<p>True 3bm, but the poster said that she (he?) hadn't even heard of an award. I'm sorry but that's odd at any school.</p>
<p>I suspect the OP may have just submitted FAFSA - that was kind of the impression I got anyway.</p>
<p>I work in a title I high school where the OP's situation is not unusual (probably more of the norm at many low income high schools) and happens like clock work each year at the end of August, beginning of September.</p>
<p>Right now CUNY is doing on the spot admissions. This means a student can literally walk into any CUNY with his/her diploma and an sealed official transcript, SAT socres (if applying to a 4 year CUNY). If they meet the 4 year school's admission's requirement, the simply pay the application fee and be registered on the spot. </p>
<p>Every NYC resident with a high school diploma and an official transcript, who pays the fee can be accepted at any CUNY CC.</p>
<p>The student will take placement test if needed, and will see the FA counselor. If the student has filed a FAFSA, and listed the CUNY as one of the schools to which to send a report, that FA office can pull up the SAR and calculate an estimated PELL & TAP award based on the information. </p>
<p>A student can also bring his/her parent along with their Financial information (copies of signed tax forms, W-2, SS award letters, PA letters, etc) and the Financial aid office will help them with the filing .</p>
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the simply pay the application fee and be registered on the spot. </p>
<p>Every NYC resident with a high school diploma and an official transcript, who pays the fee can be accepted at any CUNY CC.
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<p>That's what my daughter did. She received a notice saying that if her accounts weren't settled by such date, her registration would be cancelled. I could scan it to show you. This is the policy. You've got to have the account settled or you can not attend class. Every possibility of having that done is made available to students, but it has to be done. Even a student with a zero balance must do what is called "CONFIRM ZERO BALANCE" which is a matter of pressing a button on a computer in the FA office, in the computer lab, in the library, at home; or calling a phone number or filling out a form. There is no getting around clearing out those balances, although that doesn't mean writing a check. However, CUNY says very clearly that the student is responsible. Period.</p>
<p>But it does vary by school. My daughter can be in class 4 weeks before we have to pay. They do not even send the bill till 2 weeks after class starts.</p>
<p>Here is te CUNY policy:</p>
<p>Due to the increasing demand for courses, a new registration policy has been implemented. Please become familiar with this policy to ensure your registration will not be cancelled . </p>
<p>• Bills must be paid by the due date . </p>
<p>• Financial aid recipients with a ZERO (-0-) BALANCE due are REQUIRED to notify the Bursar of their intention to attend classes at CSI by CONFIRMING THEIR BILL. </p>
<p>3 ways to confirm a ZERO (-0-) BALANCE bill: </p>
<p>•Web-EASIEST WAY: Confirm Zero Balance<br>
• Mail-EASY WAY: </p>
<p>Sign bottom of bill, detach, mail to Bursar. Must be received by the bill due date. </p>
<p>• In Person-TIME-CONSUMING: Confirm at Bursar's Office, Building 2A, Room 105 </p>
<p>• Anyone not paying their bill or confirming their intention to attend classes by the due date will be DEREGISTERED. </p>
<p>• Once DEREGISTERED you will be assigned a new date and time to re-register. This new date will reflect a one and a half day suspension, from the Registration System, delaying your ability to re-register.</p>
<p>• IF DEREGISTERED, YOUR ORIGINAL SCHEDULE AND COURSES MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE. </p>
<p>• RE-REGISTRATION IS ON A SPACE-AVAILABLE BASIS ONLY. </p>
<p>• Once classes begin, you may not be able to re-register.</p>
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But it does vary by school. My daughter can be in class 4 weeks before we have to pay. They do not even send the bill till 2 weeks after class starts.
