The Effect of Financial Aid

on School Performance
By: Treasure Byers, Natalie Lara, and Katherine Romero
Survey Questions

What type of financial

aid do you receive, if
What college are you any?
What is your gender? What year are you in?
in? •None
•Partial
•Full

If so, does your

Does your need for
financial aid require
scholarships/grants
you to have a certain What is your GPA?
motivate you to do
GPA in order to keep
well in school?
it?
 Data and Charts

 We had a total of 93 people take our survey.

 The first graph categorizes each student into

their class year.
 The majority who took our survey were
freshmen.
 Financial Aid by College and Gender

 The first graph shows that

females are more likely to
have financial aid.
 73% of our respondents were
female students.

 The majority of students who

took the survey were enrolled
in the Teachers College or
College of Liberal Arts of
Sciences
 Financial Aid by Class
 Freshmen were more likely to receive full financial aid and partial financial
aid.
 Note: The majority of our survey-takers were freshmen, which impacts the data and explains
why the data favors Freshmen.
 GPA

The following graph shows the

grade point average from our
data.
 Min: 1.9
 Max: 4.25
 Median: 3.44
 Mode: 4
 Average GPA: 3.35
 GPA and Financial Aid

 According to the graph, those

with a higher GPA tend to
have some form of financial
aid.
 We did not specify the
type of scholarships
received (scholarships for
sports, community service,
minority)
 Freshmen are more likely to have a full
financial aid compared to other classes
because its their first year, and a
Conclusions person’s GPA can slowly be impacted.

We generally found that the higher the

GPA one has, the more likely they will
have some kind of financial aid, either
partial or full.

We must expand our research beyond

those who are taking this class for a
more diverse pool of data in order to
reaffirm our conclusions.