<p>First of all, I transferred to UT last year and this will be my second year at UT. Last year I received about $10,000 for the whole year in grants with an EFC of 3400 (applied on March 30th last year). </p>
<p>This year my financial aid package just arrived and I didn't receive too much grants. I am only getting $6000 for the year. My EFC is 300. I applied on March 29th for financial aid. They didn't even give me Texas Public Education Grant. They also didn't give me partial tuition grant and university tuition grant this year. I received all of these last year. Can I call financial aid and ask? Would they give me more grants or is it not possible?</p>
<p>Also they also gave me $1800 in grants for this summer. But I am not doing summer school so is there any way that money can be transferred over to 2010-2011 school year?</p>
<p>And another thing, I am in Liberal Arts right now and will be transferring into McCombs this year so will my financial aid change when I switch my major to McCombs?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>$10,000 is A LOT for someone with an EFC 3400. Most people that I know with an EFC of 0 only got around $6,400 for a year. Anyways, have you been under review by the OSFS? If so, they may have gone through your FFSA more closely and awarded you less because of what you got last year.</p>
<p>UT is also cutting its budget and there are certain grants which will not be awarded or if they are, in a much smaller amount. Not sure about this but that’s what I’ve been hearing. If your transfer to McCombs it will not affect your financial aid but may affect scholarships.</p>
<p>Nooooo!! I just realized that I didn’t accept my financial aid before the deadline. Do you think I’ll have any trouble getting it reinstated?</p>
<p>@Sprintuser </p>
<p>possibly, just tell them you lost track of time </p>
<p>@Shane </p>
<p>it wont hurt to call and ask</p>
<p>@ sprintuser, I was not aware of any “deadline” to accept financial aid. As far as I know you keep the money and it can be used for later semesters/summer school.</p>
<p>I think there was a certain date that you were required to choose which financial aid you wanted. I didn’t even realize that the deadline was this early. It’s telling me to contact them to have it reinstated.</p>
<p>Can we please get back to answering my questions. I would really like to know what my situation is.</p>
<p>^ I answered it right below your questions to the best of my knowledge.</p>