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Get Started
- New Students
- Apply
Early for Financial Aid & Scholarships
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FAFSA, loans, grants, scholarships, and student employment are types of financial aid. These are ways to help you pay for college. You will not automatically qualify for financial aid. You must apply. Processing your aid application often take up to 10 weeks or longer. You may not learn if you get aid until several weeks or months after you apply.
Apply for aid as soon as possible. First priority goes to students who apply by mid-March before the start of the financial aid year. Each school year at Aims begins with the Fall semester. The following Spring and Summer semesters are part of that financial aid year.
- Fall classes begin in late August. Apply for aid as early as 7 months before classes start.
- Spring classes begin in early January. Apply for aid as early as 12 months before classes start.
- Summer classes begin in late May. Apply for aid as early as 16 months before your classes start.
- Apply online for the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
- Check Aims' website for the up-to-date listing of scholarships
available
- Complete
Your Application for Aims Admission
There is no application fee or deadline
- Meet the Assessment Requirements
What tests/courses/scores do you need to have?
- ACT scores (Reading 17, Sentence Skills 18, Math 19), or
- SAT scores (Verbal 430, Math 460), or
- Successful completion of college-level math and English courses,
or
- If you don't have the above, take our Accuplacer
assessment
- Meet with an Advisor
- Review assessment scores
- Discuss programs and requirements
- Help select classes
- Identify academic resources to help you be successful
- Call to make an appointment!
- Greeley Campus (970) 339-6251
- Fort Lupton Campus (303) 857-4022, ext. 4300
- Loveland Campus (970) 667-4611, ext. 3300
- Register for Classes - Register Early!
- Summer and Fall registration for new students begins in late-April
- Spring registration for new students starts in mid-November.
- Complete the Payment Process
- By the First
Payment Deadline, do ONE of the following or all your classes will be dropped:
- Pay in full
- Sign up for MyPaymentPlan
- Be AWARDED Financial Aid
- Submit 3rd party paperwork to the Cashier's office
- If you sign up for class after the First Payment Deadline, do ONE of the above on the day you sign up.
- Purchase your Textbooks and Supplies
- Buy your books and supplies on-campus or online
- Visit the Aims' bookstore in
the College Center for new, used or rental books
- Textbooks can be ordered online at www.efollett.com
- Talk to Your Parents/Family
- In high school, your parents and others have the legal right to look at your school records. When you start college, no matter how young you are, the law gives you privacy rights.
- If you want to share your records with your parent, you need to complete a Release of Confidential Information form.
The form can be found:
- Want to Visit Campus? Want to Talk to Someone Before Applying?
Come to a Get Started Session. Friends and family are welcome and no reservations are needed!
- Where and When:
Aims Community College, College Center in Greeley (5401 W. 20th Street, Greeley)
5:30pm, 1st & 3rd Monday of each month.
Aims Community College, Loveland Campus (104 E. Fourth Street, Loveland)
1:00pm and 5:30pm, 2nd Wednesday of each month, excluding June and July.
Aims Community College, Fort Lupton Campus (260 College Avenue, Fort Lupton)
starting in February; 12:30pm and 5:30pm, 1st Monday of each month, excluding June and July
Additional dates and times are listed in Upcoming Events
- Contact:
email getstarted@aims.edu or call 970-339-6239 (Hablo Español), 970-339-6292 or 970-339-6477.
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