Announcements
Commonwealth Good Citizenship Scholarship
The Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP) presents the Good Citizen Scholarship worth $2,500 for the 2019-2020 academic year. Applicants must be full-time undergraduate students with an extraordinary commitment to community service and has demonstrated creativity in shaping their volunteer activities. Applications can be found here or stop by the office to pick up a copy. Applications should be dropped off at the Financial Aid Office in Zug Memorial Room 208 or emailed to finaid@etown.edu, no later than Monday, April 22, 2019. Please see the Financial Aid Office for additional information.
Exit Counseling Workshop :
Exit counseling is a requirement for any federal student loan borrower that helps prepare students to repay a federal student loan. Students who have received a Subsidized, Unsubsidized, Perkins, or Graduate PLUS Loan must complete exit counseling before they graduate, drop below half-time enrollment, or leave school. It can be completed online at www.studentloans.gov using the student's FSA ID. All undergraduate students will complete Exit Counseling for any undergraduate student loans, graduate students will then repeat this same process for any graduate Unsubsidized or Graduate PLUS loans.
The Office of Financial Aid at Elizabethtown College will be hosting 2 workshops to help students complete exit counseling, no reservation is required.
Spring Workshops: for Undergraduate and Graduate students in the Class of 2019
Monday April 15, 2019
High Library 218
11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Wednesday April 17, 2019
High Library 218
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA):
The 2019–2020 FAFSA is available on October 1, 2018. You can submit it online at https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa. To find more information about the application process, visit our Apply for Financial Aid page. Please contact us with any questions or concerns about the application process at (717) 361-1404 or finaid@etown.edu
Refer to the table below to help determine which year's income information to use on the FAFSA application:
| IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND COLLEGE FROM | YOU CAN SUBMIT THE FAFSA FROM | USING TAX INFORMATION FROM |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019 | January 1, 2017 - June 30,2018 | 2016 |
| July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 | October 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019 | 2017 |
| July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021 | October 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020 | 2018 |
| July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022 | October 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021 | 2019 |
Changes to the IRS Data Retrieval Tool:
The IRS Data Retrieval Tool allows students and parents to access the IRS tax return information needed to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and transfer the tax information directly into their FAFSA from the IRS Web site.
- The IRS DRT remains the fastest, most accurate way to input your tax return information into the FAFSA form.
- For your privacy, the tax information you transfer from the IRS into your FAFSA form will not be visible to you. Instead, you will see “Transferred from the IRS” in the appropriate fields on fafsa.gov, the IRS DRT web page, and on the Student Aid Report.
For more information on the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, click here.