Government Financial Aid
This is an application for U.S. government financial aid that every senior should fill out if they are headed to college, are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and want any financial aid at all.
What is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (aka FAFSA)?
These are the 4 different types of financial aid that college-bound students can apply for. (This goes for 4-year colleges and community colleges.) (100 points per correct answer)
What are grants, scholarships, loans and work-study?
Every college-bound senior should check these forms of communication regularly so they don't miss important financial aid information. (This goes for 4-year colleges and community colleges.) (100 points per correct answer)
What are their personal email and college email (once accepted)?
These are places where South students can look for national, local, and South-only scholarships. (100 points per correct answer)
What are the scholarship page on the SEHS website, the e-news, Lori's Monday emails, the white board outside the College and Career Center, and announcements?
This is the type of financial aid you should use only as a last resort.
What are loans?
This is the name of a federal grant students automatically apply for when they fill out the FAFSA. It's based only on financial need and is worth up to $7,395 per year in 2024-25.
What is the Federal Pell Grant?
This is often the best place for finding the highest-value scholarships.
What is the college you plan to attend?
This is a free LCC class for high-school seniors that is all about providing them with the necessary tools they need to become successful students at Lane. This includes helping them find financial aid resources.
What is LCC's RTEC 101 class?
This one application allows Oregon students to apply for over 600 scholarships. It's due in early March every year.
What are the OSAC Scholarships?
These are things you can do while in high school to be more likely to win a scholarship. (100 points per answer)
What are:
Keep your grades up.
Develop good relationships with teachers (who might write a letter of recommendation for you).
Participate in activities that you're interested in (sports, music, activism, hobbies).
Get a job.
Take on leadership positions.
Do community service.
This is an application for Oregon state government financial aid that every senior should fill out if they are headed to college, are undocumented, and want any financial aid at all.
What is the Oregon State Application for Aid (aka ORSAA)?
This is an application for financial aid that some colleges require in addition to the FAFSA/ORSAA if a student wants aid from that school. (Usually, schools that require this are private, selective, and have a lot of money.)
What is the CSS Profile?
These are scholarships only for LCC students and LCC-bound seniors. You only fill out one application to apply for many different scholarships. There are scholarships for all types of students of all different abilities and all different GPAs. Rumor has it that they often have more money to give away than applicants apply for.
What are the LCC Foundation Scholarships?
This is what college students need to remember to do if they want to continue to get financial aid and scholarships at their college. (300 points per correct answer)
What is:
Fill out the FAFSA?
Apply for scholarships from their college?
Apply for private scholarships?
These are 2 topics you should discuss with your parents before you begin the college search process. (100 points per topic)
What are:
How much money they will be able to pay towards college?
How much money they want you to contribute towards college?
This is the name of a state government grant students apply for with the FAFSA or with the ORSAA. It's only for students who are headed to an Oregon Community College within 6 months of high school graduation and who have a 2.0 or higher high school GPA. It covers "most" of the cost of tuition.
What is the Oregon Promise Grant?
This is a grant for U of O bound students with at least a 3.4 GPA who were offered a Federal Pell Grant after filling out the FAFSA. It covers the cost of tuition plus fees and offers extra college advising.
What is the Pathway Oregon Grant?
If you're hoping to receive the Oregon Promise Grant, this is one thing you must list on your FAFSA or ORSAA application to be eligible for it.
What is the name(s) of the Oregon Community College(s) you might attend.
This is a place Oregon students can go to find local and national scholarships. You can filter the scholarships by keywords like "hockey," "Jewish," or "Hispanic."
What is the Oregon Goes to College website?
This is a plan Oregon families can invest money in to save it for college. It has tax benefits that can save you money if you spend the money on qualified education expenses.
What is a 529 college-savings plan or the Oregon College Savings Plan?
This is the name of a state government grant students apply for with the FAFSA or with the ORSAA. It's based only on financial need and is worth up to $7,524 per year in 2024-25.
What is the Oregon Opportunity Grant?
These 3 Oregon public schools have a grant similar to (but a bit different from) the Pathway Oregon Grant that covers the cost of tuition and fees. (500 points per correct answer)
What are OSU, Portland State University, and Western Oregon University?
This is what you should do if your family experiences an event such as loss of a job, significant medical expenses, or a divorce that reduces their ability to pay for your college after you've already submitted your FAFSA or ORSAA.
What is contact the financial aid office at the college you plan to attend? (Often, schools have online forms to fill out, and they prefer that you reach out this way.)
This is a scholarship available to Oregon and Siskiyou County, California seniors with significant financial need. It's worth up to $40,000 per year and is renewable.
What is the Ford Family Foundation's Ford Scholars Program?
This is a type of federal direct loan on which the government pays the interest while the student is still in school and for a six-month grace period afterward.
What is a subsidized loan?