<p>After Early Decision II acceptance, my daughter received an estimated financial aid award. We submitted all the required follow-up documents (tax returns, etc) Does anyone know when the final awards are coming out?</p>
<p>This should be a done deal! Your daughter has to go on GWEB and sign-in. Then you go to the financial aid menu to check your award. She has to accept each FA offer for it to be complete. She should also check under the “eligibilty” section to make sure all the FA forms have been recieved.</p>
<p>She should by now have her GWID # and PW - she’ll need these to sign on to GWEB.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. If not, call FA directly.</p>
<p>CJ</p>
<p>in the “Accept Award Offer” tab, my D’s still say “Web Accept” under the “Status” column and there is nothing listed under the “Accept Award” column.</p>
<p>is that normal?</p>
<p>have ya’ll already done the “entrance interview” requirement for first time borrowers? is there a deadline for that? i’ve been waiting to receive information on when the take-out-the-loans process is supposed to begin.
any info woudl be appreciated!</p>
<p>1sttimemom - That’s what ours says also - Web Accept means you accepted the awards on the Web. I think that’s all we can do at this point.</p>
<p>Once the “Entrance Interview” commment comes up - you can do it anytime. It takes about a month to show up on GW’s site as completed. The student is suppose to do the entrance interview for the Staffords. There is no parent requirement for loan counseling for Parent PLUS loans.</p>
<p>Let me know if you hear otherwise.</p>
<p>CJ</p>
<p>Thanks CJ. </p>
<p>i feel like i’m waiting around for a financial starting gun of some kind - someone to say - “go” at which point i’ll…
… have D complete the “first time borrowers entrance interview” for the Staffords/Perkins.
… apply to an alternative lender for the rest of the money. </p>
<p>(i <em>think</em> i’ve decided to do an alternative loan rather than a PLUS… although it makes me plenty nervous… i like the idea of the PLUS loan being more automatic as far as getting the money into the account goes, ya know?)</p>
<p>i’m just not sure when exactly all of that is supposed to happen.</p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>1sttimemom - the GW FA Website says parents should be notified in “June” about PPLUS Loans. You should look at the section for new undergraduates on loans - that’s where i got the info. Not sure about the Alternative Loans.</p>
<p>CJ</p>