What is financial aid and where can I find some basic information to get started?
During your campus visit, financial aid staff will be available to answer specific questions about financial aid. Briefly, financial aid is money loaned or given to you to help you pay for college expenses, including: tuition, books, housing and meals. If you get a loan, you don’t have to pay it back until after you graduate from college, leave college, or drop below half-time enrollment . The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is the application used to determine a student’s eligibility for federally subsidized loans, grants and work-study funds. Although some colleges still accept paper FAFSAs, processing is quicker when FAFSA is filed on the Web athttp://www.fafsa.ed.gov. General information on awards, scholarships, grants, from the state of Kansas can be found here.
