Financial Aid
Direct Deposit
Posted November 18, 2008 by Stefanie
Do you want your financial aid earlier than ever before? Do you want to skip the hassle of taking your financial aid checks to be cashed?
Then sign up to have your financial aid be directly deposited into your bank account! It’s easy! Just log in to my.nmsu.edu select the student financial aid tab, click on financial aid, then go to direct deposit enrollment. All you need is the name of your bank and account and routing numbers, then click submit.
VA Course Approval for Spring 2009 Semester
Posted November 4, 2008 by Charles Turpin
SPRING 2009 - VA COUNSELING
All students receiving VA benefits, who plan to attend the 2009 SPRING semester, must have all courses approved by an advisor prior to registration. Course approval will not take place on any registration day. Certification for students who do not get prior approval will be processed after registration which may delay benefits.
Academic Advisors will be available on a walk-in basis: Mon-Thurs 8:30am – 5:30pm.
Schedules are now available on-line at http://my.nmsu.edu. The hard-copy schedule is available now. You may now see an advisor at any time.
►Registration for continuing students begins:
-November 13, 2008 for Crimson Scholars
-November 17, 2008 for Seniors (94+ credits)
-November 18, 2008 for Juniors (62-93 credits)
-November 19, 2008 for Sophomores (28-61 credits)
-November 20, 2008 for Freshmen (0-27 credits)
►Readmitted and continuing students begins: November 21, 2008
►New Transfers begins: December 1, 2008
►New/Readmitted/Continuing students begins: December 2, 2008
* Online registering also requires prior course approval *
Posted October 23, 2008 by dvaldespino
Pictured above are: Recipients ZaSean Fowler and Raelynn Johnson and Greg Shaver, OFCU Vice President of Marketing
Four students have been awarded the Otero Federal Credit Union Scholarship for 2008/2009. The recipients are: Raelynn L. Johnson, Tara L. VanCleave, Lisa D. Lance and ZaSean Fowler. Each student was awarded $1000 ($500 per semester).
The fund has been set up by Otero Federal Credit Union to help with
college education expenses for students in the 4 county area that OFCU serves in
southern New Mexico. The money was raised at their annual Memorial Day
Madness Golf Tournament at Desert Lakes Golf Course. OFCU anticipates
continuing this scholarship for quite a long time.
OFCU is committed to helping the local communities which it serves. This
is one way to give back to the people who have helped them succeed in their
mission.
college.gov
Posted September 18, 2008 by dvaldespino
college.gov is being built by the U.S. Department of Education in collaboration with students. This site is intended to be the go-to source for information and resources about planning, preparing and paying for postsecondary education (such as 2- or 4-year colleges and universities, and vocational or career schools).
Most importantly, college.gov is intended to provide inspiration and hope to all students, and encourage them to consider and pursue a postsecondary education.
Five Scholarship Hunting Tips
Posted September 18, 2008 by dvaldespino
If I had to tell you in a very short amount of time the five most effective things you could be doing to boost your scholarship search efforts , they would be as follows:
1. Commit a day a week to find and apply for scholarships. One of the easiest ways to sabotage yourself is to not set up a routine or a schedule. You will put off your scholarship search until it is too late. Instead, pick a day of the week, like every Sunday, and make a commitment that by sundown, you will have found three new scholarships to apply for and have filed applications for them.
2. Learn to harness the power of Google. As detailed in the free eBook, Scholarship Search Secrets available at: http://www.studentscholarshipsearch.com/ebook/, Google is probably the most powerful tool you can use to find scholarships. Search websites like Google require a little bit of learning in order to get the most out of them. But when you do, the value they can deliver is immeasurable. The more specific you can be in your scholarship searches, the better the results will be.
3. Search your own school’s website.
4. Get personal and ask your financial aid office what other awards and resources are available. Financial aid offices are full of not only scholarship resources, but also financial aid administrators, some of whom have decades of experience in helping students pay for college. Make sure to visit during off-peak hours and times of the year to get to know your financial aid staff; they may be able to point you towards additional resources.
5. Expect rejection and do not take it personally. Recently a woman who applied for 60 scholarships landed 15 of those 60 but that was enough to earn her $130,000 in college funding and a free ride for four years. Had she given up after the first couple of rejection letters, she would never have managed to pay for college. Instead she kept going and going, and the results speak for themselves. Keep going!
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