[282] MTSU Serves as Feb. 14 College Goal Sunday Site

Release date: Feb. 2, 2010

News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
College Goal Sunday contact: Bonnie McCarty, 615-904-8414


MTSU Serves as Feb. 14 College Goal Sunday Site


(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU Office of Financial Aid personnel will be available to assist high-school seniors during the annual College Goal Sunday, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the north lobby of the Business and Aerospace Building.
College Goal Sunday helps prospective college students obtain free, one-on-one on-site assistance filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form and lets them talk to financial-aid professionals about resources and applying for scholarships, grants, student loans and borrowing.
Students and their parents or guardians should bring their 2009 federal tax returns or other income documentation, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, 2009 W-2 forms or year-end pay stubs and bank statements.
Other on-site assistance will include:
• adult/non-traditional student concerns;
• financial literacy; and
• foster and homeless youth;
For more information, visit www.mtsu.edu/financialaid/cgs.shtml or call 615-898-2830.

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