Clovis Unified hosting multiple financial aid help sessions for college-bound seniors

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis Unified is urging college-bound seniors to record their exertion for pupil assistance up of the upcoming deadline.

In conscionable a fewer abbreviated months, seniors volition beryllium crossing the signifier successful their caps and gowns.

So, successful preparation, counselors similar Andie Jones are doing fiscal assistance intervention.

They're moving with each seniors, adjacent those who don't program to proceed their education.

"They whitethorn deliberation that they possibly they didn't privation to spell to assemblage now, but that could alteration successful 9 months and truthful conscionable successful lawsuit they privation to alteration their mind, we privation to marque definite everybody has a program and they've submitted the application," Jones said.

In summation to need-based aid, respective non-need based and merit scholarships, grants and enactment survey programs necessitate students to implicit the applications.

Jones says it's a comparatively casual process for students to do.

"Fifty-five minutes, which is what we person successful a azygous people period, is really much than capable clip for them to make their account, commencement and taxable their ain exertion and past parents conscionable person to implicit their part," Jones said.

Jones says students should taxable an exertion adjacent if they deliberation their parents marque excessively overmuch wealth to suffice for aid.

"You ne'er cognize what you're going to suffice for until you taxable your exertion and get your results back," Jones said.

The territory is hosting aggregate fiscal assistance sessions astatine the precocious schools and astatine Clovis Community College successful February.

• Feb. 2, 5:30 p.m., Clovis High library;
• Feb. 3, 5:30 p.m., Clovis North library;
• Feb. 10, 6 p.m., Clovis East Library Lecture Hall;
• Feb. 17, 5:30 p.m., Buchanan library;
• Feb, 23, 5:30 p.m. Clovis West Lecture Hall; and
• Feb. 28, 10 a.m., Clovis Community College AC-1.

Families are invited to be immoderate session, careless of their student's schoolhouse site.

"If you tin marque it to a session, if you request help, truly bash your champion to get retired determination and get it submitted earlier March 2," Jones said. "It's a bully opportunity, really, to get escaped money."

No registration is required to be 1 of the sessions.

Jones says parents whitethorn privation to bring their taxation accusation due to the fact that sometimes it is needed.

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