Thursday, December 17, 2009

Dating and College

For the most part, college students are not the financially secure individuals. Lets face it they are usually broke and near the poverty line. If you are a young man in college that is not going to be the most unattractive thing to young ladies. Face it a women wants to feel secure and being financially unstable is not going to help win her over. Don't threat or be scared there are many ways to peel an orange. So here are some cheap date ideas that are romantic and fun.

1. Preparing a fine meal at your house.

Making a meal for someone can be considered intimate and relaxing experience for both people on date. It takes away some of the pressure because it just the two of you. It also shows that you are active and outgoing. Most people usually try taking their dates to cheap restaurants or places like Johnny Rockets. The problem with those places is that nine out ten times the other person has already been there.

1. Setting Up Meeting In The Dinning Hall (Don't recommend)

Meeting your date in the dinning hall is a good cheap date and can be fun. Only recommend if you are living a dorm. Because the problems with meeting in the dinning hall are that your friends or your date's friends may walk in and interrupt the date. It also can be loud in the dinning hall. But if you do not see these as potential issues, then this a good call.

3. Movie Night

Inviting a girl over to watch a movie can be a romantic idea. It is also a good cheap date because for food you could buy frozen pizza and have some dryers ice cream. This type of date makes it a more casual sort of setting for both parties. So both of you can be free to be yourselves and have fun.

FAFSA and Tricks

As many Parents and College students know paying for college is a very challenging task. Just attending a community college it could cost a few thousand dollars a year. Because of related expenses such as books, transportation and any many more. Also not to mention the lost of wages that a college student could be making working a their local McDonald's. So if you are a parent or a student whose funds are low and simply cannot afford education for yourself or your child, then Federal Financial Aid might be your best option to pay for expenses incurred while you or your child is in school.



How Financial Aid works is you have to meet certain Financial requirements.

* Be a U.S. citizen or eligible noncitizen.

* Have a valid Social Security Number (unless you’re from the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau).

* Be registered with Selective Service if you are male and 18 to 25 years of age (go to www.sss.gov for more information).

* Have a high school diploma or a General Education Development (GED) Certificate or pass an exam approved by the U.S. Department of Education.

* Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a regular student working toward a degree or certificate in an eligible program at a school that participates in the federal student aid programs.

* Not have a drug conviction for an offense that occurred while you were receiving federal student aid (such as grants, loans, or work-study).
If you are dependent or independent student you may be asked to summit your tax information as well as your parent's tax information. Parents information will only be asked if for dependent students. It is very important parents must not claim child on their income taxes if their child is lists themselves as independent. This could result in the loss of Financial Aid.

If you do not meet some of the FAFSA requirements or need a little extra help with the college expenses there are more programs that can help. If you are attending a local community college that school may have something called a Board of Governors Fee Weaver. It is a program that the name varies from school to school and what is required of the student. The program is designed to help low income students that are either independent or dependent students pay for their classes, excluding health and other fees. With dependent students, parents will be asked to summit their tax information to the school and must make under $24000.00 a year. For independent student the bar is set much lower. Students who have no income simply have to write a letter stating how the generated income from the last year. Again parents of independent students must not claim their child on their taxes.

Both Financial Aid and Board of Governors Fee Weavers have age requirements in order define if a student is independent or not. They are also implemented differently because of how the school conducts it adminstrative activities. 23 is the age a student is considered independent most by school's Financial and the U.S. Government. The student must also not be listed on any income tax statement when the filing. If the student is listed he will be consider dependent and may be disqualified. This age restriction is not valid if a student has gotten emancipation from his or her parents.




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