Contact Information
Phone#: 818.364.7648
FAX #: 818.364.7708
EMAIL: lamcfinaid@lamission.edu
Our Federal School Code is 012550
Regular Office Hours
(as of March 1, 2012)
Mon and Wed: 8am - 2pm & 5pm - 7pm
Tues and Thurs: 8am - 2pm
Friday: 8am - Noon
Location
Student Services Annex of the Instructional Building
Financial Aid & Scholarships Office
Welcome to Los Angeles Mission College!
Welcome to Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC) Financial Aid & Scholarships Office (FAO) website and thank you for choosing our college to begin or continue your educational journey. Getting a college education is an investment in your future! We want your educational experience at our college to be challenging, rewarding and supportive. Therefore, we are pleased to provide you with the information and tools to assist you in completing your educational goals. Please navigate through the various links in our website and we encourage you to visit our website regularly for updates and new information.
Financial Aid & Scholarships Staff
Current Announcements:
- UPDATE: The Financial Aid Office will be CLOSED on FRIDAY, APRIL 20th for a staff training event. We will return to normal hours on Monday, April 23rd.
- QUICK REMINDER: FILING THE FAFSA IS FREE!
If you receive an email, letter, or call from an organization offering to help you with completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, BEWARE! The FAFSA is a FREE FORM available directly through the U.S. Department of Education's FAFSA website (www.fafsa.gov).
We have received information from another school that there is a company in California sending letters to students and parents requesting a $59 fee in order to process financial aid for the 2012-2013 academic year. The company's logo may look like the log from the U.S. Department of Education, but this company is NOT ASSOCIATED with the FAFSA program!
If you receive emails, letters, or calls from such organizations and have questions, please feel free to stop by or call our Financial Aid Office for advice. No one is required to pay to file a FAFSA: it's FREE! - For MARCH and APRIL, we are changing our front counter hours. We will be open our regular hours on Mondays and Wednesdays (8am-2pm & 5-7pm) and Fridays (8am-Noon), but will only be open 8am-2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For updates like this, check us out on Twitter on Facebook.
- For students who have failed an Ability to Benefit (ATB test) and need to obtain supplemental instruction before retesting: The Learning Resource Center (LRC) on campus (in the library) now offers the help you need! The Assessment Center will need to "refer" you to the LRC, but otherwise the LRC has the online PLATO Web Learning Network program available for use. Depending upon your level of English and Math, the PLATO program will assess your abilities and create an individualized program of study. Once you have completed all required lessons, you will be able to return to the Assessment Center to schedule a retest. For assistance on logging into PLATO, check out the "6 Easy Steps to LOGIN to PLATO (for ATB students)." And, for addition resources, checkout the LRC webpage devoted to Student Online Resources (look for the ATB Success Links section).
- The 2012-2013 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is available online. If you will be attending LA Mission College or another college sometime between the Fall 2012 and Summer 2013 semesters, you NEED to complete the 2012-2013 FAFSA for financial aid consideration. The form can be completed online at www.fafsa.gov, which has been redesigned to make the process simpler and quicker. if you are a current student of LA Mission College and need help completing your form, call us about our FAFSA workshops held throughout the year (starting in mid-February).
- For financial aid applicants who need to "update their Educational Goal with the college." To ensure that only eligible students receive federal and state financial aid, we have changed the way you report and we collect information regarding your current educational goal. You can update your Educational Goal status (as only degree-seeking, certificate-seeking, or transfer students are generally eligible for federal and state financial aid) ONLINE. Need help in completing the process? Check out our online tutorial here. If you do not have an eligible Educational Goal, this can: 1) delay the processing of your financial aid file, which means you may not be eligible to receive an Award Letter, or 2) if you have received your Award Letter (but for some reason change your Educational Goal to an "ineligible" goal), you will not be eligible for any future financial aid disbursements.
- All financial aid applicants are required to update their Student Authorization status least once. You can update your Student Authorization status (regarding your authorization to allow LAMC and the LACCD to deduct non-enrollment fees from your financial aid disbursements) ONLINE. Need help in completing the process? Check out our online tutorial here! If you do not update your Student Authorization status, this can delay the processing of your financial aid disbursements if you owe any fees (other than enrollment and health fees, which can be automatically deducted from financial aid disbursements).
- The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), which includes Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC), has adopted an updated Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) policy which affects all students applying for federal and state financial aid. The new policy is available in a brochure (available at the Financial Aid Office), online (look for the link to Satisfactory Academic Progress on the left side of this webpage) and as a downloaded brochure, available here (note: this is a BIG file: 4+ MB). The new policy goes into effect with our Summer 2011 semester.
What's different from our "old" policy? A lot of things, including: 1) We will review ALL students' academic progress at the end of each semester (Summer, Fall/Winter, and Spring); 2) Students whose cumulative GPA falls below 2.0 and/or their passed percentage of classes falls below 67% will be placed on WARNING for one semester, after which if they continue to not meet cumulative GPA and passing percentage requirements they will be disqualified. Under our old policy, students were generally reviewed only once per year (usually at the end of the Spring semester). For much more detail, please read through our SAP policy. AND, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ASK US!!! - Need help completing your FAFSA? Reserve a seat at one of our FAFSA workshops! We hold these workshops every month. You'll need to come prepared (tax returns, income income information, asset information, and the ability to work a computer and Internet Explorer), but we can answer your questions and guide you through the hardest parts of the FAFSA form. Stop by the Financial Aid Office to reserve your seat!
- Students with OneAccounts and the myLACCDcard: Looking for the Higher One ATMs? One is located in the Campus Center near the arcade games! The other ATM is located in the lobby between the campus Bookstore ("Eagle's Landing) and the Culinary Arts cafeteria (in the new Culinary Arts Institute building). Remember: There are NO FEES charged to use your myLACCDcard at the Higher One ATM. Also, your myLACCDcard can be used at any merchant that accepts MasterCard (just remember to select "credit" so you can SWIPE AND SIGN and avoid the $0.50 fee for making purchases when you enter your PIN).
- Want to know more about Higher One and the myLACCDcard program? Check out the Higher One series of Orientation videos at YouTube!
- Does this look familiar?
If you applied for financial aid through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and have an LACCD student ID number, you should receive a bright green envelope that looks like the one above. Inside you will find your myLACCDcard, which serves as your key to selecting your financial aid disbursement preference at LA Mission College and throughout all the other LACCD colleges.
If you receive your myLACCDcard, visit www.myLACCDcard.com and enter your card number to get started. Have questions? FIRST: READ ALL of the information in your envelope. SECOND: check out www.myLACCDcard.com, where you can find out about the card, the process, and what Higher One and LAMC are offering for our students. THEN, if you still have questions or need help, stop by the Financial Aid Office or give us a call.
Disclaimer: Some websites to which the Financial Aid Office provide links are for the convenience of users and are not managed or maintained by Los Angeles Mission College. The College and the Financial Aid Office do not review, control, or take responsibility for the contents of those sites.