<p>Has anyone ever attained the 3000 work-study award? It seems impossible to do during the school year.</p>
<p>It can include the summer. Also some work study positions pay more than others. At $10 per hour, that comes to 300 hours, not an impossibility.</p>
<p>How would it work if I am an out of state student? I just have to find jobs that offer work study?</p>
<p>That's only 10 hrs/week assuming semester calendar. Not too hard.</p>
<p>Now finding work study jobs that fit your class schedule and getting them is another matter. Track down your college's student employment office. That is if they have one - often it's the student's responsibility to find the job. Your work study award merely makes you a preferred candidate for on-campus positions along with the thousands of others that received the award.</p>
<p>Work study is up to you. They award what they are willing to pay you for the year. You have to find the job, hours, schedule, time, location, transportation, etc. I suggest you get on the ball in finding out what your school has because it is first come, first serve. There are schools that have limited positions, strange hours, and only minimum wage. There are schools that have better. I remember I had to work 3 work study jobs one semester to get my money since the better jobs were very limited in hours (reading to a blind professor/doing work for him was lucrative but just a few hours a week). The jobs that had the most flexibility and hours were the lowest paid. Though that was many years ago, I'll bet things have not changed much in this regard. Also, working over the summer may not make sense if you live too far to commute since you would then have to pay for living costs. If you can find a job at the uni during the summer, and a cheap sublet, the work study can pay off. I remember friends who were part workstudy/part private pay for some research positions over the summer. Ferryboat describes workstudy well.</p>
<p>You find campus jobs via work study, my D has never made more than $2500; you can get a portion of your loans changed to work study by request, but you still need to work the hours. DD has worked over summer, too, and no W2 has exceed 2500, so it depends on the job and your time as to whether you can actually make it happen</p>
<p>my son got 3950 in WS for this upcoming year. He's working on campus all summer. We anticipate him being able to earn the full amount. I'm grateful for every penny of that because he's going to be buying his textbooks with that money. And because it won't affect the fafsa next year</p>
<p>I got a 4500 Work Study award for fall/spring of next year. I was unaware it was possible to earn that money in the summer as well. I suppose you need to take a full credit load in the summer to even be able to earn that amount. Shucks.</p>
<p>I don't think so. Unless the rules have changed. You can just work during the summer and not take classes. The problem is that if your parents do not live near by, you have to cover living expenses which may not make the job worth while when you can live with parents for much, much less and find work in that area. S2 who is at his school for the summer since he has a year's lease there would be in a good situation to take advantage of work study had he gotten any. As it is, he is making some good money working at the university. Far better than what he would get hear, and without the travel costs. Just has to feed himself.</p>
<p>DD got a $3000 work study award. Her job pays $12 per hour. We think she will be able to earn most of that $3000.</p>
<p>my son is on campus (and I'm paying for summer housing), but he isn't taking any classes. He is still able to earn WS money
He is also working a non-WS job. I have told him many many times that as soon as he goes over 4K of non WS earnings for the year 2008, he needs to start giving me half of it so I can put it away to pay the EFC for next year.</p>