<p>I already received my scholarship because I applied Early and was accepted into Honors, but when is federal financial aid released and where? When I look on the website, it says on VIP but we don't use VIP anymore. Does anyone know when it will be released and where?</p>
<p>Final packages are sent out in letters in March. Not sure when they show up online. Note that for some reason, if you are NMF notification of Leiber comes separately - ours was about a week later than other letter.</p>
<p>aristrutz523: When did you receive your scholarship info?</p>
<p>Back in early January, the same day I received my Honors College Acceptance. I got a letter saying I would receive at LEAST in state tuition and 2k on top of that.</p>
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<p>Only scholarships are sent out in March. Other financial aid (LIFE, Pell Grants, Loans, etc) don’t show up usually until April. The FAFSA isn’t due until April 1.</p>
<p>even if you applied early and submitted early? why so late?</p>
<p>^^My GUESS is that they can’t give out merit until they see entire pool of applicants and RD aren’t finished until March. So if scholarship ABCD is given to kids in top 15% they don’t know what that score/GPA is to that point and I assume the numbers for at least some of these scholarships change with the quality of applicant class, since cutoffs change from year to year (and you only see that in report for prior year). I guess that’s why acceptances say you’ll get “at least” ABCD scholarship.</p>
<p>What you are saying makes sense but every other school I have applied to has told me what my merit aid will be and most of them have early and regular decision.</p>
<p>I can see the frustration. It didn’t really matter for us since D had to wait until April 1 to even hear from some schools about acceptance and some even later for money.</p>
<p>I already received sc merit aid for early, but apparently all schools send out federal need based in March.</p>