The CT hits the streets: Financial Aid

Q1: What type of aid do you receive?
Q2: If you receive financial aid, how sat7isfied are you with the aid you were rewarded?
Q3: How could the application process be improved?
Q4: What are your thoughts about the government’s proposed $12.7 billion budget cut for federal financial aid?
Q5: Do you think student loans are worthwhile? Why or why not?

Helen Hou, 20, senior musical performance major

Q1: Scholarship
Q2: Very unsatisfied
Q3: It could have been more specific.
Q4: I hate it. I hate education cuts of any kind. The biggest cuts come out of arts, and we (music students) have to practice.
Q5: For myself, I don’t like loans. But for some people, it’s absolutely necessary.

Bryce McCormick, 24, junior jazz studies major

Q1: Grant, loans, scholarship
Q2: Satisfied
Q3: If it was all consolidated into one Web page. There are always so many forms to fill out, so many categories.
Q4: I hate it. You go to many countries in the world, and they have all this funding for scholarships. That’s one of the reasons I voted for Kerry. Who’s to say because one family has money and one doesn’t, that one should go to college?
Q5: I think it does help people get a college education.

Willie Derr, 23, senior vocal performance major

Q1: Loans
Q2: Unsatisfied
Q3: Pretty well the way it is
Q4: I don’t like it. People get stuck with a $2,000 bill and can’t finish their sophomore year.
Q5: Yeah.

Mikki Ciner, 36, graduate forensic science major

Q1: Loans
Q2: Very satisfied
Q3: I didn’t go through the financial aid office here.
Q4: It all sucks. It hurts lower income families.
Q5: Yeah, this one has allowed me to go to school full time. I have a mortgage and a car. It helps me not stress out about those things.

Donald Holliday, 22, senior criminal justice major

Q1: Scholarship
Q2: Very satisfied
Q3: It’s pretty good. I think it’s going to be complicated any way you do it.
Q4: I haven’t really heard about it.
Q5: Yeah, some of them are. They give you an opportunity to go to college.

Amesha Custis, 18, freshman clinical exercise science major

Q1: Loans
Q2: Unsatisfied
Q3: Online was pretty quick, so it was all right.
Q4: It sucks. It’s all going to stop the kids from going to school.
Q5: Well, they can help out. It’s not like it’s a free ride because you have to pay back the interest rate.