<p>My counselor told me to apply to this program, so I looked into it, and I'm definitely interested, but I have a few questions:</p>
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<li><p>How many people get in?</p></li>
<li><p>Are the cut-offs tought?</p></li>
<li><p>When are we notified if we are chosen or not?</p></li>
<li><p>Is the deadline in January or are there rolling applications?</p></li>
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<p>My family income is 55,000-60,000 for a household of 6 people with 2 students in college, does this meet the Pell Grant guidelines?</p>
<p>1) 1000 per year
2) What do you mean “cut-offs”? Like financial or what?
3) March is when you find out if you are a finalist (I believe last year was march 8) and then you find out if you a scholar/received the scholarship in the middle of April. Last year, it was sent both by mail (but by regular ground mail…so if you lived far from the scholarship office you were screwed into anxiously waiting while hearing that everyone else very close to their scholarship office found out) and by email (but this was after most of the paper mails were received). </p>
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<li><p>Deadline is January 11.</p></li>
<li><p>You should meet Pell Grant Guidelines; my family’s income last year was $62000 with my brother being in his last year of grad school, and I was borderline of meeting the guidelines; but your EFC, with your family’s lower income and greater amount of dependents, should make you even more likely to be qualified than I was. So I think you should be fine on that part.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for the information!</p>
<p>And as far as getting in, I have a 3.57 UW GPA (3.89 without my freshman grades) but is it usually 4.0 students that get the GMS?</p>