FAFSA and Grad School 45J

thumper1
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 02:17:57 +0000

I’m not sure it matters.

Really…graduate school financial aid is not like undergraduate financial aid. It is largely merit aid based on the strength of the student application and the school’s desire to have the student as a member of the cohort. Aid is comprised of grants, assistantships, fellowships, scholarships, sometimes work study…and loans.

There is really precious little need based aid for grad school some schools do give small need based grants. But not all do. There aren’t any subsidized federally funded loans for grad school either.

What are you hoping your grad school student will get for need based financial aid? Really…there isn’t a lot of that.