A citizen or permanent resident of the United States,
A registered student of Eastern Illinois University
And meet one or more of the following requirements
First-generation college student (if you lived with both parents/legal guardians, and neither graduated from a four-year college or university OR if you lived with only one parent and that parent did not graduate from a four-year college or university)
Low-Income (means an individual whose family's taxable income for the preceding year did not exceed 150 percent of the poverty level amount established by the Census Bureau.)
Students with documented physical or learning disabilities.