Scholarships
Scholarships are a financial resource for students seeking financial aid, and students should report outside (non SMU) scholarships to this office.
What is the Financial Aid Office?
The abbreviation for Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
What is FAFSA?
The date you can submit the FAFSA.
What is October 1st?
FAFSA
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid??
A popular board game instructs "Do not pass go. Do not collect.." this amount of money.
What is $200?
If your brother, sister, mother, father or grandpa graduated from SMU, you likely received this scholarship.
What is the Legacy Award?
What are 3 types of financial aid.
What is grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study?
Saint Martin's Priority Filing date for your FAFSA submission
What is January 1?
FAFSA
What is Free Application for Federal Student Aid?
Name of a federal grant.
What is Pell
or
What is Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant
(SEOG)
This event was held at SMU on April 30, and over 200 potential freshmen students and their families attended.
What is Benedictine Scholars Day?
The FAFSA needs to be completed this often.
What is every year?
The last day of the Spring 2019 term on SMU's Lacey Campus.
What is May 11?
DRT
What is Data Retrieval Tool?
(The IRS data retrieval tool built into your FAFSA)
This "Men in Black" star turned down a scholarship offer at MIT to pursue a rap career.
Who is Will Smith?
This Scholarship is awarded to a student when an Alumni, parent, or friend of SMU nominates him/her based on their "ability to thrive in and contribute to the Saints Community".
What is the Alumni and Friends Scholarship?
You use this to sign your financial aid application online.
What is the FSA AID?
This event is Saint Martin's signature student scholarship fundraising event.
What is The Gala?
COA
What is Cost of Attendance?
The amount of months that pass before you must repay your federal loans
What is 6 months?
This type of internal scholarship is awarded to freshmen students, and is based on a combination of high school GPA, class rank, SAT or ACT Scores, and community service and leadership.
This scholarship is renewable for up to four years, and includes Chancellor's, President's, Dean's, etc.
What are Merit Scholarships?
This term is used when the Financial Aid Office requires documentation to review the information on your FAFSA.
What is verification?
the numbered day in each term that SMU designates the last day to add/drop classes without designation?
What is the 10th day?
EFC
What is Expected Family Contribution?
This federal grant was named after a former US Senator. and originally implemented by President Lyndon B. Johnson
What is the Pell Grant?
(named after Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island)