I have not received my financial aid from University of Rhode Island or Rhode Island College.
Are you an entering freshman waiting for an award letter? Did you get all your information into them that was required? I don’t know their dates but it seems a bit early to get award letters.
We received merit money with the acceptance letter. We only filed our fafsa last week and have not heard anything but they seem to be very slow in general. We are not expecting aid.
I think most of us still waiting for fin aid offers.
It’s still very early. Schools are still processing thousands of FA awards.
@htouray I was referring to URI specifically. Might take a while for aid packages.
Die you just post about two weeks ago that you just submitted FAFSA? If so, why are you expecting your FA pkg so soon? Do you really think that a school would be able to quickly process everyone’s pkg within two weeks of submission of FAFSA??
When is the FA priority deadline? Our school’s is March 1 so I don’t expect we will hear until maybe April.
Unless you were accepted early decision…your financial aid package will likely not be received until March or early April. Some colleges haven’t even uploaded the FAFSA yet…and haven’t done financial aid packages at all. You don’t need to make a matriculation decision until May 1.
You can relax about this one.
I submitted a fafsa estimate
Well…when will your taxes be completed…and when will you update your FAFSA and link to the IRS data retrieval tool? Get that done.
Maybe the school is going to wait until you give them REAL numbers so that they don’t have to do their job twice.
Did you run any net price calculators or efc estimators to see if your family will qualify for federal or state grants and grants from the schools?
Rhode Island College also requires a Rhode Island College Financial Aid Application. Did you complete and submit that?
You didn’t happen to do the college crusade?
No. I didn’t do college crusade.
Htouray…I think you get the point.
- Get your taxes done and amend your FAFSA to reflect the numbers from your 2014 tax returns.
- Get any other application forms required done as well...if you haven't already done them.
- The reality is...most students have not received their financial aid awards for the 2015-2016 school year.
- If you don't get your taxes done and update the FAFSA to reflect that...any award you do get will only be an estimate anyway. So...do the taxes and update...asap.
Schools may provide an estimated financial aid package before you verify your FAFSA data but it is likely to happen in March or later. Last year my D received an estimated financial aid package in March and it asked for some documents for verification. We submitted those in early to mid April and then we receive the official financial aid after the May 1 decision deadline. Subsequently, they revised it several times over the summer.