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My daughter is a Jr in High School. When should we start researching and applying for grants/scholarships and typically how long does it take to receive acceptance or denial responses for scholarship applications? I’d like to plan ahead if I know she won’t qualify for a particular grant/scholarship.
Your daughter will graduate high school in spring 2020 and plans to start college in the fall of 2020.
You can start researching scholarships now. Some scholarships may be accepting applications for Fall of 2020.
Grants are offered by the individual college. Once your daughter fills out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which will be available for her to do as early as July 1 2019, the schools she applies to/attends will use that information to determine her eligibility for grants and what her total financial aid package would look like. Financial aid can also include student loans, which have to paid back, and work study.
The time frame for finding out if your daughter received a scholarship will vary by individual scholarship. There’s no standard in terms of when you will find out.
You will find out if your daughter received grant money after the FAFSA is submitted and your daughter has applied to individual schools, the colleges time frame for awarding financial aid will vary by institution.
I’m glad you’re thinking about this early!
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