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1. Scholarships: Use various scholarship search engines to apply for last minute scholarships in August and September.

2. Part Time Work: If you’re able to manage full time school work and part time employment begin updating your resume and searching on various sites. like indeed or linkdin, to search for jobs. The campus employment search engine for students is very helpful for students to find part time employment.

3. Work Study: provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses. The program encourages community service work and work related to the student’s course of study.

4. Aid Advances, School Based Loans, Emergency Aid: Sometimes you may have college-related costs, such as housing costs or other living expenses, before your financial aid is disbursed to you (or remaining after you have received all of your financial aid). Your school may offer an option to advance your financial aid, offer a school-based loan program, or have an emergency aid procedure.

5. Special Circumstances Reevaluation: Sometimes a family’s finances are not accurately reflected on the FAFSA form because of changes that have occurred, such as job loss/reduction, divorce or separation, or other special circumstances. This may be even more common now that you can file the FAFSA form early and with tax information that can be two years old by the time enrollment begins.

6. Payment Plans: Your school’s billing office, sometimes referred to as the bursar’s office, cashier’s office, or student accounts office, may have payment plans available to help you spread the remaining costs you owe the school over several payments throughout a semester. The payment plan can help you budget the payments rather than paying in one lump sum, possibly helping you avoid costly late fees.

Photo courtesy of: www.fafsa.ed.gov

Information courtesy of: https://blog.ed.gov/2017/07/7-options-to-consider-if-you-didnt-receive-enough-financial-aid-2/