Financial Aid

Student financial aid is funds awarded to a student to help meet post-secondary educational expenses. These funds are awarded on the basis of financial need and include scholarships, grants, loans, and employment. With so much information about student financial aid available today, it is often challenging to know where to start. The Clara Abbott Foundation can help!

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This article provides a few terms you're bound to come across when researching financial aid.
Students are occasionally unable to attend their first-choice college because the school doesn't offer enough student aid. If this happens to your student, here are few things that you and your student can do that might help.
The makeup of your total financial package may change from year to year. This article offers some questions you should ask your school’s financial aid office to help you understand what to expect.

For a comprehensive collection of information about student financial aid on the web, check out FinAid.

Other Financial Aid Resources
Institute of Financial Consumer Education
Federal Consolidation of Student Loans

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