Our goal is to enable all students and their families overcome financial and motivational challenges as they pursue the goal of post-secondary education or training. People with post-secondary education have better job opportunities, earn more income over their lifetime, and accumulate skills and knowledge that can never be taken away.
GRASP seeks to….
- Increase educational opportunities for Virginia students
- Enable all families to provide higher education or training for their students
- Provide free access to all parents and students in GRASP schools to all GRASP services
What can GRASP Financial Aid Counselors do to help me?
- Help in determining how to pay for your student’s education after high school
- Help in determining the “right fit” financially when helping your student select an educational institution
- Help in navigating the financial aid process
- Help in considering choices for your student for after high school
FAQs that GRASP Financial Aid Counselors can answer for you
- Is it really necessary to complete the FAFSA?
- How can we find scholarships?
- Here’s what we’ve done; what else should we do?
- I have no money saved. Can my child still go to college?
- Is it possible to negotiate with a school?
- Can I afford a private school?
Your high school (or Boys and Girls Club) GRASP Financial Aid Counselor is available to you and your student for confidential individual appointments to discuss your financial aid situation.
To make the most of your appointment with your GRASP Financial Aid Advisor, please download and complete the Student Data Sheet by clicking on the yellow button below and bring it with you to your appointment. This is a fillable form that you can complete on your computer before printing it.
Although young people are only 20% of our population, they are 100% of our future
Helping today's youth GRASP infinite opportunities
“I have done bad(ly) in school my whole life until the middle of my junior year when I started meeting with my GRASP advisor. She helped me and pointed me in the right direction and I started making better grades – less C’s, D’s and F’s and now I am making straight A’s. I am going to go to J. Sargeant Reynolds for two years and then transfer and get a bachelors. It’s been great and I think everyone should be a part of GRASP.” Jordan Yoder
GReat Aspirations Scholarship Program, Inc., 4551 Cox Road, Suite 110, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060 804-527-7726
GRASP Financial Aid Advisors are now in the high schools!
Make appointments through the school counseling office or career center in your high school.
If you can not meet with an advisor at your school, call our office at 804-527-7726 to make an appointment with our in-office advisor, Bob Davis.
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