could use any help on this possible!
What field of study?
Are you talking about Masters or PhD?
Graduate school financial aid is largely need based and is based on the strength of your application and the college’s desire to have you as a member of the grad class cohort on your field.
So…any grants you get will be merit aid sorts of grants. There are no Pell Grants for grad school students, for example. In addition, your receipt of grad school grants would be totally up to the grad school(s) to which you gain acceptance.
Grad school “aid” comes in the form of scholarships, grants, assistantships, fellowships, sometimes work study, sometimes tuition remissions, and loans.
Grad school students can take grad plus loans out in their own names up to the cost of attendance as long as they don’t exceed the annual amount or the aggregate amount.
@Snowbell1 - Welcome to the Forum. It would help you to get a clear answer if you were more specific about your questions. Provide us with information about your intended major, degree level and something about your curent university career.
@thumper1 - Do you mean that grad school financial aid is largely not need-based? The rest of your comment seems to indicate that.
In my experience, most assistance for graduate school is based on merit - on your undergraduate performance (and post-college, in fields where that matters). Most scholarships and fellowships - and even most assistantships - are based on your grades and experience. Even some of the aid that’s partially need-based still has a merit component to it (like some professional programs do have scholarships set aside for students from lower-income backgrounds, but you still have to compete with good grades).