ALL opportunities for federal aid?

Paying for College
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<p>I have a meeting with a financial aid counselor (from Ithaca College) tomorrow to see if I can try to get more aid for next year's tuition. I want to go into the meeting knowing as much about ALL the opportunities for federal funding that are available to students and are dependent on financial need, since I have already been awarded the maximum amount from school grants. I know about the pell grant and SEOG grant, but was wondering if there are more programs/grants such as these that are federally funded that I could appeal for. </p>

<p>Also, does a university have a limited pool from which to award federal funding? Is it possible to increase the amount of pell/SEOG grant calculated, even if a situation has not changed? Anything that might help me swing a little more funding (by tomorrow morning) would be very greatly appreciated. Thank you!</p>

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<p>Pell has no wiggle room - it is based on a federally issued table - FAFSA EFC 0 = Pell $4310. EFC 4001- 4110 = Pell$400. EFC over 4110 = $0 (for full time students ) You cannot be awarded more than you are eligible for.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/2007paysch.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/2007paysch.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>FSEOG max seems to vary from school to school and the funds are limited. The max at our State school is $1000 but at others it is higher. I think it may be related to COA.</p>

<p>For information on federal loans checkout finaid - they have good info.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.finaid.com/loans/studentloan.phtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.finaid.com/loans/studentloan.phtml&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.finaid.org/loans/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.finaid.org/loans/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>federal student aid you haven't mentioned (you may already know about it):</p>

<p>academic competitiveness grant
perkins loan
stafford loans
work study
plus loans</p>

<p><a href="http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/what010.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/what010.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>there are five sources of funding for college:</p>

<p>federal aid
state aid
institutional aid
student/family
outside scholarships</p>

<p>you might want to see if there is any additional state funding that might be available.</p>