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College Financial Aid Workshops — FAFSA Help

AimeeTheLibrarian

FAFSA imageFilling out the Federal Application for Free Student Aid (FAFSA) can be a challenge. We are offering help from experienced FAFSA advisers from the Great Aspirations Scholarship program (GRASP). Sign up now for a help session with a GRASP adviser at one of our libraries. You will get one-on-one help in a small group setting.

Tuckahoe Library

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

We have 18 spots at Tuckahoe, nine at 5pm and nine at 6:30pm. Call now to get your spot!

Registration begins October 8, 2016. Call 501-1910 x.5 for more information.

Libbie Mill Library
Thursday, November 17, 2016
We have 16 spots at Libbie Mill, eight at 5pm and eight at 6:30pm. Call now to get your spot! Registration begins October 17, 2016. For more information, call 501-1940.

Here’s what you need to bring to fill out the FAFSA:

  • Your Social Security number.
  • Your parents’ Social Security numbers if you are a dependent student.
  • Your driver’s license number if you have one.
  • Your Alien Registration number if you are not a U.S. citizen.
  • Federal tax information or tax returns including IRS W-2 information, for you (and your spouse, if married), and for your parents if you are a dependent student. If you are filling out the 2017-18 FAFSA, you’ll also need 2015 tax information. (Starting with the 2017-18 FAFSA, you’ll need to report income information from the tax year two years prior to the academic year).
  • Records of your untaxed income, such as child support received, interest income, and veterans’ noneducation benefits, for you, and for your parents if you are a dependent student
  • Information on cash; savings and checking account balances; investments, including stocks, and bonds, and real estate, but not including the home in which you live; and business and farm assets for you, and for your parents if you are a dependent student.
Teen Events

Crush the ACT Test! Free Practice Tests @ Your Library

AdrienneTheLibrarian
SAT image  We have an ACT Practice Test day coming up! All practice tests are administered by the Princeton Review. After the test, a representative of the Princeton Review will return to the library (about 1-2 weeks later) to pass out results and give tips on taking the test. To sign up for a any of these Practice Tests, please register for the test with the Princeton Review (put in your zip code and the correct date to find the test at your library). There is limited seating for each test.

Twin Hickory Library
Saturday, April 02, 2016; 10:00am-2:00pm ACT Practice Exam
Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 6pm, ACT Practice Exam Review
For more information, call 290-9200 x5.

If you can’t attend any of the practice tests, we have another way for you to prep for the SAT (and other tests). We offer a free online prep site called Learning Express Library as well as a ton of study guides in book-form. All you will need to access the site or check out a study guide is your library card number!
Good luck!
Teen Events

Crush the SAT, ACT or PSAT Test! Free Practice Tests @ Your Library

AdrienneTheLibrarian
SAT image  We have a bunch of SAT, ACT & PSAT Practice Test days coming up! All practice tests are administered by the Princeton Review. After the test, a representative of the Princeton Review will return to the library (about 1-2 weeks later) to pass out results and give tips on taking the test. To sign up for a any of these Practice Tests, please register for the test with the Princeton Review (put in your zip code and the correct date to find the test at your library). There is limited seating for each test.

Fairfield Library
Saturday, March 19, 2016; 10:00am-2:00pm, PSAT Practice Exam
Thursday, April 07, 2016; 6:30pm, PSAT Practice Exam Review
Call 290-9330 for more information.

Glen Allen Library
Saturday, March 12, 2016; 1:00pm-5:00pm, SAT Practice Exam
Wednesday, March 23, 2016; 7pm, SAT Practice Exam Review
For more information call 290-9500.

Tuckahoe Library
Saturday, March 19, 2016; 9:00am-1:00pm, SAT Practice Exam
Wednesday, March 30, 2016; 6:30pm, SAT Practice Exam Review
Call 290-9130 for more information.

Twin Hickory Library
Saturday, April 02, 2016; 10:00am-2:00pm ACT Practice Exam
Wednesday, April 13, 2016; 6pm, ACT Practice Exam Review
For more information, call 290-9200 x5.

If you can’t attend any of the practice tests, we have another way for you to prep for the SAT (and other tests). We offer a free online prep site called Learning Express Library as well as a ton of study guides in book-form. All you will need to access the site or check out a study guide is your library card number!
Good luck!