Financial Aid Information

Seniors:

Get your FAFSA done ASAP if you are college or voc/tech bound! If you receive ANY kind of error code you will need to call FAFSA directly. We cannot access your account. The number is: 1-800-433-3243 and remember they are on eastern time.

The SWOCC financial aid office can help in certain circumstances regardless of where you are going to attend school..

SWOCC FINANCIAL AID OFFICE | DELLWOOD HALL RM 22 | 541-888-7352

Look in the class of 2025 under financial aid, there is a lot of information there.. There are also several scholarship links under scholarships.

Financial Aid Staff from SWOCC will be here this Wednesday, 11/6, at 6pm, in the MHS Library. It doesn't matter where you are going to college - this is for everyone.

FSA ID Creation: https://studentaid.gov/fsa-id/create-account/
We Encourage FAFSA families to create their FSA IDs prior to completing the FAFSA in December

FAFSA Parent Wizard (works for ORSAA families too!): https://studentaid.gov/fafsa-apply/parents
Help FAFSA (and ORSAA) families determine which parent(s) to use on the form with this interactive tool

FAFSA Help Center: https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/help
A one-stop URL for families to get answers to their FAFSA questions

Federal Student Aid YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FederalStudentAid
FSA has updated videos for students and families

The OSAC Scholarship application has opened up as well as the Oregon Promise Application. Both of these can be found at: https://oregonstudentaid.gov/ Be sure to save your username and password somewhere you can easily access it.

If you were not able to attend the online Paying for College presentation last month I have a link to it for you to view: https://sites.google.com/view/payingforcollege2024-25/home

Financial Aid Awards

The following articles walk you through what to look for when evaluating your financial aid award(s) and also offers suggestions on how to write a financial aid appeal asking for professional judgement:

College Essay Guy: How to Understand Your Financial Aid Award Letter
Oregon Goes to College: How to Compare Financial Aid Offers: http://oregongoestocollege.org/blog/how-compare-financial-aid-offers

Here is information for the Coos Bay Student Loan fund for post secondary education loans:

http://coosbaystudentloan.org/

Debi Springsteen

CB Student Loan Committee

Secretary