Hello! So I’m a little shocked after looking at my financial aid package. So I applied for financial aid in Mid October (so … really early) and I have had siblings apply to the same school with higher efc’s in early march(so really late) and they typically earned about 13-16 k in grants. However, when I applied I received, only 5.5k in aid in loans, despite having a lower efc and applying extremely early. You think with an efc of 5k and a coa of 30k, I would qualify for a work study or something.
So I sent an email to the school talking about my problem and they said they ran out of financial aid for freshman. But that didn’t make sense to me, because their are kids who still haven’t applied or been admitted to my school yet. They didn’t even ask for my UIN or anything. So I called them and they said that since I revised my Fafsa in November I needed to proceed to fafsa verification before they could give me an award. Now I am confused – why does their email group say something different then their phone service? Should I ask them to appeal my offer over email again? Should I go talk to them in person? I already planned on a visit. How do I ask to have my financial aid package rechecked.
and since I had not W2 forms for 2015 I went though a very long fafsa verification process. I have recently completed the process and I