Does anyone know when financial aid awards for the EA applicants will be posted?
My financial aid award was posted on Gibson as of 12/23.
@changemaker44 What is Gibson?
@Piper1128 My apologies - wrong school. To answer your question accurately, I haven’t received my FA for SMU yet. Sorry about that.
We are still waiting, DD is EA. I know the apply deadline is Jan15th and I am assuming FA packages will go out soon after. Reason for that assumption is I had to call the FA office early Jan to do an update to my CSS profile and they were saying ‘hurry up and get it in, the awards go out end of this month’.
Anyone receive their financial aid award yet or hear when we will be notified?
Not yet, SMU did update the financial aid page, so we are hopefull we will hear in the next week.
2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR:
Financial Aid awarding cycle for the 2018-2019 academic year is scheduled to begin based on the following schedule. When your financial aid award is ready for you to view/accept, you will be notified by SMU email and through My.SMU.
New incoming & transfer undergraduate student awarding will begin in late January, 2018.
I received my official financial aid package in the mail last week. It included the merit scholarship that I was awarded upon admission in addition to some other information.
Hi @collegiate65 Any email or anything? Were you Early Action?
@AnotherPassword I applied EA and only received an envelope in the mail.
I was told by the financial aid office EA would be notified mid-February to first of March…
Strange. I just called Admissions 2147683417. They asked for student ID and verified they do have all information and they said ‘Should hear by end of week, if not call Admissions Counselor’
Did they say how we will be notified–mail, email, or my.smu portal?
Hi, I was wondering if you have received the portal link, i submitted my application on Jan 15th and have yet received anything from smu.
@AnotherPassword Have you received anything this week? I spoke to the office yesterday and they told me again they are running behind and hope to have information out by the end of February. @lalalander111 I was told it will appear on the my.smu portal first then you will receive something in the mail.
End of February!
Wow.
And they keep sending emails requesting that we make a deposit-at least 3 so far.
I called to ask about that and they said “We send those to everyone, many people don’t need financial aid.”
Her tone was kind of uppity to be honest.
@lalalander111 We were laughing at the multiple requests for a deposit …how about knowing the cost first?
In earlier post I mentioned they said wait and call at end of week which would be today. I called, they said best bet is email so I emailed the Financial Aid Counsellor. We’ll see!
I still have not heard anything. DD did get some invites- destination SMU program and an admitted students reception. I thought UT was going to be last with offers …
@AnotherPassword - Has you D checked her portal? Check under the financial aid section.