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Local Scholarship Deadline-Feb 2nd-additional materials (SAR page 1 part 1 and
financial aid award letters)-due by 4/1/15
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Use Naviance to look for scholarships-look at list and National search
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Other Scholarship resources: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/grantsscholarships
http://www.fastweb.com/
https://www.scholarships.com/
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Scholarship Scams-Don’t apply to scholarships that require a fee to apply. Also be
careful of sponsors that say that you have “won” but require you to pay a “redemption
fee” before you receive the funds
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You still need to apply for financial aid at all your colleges:
○ CSS/Profile-used by some private colleges: https://student.collegeboard.org/cssfinancial-aid-profile
○ As of January 1st, all Colleges require FAFSA: https://fafsa.ed.gov/ . You can
apply for a pin number now
○ Some colleges may have additional forms-check each Financial aid website
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Financial Aid Tools
○ Every college has a netprice calculator-it will estimate what you might receive for
financial aid, College Board also provides this service for many colleges:
http://studentnpc.collegeboard.org/
○ To get an estimate for your need what you might qualify for federal aid, check out
the FAFSA forecaster: https://fafsa.ed.gov/FAFSA/app/f4cForm?execution=e4s1
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Upcoming Events, FAFSA Night,
○ scholarships/paying for college January 12th
○ FAFSA night February 4th
○ After the Acceptance Seminar-MEFA
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Great resources about paying for college:
○ https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/tools-calculators
○ http://www.mefa.org/-excellent resources, webinars, and calculators to pay for
college
○ https://masscis.intocareers.org/materials/portal/home.html-click Massachusetts
residents, use town and zip code to sign in, go under assessements, reality
check, and start realilty check-great resources to look at what you bills after
college