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PCC Hosts Session On Feb. 24 To Provide Financial Aid Information & Assistance

Polk Community College Joins With Polk County Schools And State of Florida In Free “College Goal” Program

02/06/2007: Polk Community College and the Polk County Schools will be participating in a statewide initiative that will provide Financial Aid information and help high school students and their parents who attend a free workshop called College Goal Sunday.

The event will be held in PCC’s Student Center on the Winter Haven campus on Saturday, Feb. 24, 1- 3 p.m. A $500 scholarship that can be used at any college will be given away to someone attending the session.

Financial aid counselors will be assisting high school students in 40 counties throughout the state. “We realized our state had to take steps to help with the process,” said David Armstrong, Florida’s Chancellor of Community Colleges. He expects the event will draw 2,000 high-school students, most from low-income families and many the first in their families to attend college.

Millions of dollars are available in student aid, but many parents are confused and discouraged by the forms. One of the biggest barriers that college bound low-income and minority students is the eye glazing federal form, Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as FAFSA. Students who show up for the College Goal event at PCC will get help filling it out.

For more information: www.fldoe.org/collegegoalsunday