Accidently Said No for Need-Based Financial Aid

Paying for College
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I applied to SCU Early Action and accidentally checked the box that said no for need-based financial aid on the common application. Is there any way I can change it? Also, I submitted my CSS profile to SCU so will they know that I actually need financial aid even though I checked no on the common app?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Yes. Contact the admissions office and tell them that you made a mistake. Problem solved.</p>

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<p>Will do, but I submitted my application about 18 days ago. Do you think its a little too late?</p>

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<p>Call them…and have them change that little no to a yes.</p>

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<p>And you have to provide any FA info that they want.</p>

<p>as an aside…why do we frequently see kids posting that they “accidentally” put “no” for needing FA? Are these kids assuming that they won’t need FA and putting “no”? And, then after talking to their parents they are finding out that their parents won’t pay the $60k per year? </p>

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<p>That is exactly what happened to me. I assumed that my family was not qualified for FA and said no. Then I found out my parents need it</p>

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<p>Just shaking my head here. Doesn’t anyone talk about these things?</p>

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<p>Needing it and qualifying for it are two very different things. </p>

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<p>You need to let SCU know. Why you did not call them immediately as you filled out the PROFILE and other financial aid stuff, is what puzzles me. You say you sent that info to their financial aid department but as you filled out those onerous forms, it did not occur to you to correct the application that said you did not need fin aid?</p>

<p>I have no idea how SCU works in this regard, but with a lot of school, the admissions dept sends a list of accepted students who checked off the fin aid box to the financial aid dept so that Fin Aid does not have to put together packages for every single kid who applies for admissions; just the accepted ones. If a student doesn’t check that little box, his/her name does not go to financial aid, and no package is put together. That is what happens. Fin aid has to rely on admissions to tell them who gets package work ups. Most schools have separate admissions and fin aid depts and they operate by Admissions letting Fin aid know who is accepted and needs a work up. </p>