The Kishwaukee College Financial Aid Office will be hosting free workshops to assist local students with filing the 2017-2018 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on October 12 and 27 and November 15 from 6 – 7:30 pm in room A1345. Participating students and their parents should plan on spending approximately 30 minutes to complete the FAFSA. Participants should park in Lot A/South Lot and enter through Doors #16 or #17.
The FAFSA form is the first step in filing for financial aid to attend a college or university. The 2017-2018 FAFSA is for financial aid for the next academic year (typically beginning in with Fall 2017). Cyndi Stonesifer, Director of Financial Aid at Kishwaukee College, reminded area residents of a change in filing date for the FAFSA. “The FAFSA filing date has always been the January prior to a student enrolling in college, but that has changed this year,” she explained. “For anyone planning to attend Kishwaukee College or any other college or university in the 2017 – 2018 academic year, the filing date opens on October 1, 2016.”
Stonesifer also noted that the FAFSA is the basic building block of all financial aid packaging for college students across the U.S. Filing the FAFSA is the first step in determining what federal or state financial aid a student is eligible for, including Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (SEOG), Federal Direct Student Loans and the Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP Grants). Filing early may qualify a student for funding from a wider variety of financial aid sources.
The FAFSA Completion Nights allow students and their parents an opportunity to fill out the FAFSA form with assistance from financial aid professionals from Kishwaukee College and high school guidance counselors from Kishwaukee Educational Consortium (KEC). Any student who would like assistance is welcome to attend the FAFSA Completion Nights.
Students should bring their 2015 income verification, including their 2015 Federal Tax information or Federal 1040 tax forms (if filed) or W-2 forms. Students and parents should know their social security number(s) and driver’s license or alien registration numbers. Prior to attending the FAFSA Completion Night, students filing the FAFSA for the first time and parents should go to www.studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa/filling-out/fsaid to create their Federal Student Aid ID (FSA ID) which is required to submit the FAFSA electronically.
For more information on the upcoming FAFSA Completion Nights, contact the Kishwaukee College Financial Aid Office at 815-825- 9328, by e-mail at finaid@kishwaukeecollege.edu or visit www.kishwaukeecollege.edu.
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