<p>Great news!</p>
<p>The FA office people could never answer my question about reinstating the grants and reducing the loans instead. But, I was finally able to get through to a FA advisor who could make more decisions at their discretion. She put the grants back, so now I’m golden. She reduced the unsubsidized loans by only three figures, and added in subsidized loans in the amount she reduced from the unsub. Not sure why, but awesome!</p>
<p>But, I need to call the FA office again. At the moment, my award overview does not include Bright Futures since they are processing stuff. So I’m worried that once it goes back on my account, an overaward alert will signal the FA office to take away the grants again. To avoid that, I’m going to ask if I should accept some of the loans. That way, if FA needs to be reduced when BF is added to my account, the reduction will come out of the accepted loans.</p>