<p>I checked the box for financial aid on my all of my common app college applications , but now I don't think I am going to apply for financial aid due to some recent circumstances. </p>
<p>I just received a generic email from Lafayette College, which is a safety for me, saying that if I don't send in all my fin. aid forms, or contact the admissions office saying that I am no longer applying, I will NOT receive an admissions decision. I just emailed them back saying that I'm not, and am waiting to hear back.</p>
<p>Is this standard for all colleges? Should I be emailing every college to tell them I am no longer applying for financial aid? I seriously don't want to mess up my chances on an error so trivial. </p>
<p>Thanks, all advice is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>For those schools that are need aware for admissions, yes, your financial aid forms are needed, as that can make a difference in whether you are accepted or not. With many other schools, even if the school is need blind, they may not move on an application until all the info, including financial aid forms are received. As Admissions makes the decisions, the accepted students names are given to Financail AId and work is started immediately to put together a package. So those that have all their things complete are processed first. There are also schools where it won’t matter at all , but when and if accepted and your name goes on the list to financial aid for your package, and your things are not there, it again is a hold up because many schools like to have the award letter together with the acceptance letter. </p>
<p>With so many applications to process and with the paper notifications as well as the cyber ones, everything has to be in place. You are gumming up the works at some of them. So yes, let them know.</p>