AUGUST NEWS:
Work-Study timesheets are due in the Business Office by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22, 2008. Paychecks will be available for pickup in the Business Office on Friday, August 29, 2008.
2008-2009 INFORMATION:
Registration for fall classes is now in progress. Be prepared to pay the $35 nonrefundable registration fee. Your financial aid will be deferred to the business office after your financial aid file has been verified and your award notification has been run. You will receive a financial aid notification of your awards in the mail.
Please be advised that your Student Financial Aid File must be complete before August 1 to ensure that you are awarded financial aid in time for you to charge your books against your financial aid. Files that are completed after August 1 will be awarded in the order in which they become complete. This includes requests for funds in the Stafford Loan Program.
If your financial aid and/or your loan request are not complete before August 1, you may be obligated to pay for your books yourself.
After the August 1 date, loan requests will be processed in the order they are received by the Student Financial Aid Office. Please remember that you must have a completed and verified financial aid file before your loan request form will be reviewed by the Student Loan Counselors.
Important Financial Aid Change for the 2008-2009 Academic Year
NEW FOR 2008-2009: Paper FAFSAs will no longer be distributed to schools. Students are encouraged to complete the FAFSA on the Web Worksheet (FOTW) to assist them in completing the on-line application (www.fafsa.ed.gov). The worksheet is available in the Student Financial Aid Office or in the high school guidance counselors’ offices.
Students who want to complete the paper FAFSA may call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4-FED-AID to request the paper application or download a PDF paper FAFSA at www.FederalStudentAid.ed.gov. This PDF version can be completed on the computer and printed, or printed and completed by hand, and then mailed to the address provided.
Students will need their U.S. Department of Education Personal Identification Number (PIN) to complete the FAFSA on the Web. The PIN serves as the student signature for electronic documents. To apply for a PIN, students (and parents if the student is dependent for financial aid purposes) should go to the following website: www.pin.ed.gov.
If a student or parent has lost or forgotten the PIN, a duplicate PIN can be requested at www.pin.ed.gov by selecting the option “Request a Duplicate PIN.”
Students can begin applying for federal financial aid for the 2008-2009 award year starting January 1, 2008. To ensure consideration for all financial aid programs, the FAFSA should have been completed by February 15, 2008.
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Please be sure to complete your 2008-2009 ACM Financial Aid Application available only from our Website. (www.allegany.edu/finaid) The ACM (Allegany College of Maryland) Financial Aid Application is different than the FAFSA and must be completed by all ACM financial aid applicants.
ACM Scholarship booklets are now available for the 2008-2009 academic year. Be sure to pick one up in the Foundation Office! The scholarship booklet and the application can also be viewed, downloaded, and printed from the ACM website www.allegany.edu/scholarship/
OUTSIDE SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION:
For additional information on scholarships for A.D.D., please see the following website: http://add.about.com/cs/adhdincollege/a/scholarships.htm
For available scholarship sweepstakes, please visit the following websites:
KeyBank – www.Key.com/Take5
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – www.gmsp.org and click on Nomination Materials, Nominee, Nominee Form and Register Nominee
Phi Theta Kappa has partnered with two national organizations that provide significant scholarship support to outstanding community college students and to those transferring to four-year institutions. The organizations are:
Hispanic Scholarship Fund at www.hsf.net or cctransfer@hsf.net
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation at www.jackkentcookefoundation.org or jkc-u@act.org
AES (American Education Services) provides a free scholarship search database. Visit the website at www.educationplanner.com
The Helping Hand Foundation is announcing the opening of the application in-take process for the 2008-2009 Book Scholarship Program. Awards vary from $100 to $1000. Completed application packets must be postmarked by July 15, 2008 for fall and December 15, 2008 for spring. Interested applicants should download the application online or request that an application be faxed to them at www.helpinghandsbookscholarship.com .
Education Matters $5K Scholarship
One $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to the student who best responds (in 250 words or less) to the following online topic: “What would you say to someone who thinks education doesn’t matter, or that college is a waste of time?” To be eligible to apply, students must be residents of the United States, be 13 years of age or older, and must have completed a scholarship search profile online at www.scholarshipexperts.com. The deadline for students to apply online is October 31, 2008. Students can apply now at http://scholarshipexperts.com/apply.htx.
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