Re: Financial aid for college age kids. Tracie

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Hey Tracie- I am just going to but in here., but saw your post and help from

so thought I would add to this as wish I had, had a better advance and

heads up. My son who is in college 3 yrs now, his last yr. of H.S we went to

the parent/student night for college bound kids, 2 1/2 hrs., got alot of

speakers from various fields, and at end of night did not get the help I needed

except to apply for the FASE, which has told you. But I wanted to give you

a heads up on this application is very invloved, it got kicked back to me and

also, my sis-in-law, who's son was applying same time. It was to do with the

income on both of our issues, we both are remarried, very confusing on who's

income they wanted, turned out they wanted my and my husband not his father's

income which didn't make sense to me. And the other thing is DON " T lose the pin

# they will give you, as it carry's through, the whole college time. My son now

and has lived on his own, he is very bright

and tried the application himself as on his own he is 23, and it came back

several times, he can not figure out why, and needs college counselor help but

has not gotten in there yet as his classes leave him no time the way his campus

is set up travel's by car to different campus sites! I just suggest starting

the application the minute he/she is out of school. You can have a deadline

time also when applying for each simester. Hope this helps. Take Care,

Sharon

tracierae143 <tracierae143@...> wrote:

Thank you . I will check out the website and call the guidance

office. It is a start. I really appreciate it. Being disabled,

the less running around I do the better.

Hugs,

Tracie

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> The guidence department at her school should be able to answer all

your questions. You can also visit the website FAFSA.com to get

alot of questions answered, they are the federal student loan

service. mary

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I have completed 2 FAFSAs for my daughter and 2 for myself so far, and I

have never had any problem at all. Just have your last income tax papers

(1040 forms) with you when you fill it out online and you should have all

the information you need. Just follow the questions as they come up on the

screen. Once it is filled out, they tell you right away how much you need to

contribute, or if you don't need to contribute to the tuition. Then they

send the info to all the schools you list on it, and the schools will then

contact you about financial aid at that college.

There are many scholarships online. Just do a google search for education

scholarships. Once you get on a couple of scholarship lists, you will get

stuff in your email all the time.

Re: [ ] Re: Financial aid for college age kids. Tracie

Hey Tracie- I am just going to but in here., but saw your post and help

from so thought I would add to this as wish I had, had a better advance

and heads up. My son who is in college 3 yrs now, his last yr. of H.S we

went to the parent/student night for college bound kids, 2 1/2 hrs., got

alot of speakers from various fields, and at end of night did not get the

help I needed except to apply for the FASE, which has told you. But I

wanted to give you a heads up on this application is very invloved, it got

kicked back to me and also, my sis-in-law, who's son was applying same time.

It was to do with the income on both of our issues, we both are remarried,

very confusing on who's income they wanted, turned out they wanted my and my

husband not his father's income which didn't make sense to me. And the

other thing is DON " T lose the pin # they will give you, as it carry's

through, the whole college time. My son now and has lived on his own, he is

very bright

and tried the application himself as on his own he is 23, and it came back

several times, he can not figure out why, and needs college counselor help

but has not gotten in there yet as his classes leave him no time the way his

campus is set up travel's by car to different campus sites! I just suggest

starting the application the minute he/she is out of school. You can have a

deadline time also when applying for each simester. Hope this helps. Take

Care,

Sharon

tracierae143 <tracierae143@...> wrote:

Thank you . I will check out the website and call the guidance

office. It is a start. I really appreciate it. Being disabled,

the less running around I do the better.

Hugs,

Tracie

--- In , " McNally " <McNacks@...>

wrote:

>

> The guidence department at her school should be able to answer all

your questions. You can also visit the website FAFSA.com to get

alot of questions answered, they are the federal student loan

service. mary

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[Guest guest]

Hi Tracie,

I have completed the FASFAs for the past few years for hubby who and for my

oldest daughter. I do mine as soon as I finish my taxes which is usually

around mid february. The earlier the better to get the best financial aid as

well as to be considered for many inhouse (college specific) scholorships.

So far we have had good luck. My oldest is in private christian university

here in Texas and her sister will be attending possibly the same or the

sister baptist university depending on the financial aid package she is

offered.

We started our scholorship applications back in August...and we have

continued as more scholorship info has become available. Both girls and hubby

attend private schools which by Texas standard are considered really expensive.

You daughters school should be holding sessions on financial aid,

applications and college planning all throughout the junior and senior year of

school.

We even have a counselor that is devoted to the needs of graduating

students.

We have been VERY lucky and have gotten excellent financial aid packages

with very little if anything out of pocket once you add in the scholorships.

Key thing here is good grades, be able to write excellent scholorship papers

and stay informed.

Good luck....LOL...next year we will ALL be in college!!

Toni

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