Missing, incomplete or inaccurate income and/or asset information

•Selective Service not completed or school not able to verify (male students 18-25)

•Verification process not completed in time to start school

•Student completes FAFSA erroneously 

•Confusion at college level (financial aid vs. admissions) about Dream Act eligibility

Acronyms

100

SFSU

What is San Francisco State University?

200

HBCU

What is Historically Black College or university?

300

FAFSA

What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?

400

COA

What is Cost of Attendance?

500

EFC

What is Expected Family Contribution?

Miscellaneous

100

Individuals with bachelor’s degrees earn an average of ___ more than people with only a high school diploma, which adds up to more than $800,000 over a lifetime.

What is 60%?

200

Michelle Obama when to this college?

What is Princeton?

300

TRUE OR FALSE: The SAT was developed by Carl Brigham who, in the early twentieth century, felt that American education was declining due to racial mixing. The SAT was administered for the first time to high school students in ____.

TRUE

What is 1925

400

The amount of months that pass before you must repay your loans

What is 6 or 9 months?

500

Name of a federal grant.

What is Pell Grant?