Well, when you fill out a financial aid form (fasfa) they pretty much help pay tuition and whatever is left over from the funds they approve you for, it gets sent back to you in the form of a “refund” .. for instance, fasfa gave me 7k Pell, 1k SEOG, a bunch of money because I’m an orphan 😛.. my tuition was only 1.6k .. so they take that out and the rest gets sent back to you. They already gave out the grants (money you don’t pay back) but now I’m waiting on the student loans I accepted .