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Financial Aid eligibility for summer semester is based on the amount of unused aid from the previous fall and/or spring semesters.

Current Century College Students

Current students that have completed the FAFSA for the current academic year (fall or spring semester) will receive a notice of summer aid eligibility approximately a week after registration for summer classes.

View your Summer Award Letter at eServices.

New Students/New Financial Aid Applicants

If you are applying for financial aid for summer semester, you must:

• be admitted to Century College and enrolled in an “aid eligible” program.
• complete the FAFSA for the current academic year (i.e. prior fall/spring) before June 30.
  Note: The FAFSA deadline of June 30 is prior to the end of the summer semester.

The Consortium Agreement is a process where you can add credits from another Minnesota State college/university (host school) to the credits or enrollment at Century College (home school) to increase credit load, and possibly, financial aid. Students must be enrolled for at least one course at Century College to have a consortium agreement approved and processed through Century College.

Century College agrees to accept the credits taken at the host school on the same basis as Century College courses. The course(s) taken at the host school will count toward the student’s enrollment level for calculating financial aid eligibility.

The student is responsible for the host school’s tuition and fees by the semester tuition deadline.

Host School is a Minnesota State School

As part of the Minnesota State system, Century College students are encouraged to complete the Financial Aid Consortium Agreement form. Students who do not complete this form are encouraged to contact the Financial Aid Office to ensure timely consortium processing.

Submit completed form to the Century College Financial Aid Office.

Change of Income

If your family’s financial situation changes after you have submitted the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), or if you feel that the results from the FAFSA don’t fully represent your family’s financial situation, contact the Financial Aid Office and let us know your circumstances. You may be eligible to apply for a Professional Judgment-Change of Income.

Death, separation, divorce, unemployment, loss of employment, unusual medical/dental care expenses, or loss of non-taxable income or benefits are all examples of unusual circumstances that may affect your financial aid eligibility. Our staff will help you determine if your circumstances warrant changing the FAFSA results and what documentation may be necessary to make the changes.

Change in Dependency Status

The FAFSA asks a series of questions that determine whether you are a dependent or independent student for purposes of applying for federal student aid. If you are a dependent student, you must provide your legal parent’s information, as well as your own information, on your FAFSA. A legal parent is your biological, adoptive, or your parent as determined by the state (for example, if the parent is listed on your birth certificate).

However, in some circumstances, students may be unable to provide parental information on the application. In these cases, students must still complete the FAFSA, but submit it without parent information. The student must then contact the Financial Aid Office to complete the appropriate steps for requesting a review of their dependency status. Our office will help determine whether a student’s dependency status can be changed to independent.

Completion of your financial aid application before the term starts allows you to review your eligibility and ensure your financial aid pays on time.

The 2022-2023 deadline to complete this process is 120 days after you were last enrolled or September 16, 2023 whichever is earlier.

Students who are eligible for MN State Grant funds must complete their FAFSA or MN Dream Act application by the 30th day of the term in which they are applying for aid.

For more resources, including information on paying for college in multiple languages, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education has some resources:

• Publications, including how to apply for financial aid.
• Videos on Paying for College