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TRiO/SSS Program

Eligibility

Are you eligible for the program?

Although not all students will qualify for this program, you may be selected for the
TRiO Program if you are:

 

1. a U.S. citizen or permanent resident receiving federal loans or grants;

 

2. academically at need for services;

 

3. income eligible as defined by the yearly U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines and/or;

 

4. the first generation in your family to attend college with neither parent
or the parent with whom you live or your guardian having graduated from a
four-year college and/or;

 

5. disabled with documentation.

 

How does the program select students?

 

1. With a limited number of acceptances, the TRiO/SSS program staff will interview and select applicants based on the above criteria and the applicant’s intent to fully use the program’s services and to graduate.

 

2. The TRiO/SSS program gives priority to:

 

- Incoming freshmen who are income-eligible, first generation, and full- time; - Incoming freshmen who are both income-eligible with documented   disabilities