Returning student financial aid

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<p>Dear returning students/parents,</p>

<p>Please remember that until you receive an email from USC financial aid saying your 2010-2011 package is ready to be viewed, your package will not have been completed. Returning student packages are usually ready in MID-June.</p>

<p>The site has updated for 2010-2011 but your aid has not yet posted. Please do not start panicked threads saying that "USC has screwed" you. alamedaughter's page, for example, currently only shows her two USC scholarships - there are at least ten other items - including Federal loans - yet to be posted. Be patient and don't panic. Please.</p>

<p>WAIT FOR AN EMAIL TELLING YOU YOUR AID HAS POSTED.</p>

<p>Thank you,</p>

<p>alamemom</p>

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<p>Remember, if at least an unsubsidized Stafford loan does not yet appear - EVERYONE who submits a FAFSA gets an unsubs Stafford - your package is not complete.</p>

<p>Again, please be patient. This happened to several freshman applicants. Some of them posted very insulting things about USC financial aid and were very embarrased a few days later when their aid posted - some of them receiving aid in excess of $50,000.</p>

<p>Please</p>

<p>be</p>

<p>patient.</p>

<p>Thank you.</p>

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<p>Yep, got my email this morning. My account only lists two things right now, and no federal loans yet. I expect it to be completed within… two weeks maybe?</p>

<p>Also, if anyone doesn’t want their financial aid money… I’ll take it.</p>

<p>In other news, estimated cost of attendance went down? About $600. Interesting.</p>

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<p>Yes, last year returning packages posted were done by about mid June.</p>

<p>I bet things will go nuts in the financial aid office today if emails went out for incomplete packages. At least all of you on College Confidential will know not to panic!</p>

<p>Thanks, Hawkwings - hopefully your calmness will spread to others :)</p>

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<p>Oh, I’m an old pro at waiting for financial aid to post ;)</p>

<p>Meanwhile, I’ll be crunching numbers and comparing to last year, as I suspect you are as well.</p>

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<p>Indeed… it can never hurt to ask for a tiny bit more than offered ;)</p>

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<p>I got the e-mail saying that my financial aid was posted, but then got another saying they need more forms. My package is obviously incomplete with only one small scholarship in there and no federal loans!</p>

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<p>beeish posted on the Fin Aid FAQ that she called the financial aid office and they confirmed that the packages are not complete:

Thanks beeish!</p>

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<p>@Hawkwings: where does it say “estimated cost of attendance went down? About $600.”
in my package that came out today it states coa at 55.5k, an increase of slightly under 2k.</p>

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<p>My estimated coa for last year was about 56k. It might have been because I took 19 credits one semester though.</p>

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<p>Hawkwings, if you are going over 18 units Fall 2010 or Spring 2011, you might be eligible for the new [USC</a> Academic Achievement Award | Undergraduate Education](<a href=“http://undergrad.usc.edu/renaissance/achievement_award.html]USC”>http://undergrad.usc.edu/renaissance/achievement_award.html) . It lets any student (well, any student with a GPA of 3.75 or more…) take extra units without extra charge.</p>

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<p>Nah, that doesn’t apply for me since all 19 of my units were for one major. I’d be crazy to double-major with my workload…</p>

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<p>

alamemom, I want to know if this statement applies to all continuing students. Thanks.</p>

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<p>^ Yes, all students who submitted the FAFSA will get at least an unsubsidized Stafford loan.</p>

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<p>We just received our 2010-11 financial aid package. It was very close to last years. We are pleased.</p>

<p>I hope this reassures everyone who is still waiting, that theirs will be fine too. </p>

<p>Good luck everybody.</p>

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<p>My sons financial aid package was also almost identical to last year. NMF scholarship is not yet posted yet but that one always posts late for some reason</p>

<p>USC has been pretty consistent all 4 years. Last years adjustment was a bit tough but overall I can’t complain about how they manage their aid each year</p>

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<p>Any updates?</p>

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<p>My financial aid package was about the same, if not better than last year’s. Thank you, USC! Don’t lose faith, guys.</p>

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<p>Has anyone else still not gotten their financial aid package? I still haven’t gotten mine.</p>

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<p>Nothing for lamedaughter yet.</p>