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<p>But did you receive an award letter at any point? That's what strikes me as so odd. No communication.</p>
<p>zm,</p>
<p>I totally understand where you are coming from and beleive what you are saying. As a matter of protocol, students will recieve letters stating their account must be settled by a certain date or their registration will be dropped. I think that your situation is going to be different, because your family will be full freight paying for CUNY for your D and the school must receive your check, of she must file the FAFSA if she is taking out a stafford loan (where the loan check will go to the school and they will cut her a check for any leftover monies).</p>
<p>However, I also know for a fact a using OP as an example: if he has filed the FAFSA and received a "0" EFC and CUNY has access to the information, they know that he will be receiving federal aid and will be eligible for state aid (TAP), where one or both will be enough to cover the tuition (whether it is in the form of grants or loans). </p>
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Financial aid recipients with a ZERO (-0-) BALANCE due are REQUIRED to notify the Bursar of their intention to attend classes at CSI by CONFIRMING THEIR BILL.
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<p>There is some latitude for low income students who CUNY knows are going to be receiving federal/state aid, provided that they have filed their FA paperwork. The student will get a bill with "0" because anticipated credits; whether in the form of TAP, PELL or stafford loans are going to be posted to the student's account.</p>
<p>The school knows that they will be getting $$ on behalf of this student from the state or federal government. If he has not done so, they will will remind him that he must go <a href="https://www.tapweb.org/totw/%5B/url%5D">https://www.tapweb.org/totw/</a> , set up a username and a password so that his FAFSA information can be pulled into the states system, so that he can get a TAP award.</p>
<p>Even a student who has filed late- can bring their SAR, and the printout of their filing for TAP to the FA office and the FA office will make the adjustment to the bill and will give them the anticipated credits.</p>
<p>hope this helps</p>
<p>Just saw this last exchange quickly, but Z, I in no way meant that as "nasty". The vast majority of schools discussed here on CC do expect bill payment ahead of time, and i think most of us have had that experience. I was saying that there is another, lower than tiered area, where students are often scrambling to get FAFSA in, award letters straightend out, bill payment schedules set, etc, in the weeks before and after classes started.</p>
<p>It was meant as a point of clarification. I in no way meant it as an aspersion, just a different point because I have heard it said many times that students cannot be registered and enrolled without the bill paid.</p>
<p>I'm truly sorry you read my post that way, and apologize for the lack of clarity.</p>
<p>(and point of fact--I am not a moderator of this particular forum, not that that should matter. I truly do aspire not to be rude anywhere.)</p>
<p>Sybbie, I don't think that's true that they give latitude. Or perhaps we're posting at cross purposes. I'm not talking about money here, but the physical action of confirming that zero balance in some way by the student. The student gets the bill on the spot, with TAP and Pell factored in. It tells the student that he/she has X classes and doesn't have to pay any money. The student has to then physically, affirmatively accept that. The schools don't always remind the kid to fill out TAP and FAFSA forms, they do it with them, again, on the spot. The point being that the school takes care of everything and the student has to say yes. If the student doesn't say yes, they really do unregister. With good reason.</p>
<p>I think maybe we are posting at cross posting as if I am understanding correctly, your post is </p>
<p>what happens if a student does receive FA and fails to go through the process of accepting the award (by confirming the bill with a "0" balance). You wrote that according to CSI, the student will be dropped if they don't confirm the FA.</p>
<p>I was answering the question from this perspective:</p>
<p>I filed my Friday (received my SAR today), I am going to my local CUNY CC (BMCC) with my diploma, my Official transcript, my SAR with my 0 EFC (and my parents tax forms) along with my application fee. </p>
<p>I get admitted to BMCC, I take my placement test (if I have a 75 on the english and the math regents I am exempt from remedial classes). I see a counselor and register for classes.</p>
<p>I go to see my trusty FA person with my SAR, my tax forms and they help me to fill out the rest of my FA (including tapontheweb). </p>
<p>My bill from BMCC wil most likely have a "0" balance becasue the FA office will anticipate credits to offset the cost of tuition, based on what they would expect my FA award to be. Yes, I have to responsibility to let the school know that I am accepting this award and to attend classes.</p>
<p>Right Sybbie. All I'm saying is that the student is notified of the zero balance and they have to accept it. If they don't accept that zero balance (which means accepting financial aid), then they are de-registered. Not that they have to pay, but that the student has a responsibility in the process. Which is a circular way of saying that even if low-income, it's passing strange that the OP hasn't heard a word.</p>
<p>Swimcat, though, didn't you hear SOMETHING between admission and the start of classes?</p>