Does financial aid cover school supplies and books?
youll get something in the mail...if you havent already, telling you how much money youve been awarded for financial aid. it really depends on how much money your getting and how much your spending for tuition and your classes, room and board if your living in the dorms, etc...im going to community college (and not living on campus) and i got enough money so that i didnt have to spend ANYTHING out of my own pocket. but okay..lets say...after tuition money, and possibly room and board is taken out..you still have a lot of money left over....you can use as much of that money as you need for books. theres not a 'book spending limit' or anything. if you go to the bookstore...jsut get all the books you need...and then go up to the cashier..and tell her that your paying using your financial aid...then youll probably give her your student ID or something like that...and you wont have to pay any cash. It will just be taken out of your financial aid money. And ofcourse...if...lets say..you have 100 dollars left after tuition and all that..and your books come up to..lets say 300 dollars, then youd have to pay 200 dollars out of your own pocket. so it really just depends on how much money your getting, and spending on tuition..and if your having to pay for room and board, that takes out quite a bit..so it really depends. but if, after books and everything...you STILL have money left...lets say...after tuition, books, etc..you have 200 dollars left for example... about a month or two into school youll get a financial aid refund...where theyll give you a check for all the money that was awarded to you that you didnt spend. and THAT money, left over, is yours to keep. i hope i answered your question okay! good luck!
Does financial aid suspension follow you from one school to another?
Satisfactory Academic Progress standards vary from school to school and from program to program, so technically speaking, they only apply to the school and the program you were enrolled in. However, when you transfer credits to another school, the new school has to do a calculation to see if you are meeting the SAP standards there. Since the standards tend to be similar at most schools, if you weren't meeting SAP at one school, you probably won't meet it at the new one, either. However, there are exceptions. For example, the minimum GPA at most schools is 2.0, but some schools have a lower GPA, such as 1.5, for freshmen. So, your GPA was 1.8, you wouldn't meet the standard at the first school, but you would at the second. In some cases, if you are starting over in a completely new program, and not transferring any credits, the second school may not have to do a SAP calculation, so the suspension would not affect you there.
Does financial aid suspension carry to another school?
JR: Yes it does, and if you think about it, that makes sense. Most financial aid comes from the US Department of Education - if you're put on aid suspension, you haven't satisfied THEIR requirements for receiving it. In other words - and not to be insulting - the Department doesn't feel that they've spent their money wisely on your education. You'll have to demonstrate that you're capable of much better work before they'll give you another shot at it. It doesn't matter where you go to school - the Department of Education isn't going to give you any more money until your grades improve. That wouldn't be a very effective program if they didn't keep track of where you are and what they've given you in the past - so they do. The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) is the US Department of Education database that keeps track of all of the federal aid that every student has ever received. When you move to another school, you'll have to tell the Department to transfer your FAFSA information to the new school - otherwise you won't qualify for any aid. At that point, the Department will notify your new school that you are on financial aid suspension, and that you're not eligible for financial aid. I'm sorry for the disappointing news. The only way to restore your aid eligibility is to pay out-of-pocket, or with the assistance of PRIVATE (not federal) student loans until you meet the Satisfactory Academic Performance standards that are required to qualify for aid. You could sit out of school for 15 years and you wouldn't regain your aid - the ONLY way to do it is to pass your classes and get your cumulative GPA back over 2.0 Good luck!
Does financial aid suspension follow you from school to school?
Yes and no. The academic suspension will not directly follow you, but your low grades will. Your new school will request a transfer of your earned credits from your old school. As soon as that happens, your GPA at your new school will drop, and you will be placed on academic probation there. You have at most one semester before you are suspended again. However, you can re-take the courses you failed (most colleges allow you to re-take 2-4), and ask your college to replace the failing grades with the new ones. Talk to your counselor first, because not all schools allow you to do a grade forgiveness, and schools have different policies determining how many courses you are allowed to replace. You should try to do this over the summer when financial aid is limited anyway. As soon as you complete the classes and your grade forgiveness is approved, your GPA will take a dramatic jump, because your F's or D's will be gone. You should then qualify for aid in the fall again. (You can't take your classes at one community college and do the grade forgiveness at another.)
