Showing posts with label Financial Aid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Financial Aid. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Free Budgeting Seminar

Free Budgeting Seminar offered by Community Action.

Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 6PM
Location: Clarion Library

Free dinner and childcare starting at 5:30. You MUST register by February 16, 2010.
Call Community Action at 226-4785 or toll free at 1-800-997-7661 ext. 205.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

FAFSA4caster

http://www.fafsa4caster.ed.gov

FAFSA4caster will help you get an early start on the financial aid process by:

  • Providing you with an early estimate of your eligibility for federal student aid.
  • Giving you an experience similar to FAFSA on the Web
  • Allowing you to transfer all of your FAFSA4caster data to FAFSA on the Web once you are ready to apply for aid.
  • Providing you the option to apply for your Federal Student Aid PIN.
  • Increasing your knowledge of the financial aid process, and providing information about other sources of aid.
So, not a senior or not ready to apply, but need an idea of what your aid will look like? Try this site!

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

FAFSA Completion Day - Attention Seniors

Assistance in completing the FAFSA will be offered on Saturday, February 7, 2009, from 9-noon. There will be trained professionals at two locations: Cranberry High School, Venango COunty and Clarion Free Library Community Room, Clarion County.

For more information or to register, contact the ETS office at 1-888-533-6487. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

-Rhonda

Thursday, April 10, 2008

A Few FAFSA Pointers from My Friends in FA

When filing on-line:

-The save button appears sporadically, throughout. When it is there, use it. Progressing to the next page, does not automatically save your application.

-Do not use the back button.

Again, DO NOT PAY FOR THIS SERVICE! Filing your FAFSA is free. Make sure you are on the .gov site!

Get your FAFSA filed today! Remember May 1 is the PA deadline.
-Rhonda

Friday, February 01, 2008

FAFSA Means FREE

Please remember:

The URL for the official FAFSA site is www.fafsa.ed.gov . There are many for-profit FAFSA filing web sites - they will charge you! These sites are not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education. Students should file at www.fafsa.ed.gov.

FAFSAs should be filed online. If you have specific circumstances prohibiting this and are an ETS participant, please contact me ASAP as I have a few paper forms for your use.

PHEAA will be holding free workshops throughout the state on Saturday, February 9. One will be held from 10-1 at Brother Bean Coffee Shop, Rte 257, Cranberry (Venango County). Another will be held from 10-1 at Clarion Free Library (Community Room), Main Street, Clarion.

Monday, February 19, 2007

File your FAFSA

Attention seniors or anyone planning to enroll in postsecondary education in Fall 2007:

It is time to file your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid.) Applicants are encouraged to file online, but there are still paper versions available. Check your guidance office, local library, or if you are an ETS participant - call our office.

Meanwhile, if you do decide to file online, make sure you use the government website at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/. Do not use any of the look-a-like sites that charge a fee. Filing the FAFSA is free. Here are some of the sites not to use (The links are not active - just check out the names.) : http://www.fafsa.com/, http://www.fafsa.us/, http://www.fafsaonline.com/, http://www.fasfa.com/. They are designed to confuse. I am sure there are even more out there - so feel free to share them in the comments.

Remember- the FAFSA is filed FREE and it is a .gov website!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

UPromise SAVINGS!!

Have you checked this out? UPromise provides college savings for YOU, based on the purchases you make. The money may then be used towards your education. I have been using this service for a few years now, and it is quick to register, easy to use and totally legitimate. Visit and register at www.upromise.org.

Here's what UPromise has to say on its site-
"We believe that every child should have the chance to go to college. Upromise was established to give families an easy way to save - every day - and encourage them to start early by investing their own money for college on a regular basis."

Sound too good to be true? It's not! So sign up now!