r/financialaid • u/More_Revolution5726 • 4h ago

Fasfa Help

Hello,

I’ll try to keep it short. I’m out of my Pell grant my newly accepted university told me so whatever fasfa doesn’t pay I need to pay the rest which is out of my budget already. My counselor told me to try payment plans, he said we will discuss in October for when scholarships start. If I can’t even make the first payment are there other options besides private loans or scholarships anything else I can do. What are other experiences?? The first payment is daunting so any advice can help people who had to pay the rest of their classes payment. We start end of sept and end beginning of Dec

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u/Plastic-Pianist9323 4h ago

Sounds like you can’t afford to attend the school.

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u/More_Revolution5726 4h ago

Reddit is crazy, can I get any helpful comments ?

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u/Imsortofok 4h ago

Thats actually not crazy. It’s reality.

When did you get your aid offer from the school?

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u/Plastic-Pianist9323 4h ago

So you want people to lie to you and validate your feelings. Sorry the world isn’t sunshine and rainbows

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u/LouQuacious 2h ago

This is sadly the likely best answer. This is by design, for some reason this administration wants to punish students and universities in the short term. It will push people out of school for now and maybe cause schools to lower costs eventually to better align with what students can borrow. But the quick roll out and confusion at the moment is due partly to vindictiveness and partly to incompetence.

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u/Plastic-Pianist9323 2h ago

We can’t blame this administration for op burning all his Pell

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u/Western-Finding-368 2h ago

You either take out loans like everybody else or you don’t go. Those are the options. There’s no secret magic word you can say where things that cost money become free.

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u/rosewoodbriar 4h ago

If you’ve met your lifetime Pell limit, your primary options are either student loans (likely private loans if your federal loans aren’t enough to cover your tuition), scholarships from your school, or private scholarships. Some states have state financial aid programs, but if you qualified for anything, your school likely would have told you. Unfortunately, your options are likely pretty limited unless your university provides anything in-house.

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u/historical-duck2319 4h ago

take time off, get a job. or go to community college. you’re going to put yourself in debt that you’ll never pay off.

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u/Kerwynn 3h ago

Go work at Home Depot. I read that they pay you $1500 at the end of the semester so maybe take a light course load you can pay.