How do I get financial aid for graduate school?
First, you need to fill out a FAFSA form. This is to apply for federal financial aid. This form is online, I think at fafsa.gov. This will provide you access to what is generally called "Title IV" or "government" loans. Everyone can get this. You also may need to fill out the financial aid forms associated with the prospective schools. However, graduate school is much different from undergraduate. Graduate students may receive fellowships, which are basically free tuition plus a stipend combination usually with NO work requirement, OR assistantships, which typically waive tuition or reduce it dramatically and provide a wage in exchange for research or teaching assistantship duties. Having one of these makes one a "funded" student. Choosing to attend a graduate program as an "unfunded" student may not be wise. Generally, most of the better schools fund the graduate students that they feel have "potential." The unfunded students are often not given comparable opportunities for professional development or networking. Basically, they pay the bills, but receive the shorter end of the stick. Now, if your goal of going to graduate school is basically to tack on an M.A. in a discipline related to your undergraduate degree in order to be more competitive for basic jobs, then you will probably be unfunded and only want the degree and not necessarily professional development in the particular subject area. As far as applying in advance goes, most schools have their own calendars. You should research institutions and choose wisely. From the sound of things, you could use a mentor or counselor. Perhaps your undergraduate school has such services for alumni. I would check into that first. If not, perhaps you should make an appointment with the graduate school admissions office of your state's flagship school (University of STATE/State U, etc.) at their main campus and discuss your future goals and plans. Also, please be advised that professional school (law, medicine, dentistry, etc.) is not handled the same way as graduate school in terms of financial aid. Again, I would first figure out where I wanted to go, fill out the FAFSA form, fill out the schools' forms, and then go from there. Should you be planning professional school, the schools will steer you toward LawLoans, MedLoans. etc. as applicable. Good Luck.
Does financial aid usually cover the cost of school supplies?
Student financial aid is first assigned to cover tuition and, when applicable, room and board. Funds in excess of that amount are released to the student 2 to 3 weeks after the start of classes. These funds are to be spent on "educational related expenses." The SFA award is on the books for weeks or months before funds are applied to tuition. Most schools have a book voucher program through which a student can request a purchase order (based on excess funds) to take to the campus bookstore to purchase textbooks.
Do the top law schools offer good financial aid? How do law students graduate with debt lower than the costs?
As a general rule of thumb in the United States, the better the law school is, the worse the financial aid, especially if you’re talking about merit scholarships.Mid-ranked law schools offer lots of merit scholarships. Merit scholarships are viewed as being a way of bribing students who would otherwise attend higher-ranked law schools to attend a lower-ranked school.But if you’re a Yale, Columbia, or Harvard, you don’t need to bribe highly qualified students to attend your school. So they don’t. Law schools at the top of the food chain always offer need-based financial aid to qualified students, but merit scholarships are hard to find.
Do I get any financial aid for graduate school? What type of financial aid, Grants or scholarships?
It depends on what area you are going to graduate school in. In STEM areas, the standard is for a graduate student to have a support package either from the department or their faculty adviser or a combination. The support package should include full tuition and a stipend in return for research or teaching assistance. $20 K a year is about the average stipend. You can also apply for fellowships such as the NSF graduate fellowship. This usually does not increase your total compensation, but is prestigious and helps the department budget.
Why is first aid not taught in schools as compulsory?
Honestly, I’m not sure. I would love to see an implementation of ‘life skills’ classes in high school that teach basic first aid, home ec (basic cooking, darning clothes, etc), essential repair skills, etc. I think it might help some kids get a taste of something they want to do, at a minimum, and at best we’d have some people exiting the school system that are that much more self-reliant.