How does Financial Aid work if trying to get a degree from TESU??

[Gymfan15]

If you've got that list, I'd be interested...hey, maybe I can get the most bang for my buck and take the capstone and a 6cr course for less than the price of taking the capstone without aid? :p But I dunno if there would be any courses that would fit within my degree plan...I'm mainly looking for stuff that I could use as gen ed electives.

[cookderosa]

If you've got that list, I'd be interested...hey, maybe I can get the most bang for my buck and take the capstone and a 6cr course for less than the price of taking the capstone without aid? :p But I dunno if there would be any courses that would fit within my degree plan...I'm mainly looking for stuff that I could use as gen ed electives.

I think the list was lost in the transfer to the new platform- but YOU can make the list and share it with me There are probably around a dozen. Just click on each class to see how many credits - copy the ones for 6 into a doc and post. Here's where they are: http://www2.tesu.edu/listall.php

[lmckown]

Quick question. If you are going with the comprehensive tuition plan and you are taking 5 classes and 4 teceps over two terms does anyone know how the financial aid would work if going with the loan option? Do teceps count if you go with the comprehensive tuition rate? Or does it only include the actual courses?

[sarg123]

Financial aid (Pell Grants) in TESU covers two classes a term. So you get around 1400 a term - which doesn't cover the whole thing. I think that you can take out government loans (if you're eligible) if you take either one or two classes a term, and the amount depends on a lot of different factors.

I would assume that if you take five classes in two terms, you would only get aid for four classes.

Also, TECEPs don't count towards financial aid at all, but they are included if you pay for the comprehensive plan.

[originalamyj]

Just to clarify to be sure I understand...

--If you qualify based on your FAFSA, you can potentially get $6000 per year for use toward tuition. At a regular semester school, this is about $3000 per term.

--You must be a full-time enrolled student at that school.

--If the school is TESU, you could use that money to take 6cr of classes and this = full-time? The grant would not cover all expenses but it may go a long way toward it.

--If the school is XYZ local state school, you have to be accepted and enrolled, and full-time status is more like 12cr per semester, is it not? Which means that same $3000 per term hardly covers anything...?

[a2jc4life]

I'm fairly certain that the at-least-half-time requirement is federal. You have to stay at least half time (6 credits/semester) to qualify for federal aid. BUT some online programs use unconventional pacing, and not a classic semester breakdown. Ashford, for example, does classes one at a time, over only 5 weeks each, and I'm told that's considered a full-time schedule. So it could be that Liberty's online program has some more condensed classes like that.

[Gymfan15]

As I understand, from my personal experience...

You get awarded a certain amount of aid. That aid is divided up evenly among your school's terms, so if you're eligible for 5k a year, you get about 2.5k per semester IF you are full-time.

A lot of private schools like TESU have course fees so high that even if you get the full aid amount you can't cover the whole cost, but if you take cheaper CC courses, you often get to TAKE money home because the amount of your aid exceeds the cost of your tuition. You can then put that money towards books or other things, I think.

[davewill]

I do know that a number of people here handled financial aid by doing a full-time semester/year at a CC, which didn't use all of the award, then using the leftover aid on either alternative credit or more classes.

[originalamyj]

Hmmm, so she could take say 9cr at our local cc which would cost $765 not incl books, and use the rest of that theoretical $3000 toward books and other online classes? Or pocket that toward TESU’s fees?

I see that she could potentially take almost all her credits then at a cc which would leave upper level courses. She hoped to take those locally here at the extension college perhaps. I’ll have to go see what their courses cost per hour. My concern with them is that they will require enrollment but perhaps that’s not that big of a deal.

The reason I’m thinking all this through is A. the priority that she have no debt for her bachelors, B. taking some upper level classes locally where she can have the solid classroom experience with other people majoring in what she also loves and under hopefully good professor/mentors, and C. Still getting her degree from TESU which has a few more flexible requirements than our local schools, and. D. She does hope to go to graduate school so a gpa in those upper level courses locally would be beneficial.

[sanantone]

Hmmm, so she could take say 9cr at our local cc which would cost $765 not incl books, and use the rest of that theoretical $3000 toward books and other online classes? Or pocket that toward TESU’s fees?

I see that she could potentially take almost all her credits then at a cc which would leave upper level courses. She hoped to take those locally here at the extension college perhaps. I’ll have to go see what their courses cost per hour. My concern with them is that they will require enrollment but perhaps that’s not that big of a deal.

The reason I’m thinking all this through is A. the priority that she have no debt for her bachelors, B. taking some upper level classes locally where she can have the solid classroom experience with other people majoring in what she also loves and under hopefully good professor/mentors, and C. Still getting her degree from TESU which has a few more flexible requirements than our local schools, and. D. She does hope to go to graduate school so a gpa in those upper level courses locally would be beneficial.

9 credits isn't full-time. 12 credits per semester or 6 months is full-time. Unless there is a consortium agreement, only the credits taken at the school for which you're receiving financial aid will count.