{"id":14,"date":"2011-07-28T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-10-17T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T17:55:23","slug":"types-of-aid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/how-aid-works\/types-of-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholarships, grants, loans, and student employment are all considered financial aid. Because loans must be repaid and student employment must be earned, they are sometimes referred to as \u201cself-help.&#8221; Because they do not, scholarships and grants are sometimes referred to as \u201cgift aid\u201d or \u201cfree money.&#8221; Typically, applicants are offered a financial aid package consisting of a combination of awards from various types of aid programs.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"linklist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/how-aid-works\/types-of-aid\/scholarships-grants\/\"><strong>Scholarships &amp; Grants<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Loans &amp; Financing Options\" href=\"\/finaid\/how-aid-works\/types-of-aid\/loans\/\"><strong>Loans &amp; Financing Options<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/how-aid-works\/types-of-aid\/student-employment\/\"><strong>Student E<\/strong><strong>mployment<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/how-aid-works\/types-of-aid\/tuition-benefits\/\"><strong>Tuition Benefits<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Veterans Benefits &amp; Services\" href=\"\/finaid\/types-of-aid\/veterans-services\/\"><strong>Veterans Benefits &amp; Services<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholarships, grants, loans, and student employment are all considered financial aid. Because loans must be repaid and student employment must be earned, they are sometimes referred to as \u201cself-help.&#8221; Because they do not, scholarships and grants are sometimes referred to as \u201cgift aid\u201d or \u201cfree money.&#8221; Typically, applicants are offered a financial aid package consisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"parent":10073,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/11198"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}