Glossary
- Academic Period
- Academic Year
- Accredited School
- Additional Unsubsidized Stafford
- Administrative Forbearance
- Administrative Wage Garnishment
- Aggregate Loan Limit
- Americorps
- Annual Loan Limit
- Anticipated Graduation Date
- Award Year
- Bankruptcy
- Base Direct/Stafford Loan Amount
- Base Year
- Borrower
- Borrower Based Academic Year
- Borrower Specific Deferment
- Campus-based Financial Aid Programs
- Capitalization
- Certification
- Citizen/Eligible Non-Citizen
- Clock Hour
- Collection Costs
- Consummated Loan
- Co-signer
- Cost of Attendance
- Default
- Deferment
- Delayed Delivery
- Delinquency
- Dependent Student
- Disbursement
- Discharge
- Documentation
- Economic Hardship
- Electronic Signature
- Eligible Borrower
- Endorser
- Enrolled
- Entrance Counseling
- Exit Counseling
- Expected Family Contribution
- Extended Repayment Schedule
- FAA
- Federal Direct Loan Program
- Federal Family Education Loan Program
- Federal Perkins Loan
- Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
- Federal Work-Study (FWS)
- Financial Aid Package
- Financial Aid Transcript
- Financial Need
- Forbearance
- Foreign School
- Forgiveness
- Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
- Grace Period
- Grade Level
- Graduate PLUS
- Graduate Repayment Schedule
- Half-Time Student
- HEA
- Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Schedule
- Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) Schedule
- Independent Student
- In-School Period
- Interest
- Interim Period
- Late Charges
- Leave Of Absence
- Lender
- Loan Period
- Loan Proceeds
- Mandatory Administrative Forbearance/ Mandatory Forbearance
- Master Promissory Note (MPN)
- National Credit Bureau
- National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)
- Need Analysis
- Origination Fee
- Parent
- Parent PLUS Loan
- Partial Cancellation
- Partial Financial Hardship (PFH)
- Pay Period
- Pell Grant
- Permanent Resident
- Prepayment
- Principal Balance
- Professional Judgement
- Program of Study
- Proprietary Institution
- Proration
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
- Qualified Education Benefit
- Refund
- Rehabilitation
- Reinstatement (of Financial Aid Eligibility)
- Repayment Period
- Repayment Schedule
- Repayment Start Date
- Return of Title IV Funds
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
- Satisfactory Repayment Arrangement
- Scheduled Academic Year (SAY)
- Servicer
- Social Security Number
- Standard Repayment Schedule
- Statement of Educational Purpose
- Student Aid Report (SAR)
- Subsidized Loan
- Teacher Shortage Area
- Teach Grant
- Third-Party Servicer
- Title IV
- Unsubsidized Loan
- Variable Interest Rates
- Verification
- Withdrawal Date