Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
Melissa Korn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's a high stakes process, right?
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If you mess up a form and you somehow aren't eligible for a particular scholarship, that can have tens of thousands of dollars in costs associated with it.
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So whether or not a family thinks that they will qualify for financial aid, they should fill out the FAFSA.
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That's the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
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That opens the spigot to Pell Grants, which are based on financial need.
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It opens the gate to loans that students can take out and that parents of undergraduates can take out.
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It also kind of starts the process of the family being considered for institutional aid, so scholarships and grants that a school might give out based on need or merit.
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It's always worth applying for aid.
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The worst that happens is that it's determined that, no, you don't qualify for need-based aid, but you still can take out loans, even if a school and the federal government determine you don't have a financial need by their calculation.
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And if loans are going to be a part of the way you pay for college, you need to fill out the FAFSA.
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Yeah, so it's pretty simple.
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The Department of Education has a ton of details online, very extensive website that goes through all the different types of aid that are available and how to apply, you know, what information you should have on hand when you're about to start the application process.
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how to make it easier to kind of navigate, you know, have all here at once, have all your files ready to go rather than stopping in and out 10 different times, talks through what information a student needs to provide, a parent needs to provide.
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So your first stop should be school's financial aid website and the Department of Education's student aid website.
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There can be.
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So if a student is applying to one of a few hundred mostly private colleges, they might be asked to also fill out what's called the CSS profile, which requires even more disclosure than the FAFSA.
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As one mother told me, you know, it feels like they're asking you to get naked.
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Just the amount of detail that they want.
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You are exposed.
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In her case, they were asking for the make and model of the cars she and her husband drove.
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