<p>eFan's are out for returning students. Did anyone who is eligible receive the SMART grant as part of their FinAid offer? The FinAid office is saying that they'll award them at the END of each quarter, which seems odd.</p>
<p>I was told that if you are eligible that it will be reflected on the eFAN automatically.</p>
<p>Website seems to indicate that:</p>
<p>"The Financial Aid Office will determine which students meet the full set of eligibility criteria and we will revise your electronic Financial Aid Notification (eFAN) once the ACG or SMART Grant eligibility is determined. If eligible, you will receive a revised eFAN before the start of Fall Quarter. For 2006-2007 academic year, ACG and SMART Grants will reduce self-help awards (work-study, Perkins Loan or Federal Stafford Loans)."</p>
<p>But the FinAid office is saying something different. Anyone have it show on the eFAN?</p>
<p>It's not on mine, and I'm a POOR bastard! But I'm still hopeful.</p>
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If eligible, you will receive a revised eFAN before the start of Fall Quarter.
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<p>Further info from the FinAid office:</p>
<p>"The policy has changed for 2007-08. We are working on publishing the eFAN guide for 2007-08. You can access the 2007-08 ePAL guide (provisional award notification) at <a href="http://www.fao.ucla.edu/publications.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.fao.ucla.edu/publications.html</a>. As indicated on page 5:</p>
<p>Academic Competitive Grants (ACG) and Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants — ACG and</p>
<p>SMART are available to undergraduate U.S. Citizens who are Pell Grant eligible and enrolled full time. ACG is awarded</p>
<p>to freshmen and sophomores while SMART is awarded to juniors and seniors. In addition to the eligibility requirements</p>
<p>specified above, ACG and SMART have many other requirements, which prevent the Financial Aid Office from estimating</p>
<p>your eligibility for them at the time your ePAL is generated. Your ACG or SMART eligibility will be determined quarterly after the end of third week of classes, at which point you will receive a revised notification from the Financial Aid Office.</p>
<p>If ACG or SMART is awarded, your eligibility for student loans will decrease.</p>
<p>Most likely, the grants will be added toward the end of each quarter since processing after the end of the 3rd week of classes takes time. The policy changed because of the strict eligibility requirements. For SMART grants, students must maintain a 3.0, enrolled full time, and majoring in physical, life or computer science, engineering, mathematics, technology or a critical foreign language. Often times, student change majors between quarters and drop below full-time, so to monitor that, we must check eligibility every quarter."</p>