RUMFORD – Parents and students faced with the sometimes daunting task of filling out financial aid forms for college have three opportunities to get help.

Barbara Radmore, coordinator of the MELMAC grant and Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programming program for SAD 43, said students may attend a session on the task at 3 or 5:30 p.m., Friday in the Mountain Valley High School library.

Dori Fellman from the Partnership for Success will go line-by-line through the financial aid forms. Plenty of time will be allowed to ask questions.

“A lot of people don’t believe they qualify,” said Radmore. “But they should fill out the forms because many colleges use them for institutional aid and low-cost parent loans.”

A light supper will be served, and free tickets to attend that night’s boys basketball game against Boothbay Regional High School will be handed out.

If Friday doesn’t work, seniors and parents may attend College Goal Sunday at the Roberts Learning Center at the University of Maine at Farmington at 2 p.m. Sunday, or an ITV session at 2 p.m., Sunday at the Rumford-Mexico University Center on Brown Street in Mexico. Finance Authority of Maine representatives will be available by telephone to answer questions at the Mexico center.

Students who attend one of the sessions will be entered into a drawing for a $500 scholarship.

Radmore said holding the sessions at Mountain Valley High School and at the Rumford-Mexico Center is an effort to draw more people to the financial aid presentations.