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What are the costs of college?
• Tuition—sitting in the classroom and getting credit.
• Room & Board—your dorm and your food• Books—for reading• Travel—getting back and forth• Expenses—pizza $ and toothpaste
How do schools help you
• Grants—FREE Money!!! You don’t have to pay back. Based on need.
• Loans—Money you have to pay back with interest.– BUT: The loans we will let you take out for college
(Called Perkins or Stafford Loans) have low interest rates
• Work Study—You work on campus
Scholarships
• FREE money!! Money for something you do—like getting good grades, playing basketball, or playing the tuba.
• Money for something you are—first-generation, left-handed, or the child of a union member
HEOP
• H(igher) E(ducation) O(pportunity) P(rogram).• You get academic support as well as financial
support.• Summer program before school starts.