Our income overall for the past 6 years has been extremely low, but dad had that one job in 2015 which, even though it ended after a month or two, gave an income that was just a thousand dollars too high to qualify for most financial aid (given mostly to families with income under 100k). Are there any scholarships that are given specifically for families who are getting literally no financial aid where they intend to enroll?
Depending on your qualifications/stats and the school, you could be offered a merit based scholarship regardless of need. However, it would have to be a full-ride to cover everything (tuition, fees, room and board).
Are you saying your dad worked for one month in 2015 and that bumped your income to over $100,000 for the year?
To be honest, unless you are attending a VERY generous college that meets full need with its institutional funds…your numbers are far too high. Your family income for 4 people would need to be under $50,000 a year to qualify for even a small part of the Pell grant.
At most colleges, a family income of $100,000 would net you need based aid of almost nothing…with just a Direct Loan.
If you are a high stats student…in high school…are you looking at colleges that give merit aid based on your stats?
The income was 100,600 per year, not just for the two months, sorry for the mixup haha.
Getting merit aid based on stats is definitely something I’m going for, but I was just asking whether there’s a scholarship for those not receiving any financial aid–I just know they give scholarships for some pretty crazy rare criteria, but I guess it makes sense that they wouldn’t give scholarships if your “rare criteria” was having high income in the first place.
Thank you for the help though!!
@NorthernMom61 thank you!!
You can explain that your parent no longer has that job and what his current income is. Some schools might make an adjustment.
Does YOUR college have his magic cut off for income. Does your college meet 100% of need?
What was the income without that one job?
Aid is either need based or merit based. there is no in-between.