scholarship, housing, pennkey

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>hello everyone! I have a few questions about the upcoming college experience that I’ve been waiting for since ever since. Thanks in advance for your help :)</p>

<li><p>scholarship: they informed me earlier with a prelim financial aid award letter that requires me to submit my tax forms and such in order to finalize the award. So I faxed them all the forms last week and now I’m wondering about when will they finalize the aid? When do financial aid letters come out? Will they send me another letter because I checked My PennPlan using the portal but nothing is really listed there. btw i don’t really get what to use it for still…</p></li>
<li><p>pennKey: exactly how do I get the starting code thing and request pennKey? Will it be sent to me in mail soon or do I have to wait until school year starts?</p></li>
<li><p>Housing: yea, I’m really concerned about this. I’m admitted to SEAS right now but I may change depending how it goes. Is there any restriction or general trend that people of certain majors live in certain dorms? btw, I know my scholarship is covering all housing but how do I pick dorms without guidelines about waht kind of dorms am I allowed to pick? Or should I just wait for them to get me more info about housing grants? </p></li>
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<p>so that was a lot of questions. Thanks again and I wish to see all of you in PENN :)</p>

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<p>Hey, yeah I'm admitted to SEAS as well, and I'm wondering about financial aid/housing too, would be great if someone can help us out :D</p>

<p>so far my financial aids from other colleges doesn't looking so promising, so I'm getting a little worried about paying for college...</p>

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<p>regarding housing and pennkey:</p>

<p>pennkey setup code should come in may</p>

<p>and housing-wise, it's all spread out; there are no restrictions or trends as to where you should live for engineering; however, you'll probably want to be in one of the heavily freshman dorms (quad, hill, kings court - english)</p>

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<p>are we suppose to get a physical letter about financial aid or do we do it all online?</p>

<p>also, how do we sign up for Stafford Loans?</p>

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<p>can someone explain a stafford loan? i don't get what it is.</p>

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<p>A stafford loan is a fancy name for a loan from a non-Penn source</p>