Acronyms
Pell
Types of Aid
SAP
Loans
100

SAR

What is Student Aid Report?

100

The general guidelines given to schools are provided by this entity

What is the Department of Education?

100

Grants, scholarships, loans, and work-study

What are the four different types of Financial Aid?

100

The total number of points per credit hours earned

What is a Grade Point Average (GPA)?

100

True or False: Student loans are free money and don't have to be repaid.

False

200

SAP

What is Satisfactory Academic Progress?

200

The maximum amount of Pell that a student can receive for the 2021-2022 academic year

What is $6,496?

200

Monetary awards given to students in recognition of academic achievement or financial need

What are scholarships?

200

Student must meet or exceed a cumulative GPA of 2.0 and a cumulative completion rate of 67%

What is Satisfactory Academic Progress?

200

This type of financial aid must be paid back 6 months after graduation or if you withdrawal from school or take less than 6 credits

What is Federal Direct Student loans?

300

FFELP

What is Federal Family Educational Loan Program?

300

The typical minimum GPA to maintain Federal Satisfactory Progress

What is 2.0?

300

Money awarded to student than can be earned by working on campus

What is work-study?

300

A student failing to meet with the minimum GPA or completion rate the first time.

What is a warning?

300

Non-federal education loans that are borrowed by the parent of an undergraduate student

What is Parent Plus Loan (PPL)?