How easy is it to get a grant for college besides the PELL grant?
April 29, 2009 by Tips for Finding Grants
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Can you answer voyavagarporay’s question about Grants?:
How easy is it to get a grant for college besides the PELL grant?
Have you claimed your Genesis site?
How easy is it to get a grant for college besides the PELL grant?
Have you claimed your Genesis site?
Grants Feedback: It depends on your “financial need.” You complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) to generate an EFC (Expected Family Contribution). Then the school uses the EFC in conjunction with the COA (Cost of Attendance) to determine what types of/how much financial aid a student may receive.
Say you have a COA of $20000 and your EFC is 2000. You would have $18000 “Gross Need.” If you are eligible for Pell that is $2360 (for an EFC of 2000). Now you have $15640 of “Unmet Need.”
Most schools do and should go from the ground up, so the neediest students (those with an EFC of 0) are awarded first and will get the most grant/institutional scholarship money (during the prime awarding time in the spring; most schools have a financial aid application deadline in the spring and will be put into some kind of “on-time” pool. If a student misses the deadline or applies really late in the year then it is hit or miss if s/he gets what s/he could have been eligible for had the application been submitted by the school’s deadline).
So it’s not necessarily about how “easy” it is rather than if you have the “need” for some of these grants.
You should talk to a financial aid officer at your school for more information. Good luck!
Grants Feedback: Yes there are many other ways to get grants. Pell grants are not the only kind. The government sometimes will give you grants and certain organizations will aswell. I am getting a large chunk of money for college using grants for school. I know a site that details some of the specifics and links to a guide that might be able to help you. It is in my sources.
Good Luck!