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Office of Financial Assistance
Welcome to the DCS Financial Aid & Scholarships website. All of the information you will need to apply for scholarships, grants, loans, and work study employment can be found here.
Please follow the links on the left hand side of this page to navigate to the various areas. If you cannot find the information you are looking for, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.
Deadlines and Other Important Information:
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The Financial Aid Office will use your "dmail" account to notify you of important financial aid/scholarship information. You will not receive financial aid notifications in any other way.
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Be sure to check for notification of:
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Award status
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Missing items which might be holding up your award
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Application deadlines
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NEW FOR 2012-2013 - PELL GRANT LIFETIME LIMIT - In December 2011, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74). This law has significantly impacted the Pell Grant Program. Beginning in Fall semester 2012, students are now limited to 12 full time semesters (or 6 full years) of Pell Grant eligibility during their lifetime. This change affects all students regardless of when or where they received their first Pell Grant. Students that are currently receiving a Pell Grant in the academic year 2011-2012 and have already used the 6 full years of their Pell Grant eligibility will no longer be eligible to receive a Pell Grant starting Fall semester 2012. If you have attending 12 or more semesters as a full-time student and have received Pell grants funds each semester, you may not be eligible for Pell grant funds beginning the 2012 Fall semester.
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It's not too late to apply for federal financial aid for the 2011-12 school year. Just follow the How to apply steps located in the Financial Aid Handbook.
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Pell Grants for Summer 2012 - If you received your full Pell grant for both Fall and Spring semesters (attended full-time, 12 or more credits both semesters), you will not have any Pell grant eligibility remaining for the 2012 Summer semester. You may have remaining Pell eligibility for summer semester if you only attended one semester or attended part-time.
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Repeat Courses - New this year: per new federal regulation, federal financial aid may not be used to pay for more than one repeat of a previously passed course (class) in which you received a grade A through D-. This new rule is effective July 1, 2011. (Example - A student takes Math 1010 and receives financial aid for the course; the student gets a grade of D. The student takes the course again, and receives financial aid again; this time the grade received is a C-. If the student wants to take the course yet again in order to improve the grade, he or she would NOT be able to receive financial aid again for this course. PLEASE NOTE: this student would be enrolled for 12 credit hours but will have Pell grant money disbursed for only 9 credit hours). There are NO exceptions to this federal rule.
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