<p>okay so heres the story:
on sunday of midnight, i found out that i needed to turn in my verification worksheet in order to be considered for financial aid. The deadline was may 1st. its may 10th today and it's already been a week since the due date. i called their financial aid office asking what i should do. They told me to fax in all my required info anyway, but i would need to send a letter of appeals on why i passed the deadline to the director of financial aid.</p>
<p>heres the problem:
i dont have a good excuse! i thought all i needed to do was to send in my SIR before may 1st, which i did weeks before the due date. Now i finally thought i could relax, and this happens. i come from a single mother family and so, without the aid they originally offered me, i cannot possibly afford to go. what should my excuse be? should i just be completely honest and told them that i f***ed up? that im sorry? and the this will never happen again? but to be honest, being honest has never gotten me anywhere, and i dont want to be not going just because of this last minute mistake....</p>
<p>Are you talking about the Dependent Student Verification Worksheet for IDOC? If so, then do pretty much what the FA office told you: fax in your papers with a polite, brief letter explaining clearly why your worksheet is late. The excuse doesn’t have to be lofty, trust me. I imagine this works:</p>
<p>“I was unaware of this required document when I mailed in my packet and was never notified of its absence by the financial aid institution. However, I recently discovered that I had omitted this worksheet so I have promptly faxed it in. Please excuse my mistake and thank you for understanding.” </p>
<p>I’m not saying “They won’t really care” but… they kinda don’t. IDOC is not that strict. In fact, most FA offices don’t really nitpick. My friend turned in a bunch of things late (as in, last Friday for a May 1 deadline) and Berkeley’s FA office accepted everything. I imagine SD is no different. </p>
<p>Processing all those papers takes their focus away from wrist-slapping latecomers and they realize that things get lost in the mail. No one is sitting there scrutinizing postmark dates and depriving single-mother families of $$$ just because one worksheet was missing. Many people don’t get everything in on time. Legitimate reasons or not, no one gets gypped. I know they stress deadlines like it’s big business, but they will not revoke your aid and dismiss all you and your mother’s hard work over such a comparatively small matter.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, if that’s not the case, then… bummer.</p>
<p>^
Totally agree. I was super late on my GPA verification sheet and I told them I couldn’t get cal grant as a result (had to tell them to switch my cal grant status from unconfirmed to denied ). </p>
<p>To my utter surprise UCSD did the opposite of punishing me by reducing my aid, they covered all the money CAL grant could not give me.</p>
<p>same situation well kinda. I totally didn’t know we had a verify our financial aid til basically the night before May 1st. And the morning of May 1st I faxed those papers! Does anybody know if they contact you when receiving the verification form or do you have to contact them?</p>
<p>Did you get the email they sent out? Some people got theirs really late, some not at all… that’s a valid excuse. I mean did you know you had to send it and were lazy or straight up didn’t know?</p>
<p>I mailed my verification worksheet and all the other stuff in a while back but they havent contacted me or anything. Were they supposed to email you or update Tritonlink or something?</p>
<p>no i didnt know about it, i just looked through the ucsd site one day just checking things out and i saw the deadline, but they never emailed me.</p>
<p>Can someone please explain what this verification worksheet is and who needs to fill it out? I was notified of nothing via email and it is not on my checklist on my UCSD account</p>
<p>if its not on ur financial aid checklist you’re probably fine. I found out about this worksheet when i was on my preliminary award notice on “MyApplications” (the part of the site where it gives you an estimate number of how much aid you will receive) on the top right of the site it said it says “application completion deadline” and it asks me for the fill out of the worksheet and a copy of my parents tax return for 2009.</p>
<p>The verification is either asked to random students or to students receiving a lot of financial aid. For me, the aid that they offered is going to cover all the tuition as well as living expences and book fees. So basically, they’re just checking if i am really in need of financial aid or if i am lying about my financial status to get free money.</p>
<p>I did some research over the ucsd site, and it looks like their main method of communication to each student is via UCSD e-mail account , or their seperate e-mail (i.e Gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.). The problem is, new students are not yet given the UCSD e-mail, so because they did not have any way to contact us, many of us didnt know about it.</p>
<p>I thought some people would like to know what ive been doing to get out this mess sooo here it goes.</p>
<p>I sent in an e-mail to the UCSD financial aid office to ask if what I should do and they replied 3 days after telling me the same thing: send the documents, submit a letter asking for an appeal.</p>
<p>“Your documents were due by May 1st and are now considered late. Late applicants will not be awarded UCSD Grant, UCSD Fee Grant, Blue and Gold Grant, SEOG, Perkins Loan, University Loan or Federal Work-Study. In order to be considered for these funds, you have to submit an appeal by following the steps below:
You may submit a separate email titled Late Funding Appeal to this email box explaining why you missed the deadline. Your Late Funding Appeal will be submitted for review. Our managers will begin reviewing the appeals in June or July. Financial aid for all on-time students are packaged before students with appeals are approved or denied. You will be notified by email once a decision has been made.”</p>
<p>The problem im having now is that the person that replied to me wrote that i must send in an e-mail in order to appeal; thats the only thing i didnt do. i sent my appeals through a fax copy and the original was sent via postal mail… so does this mean i have to send in ANOTHER email??? </p>
<p>no its not, i followed the instructions that they gave me. throughout the UCSD website it implied that all additional documents that are requested will be notified through e-mail. It even states in bold letters saying that “so check your e-mail often”. They never sent me an e-mail.</p>
<p>i understand that you did not received an email, but as a UCSD student, you shouldve been more responsible (i.e. constantly checking your financial aid status (esp at this time of year), meaning you shouldve click on the Financial Aid Tool thing on Tritonlink a few times a week)</p>
<p>yea, well i cant pout about the things that already happened. I did the best to try to turn things around, so now im just praying that my appeal will get approved.</p>
<p>-update
so the financial aid office replied to my e-mail saying:
“We offer various methods to send in documents and requests. I see a note that states your appeal was received via fax on 5/14. There is nothing else you need to do. Thanks”</p>