<p>I have an EFC of 0 and received $2,775 for the Fall Semester and $2,775 for the Spring Semester. This is the maximum $5,550 award. However, I was told and am under the impression that I should still be receiving a Summer Pell Grant. Is this correct? If so, how much should I expect to receive based on the above information? I am currently enrolled in 12 summer credits at Rutgers University.</p>
<p>Please note: I completed all the paperwork for this a while ago. Financial Aid told me that they expect me to receive the grant. However, the money still hasn’t posted to my student account. I called them this morning and they told me they would look into it and give me a call back.</p>
<p>Rutgers includes the summer term as part of the previous academic year (2010-11 in this case), so the Pell award you could receive for summer has nothing to do with your $5500 Pell grant for 2011-12.</p>
<p>The summer Pell for this summer would be granted based on the information on your 2010-11 FAFSA. It should probably be about what you received for each term in during the past year.</p>
<p>My daughter got a summer Pell this year, and it was roughly the same amount she received per quarter last year.</p>
<p>Hers did not (for some reason) post to her account either. I had to call and they did something that fixed the problem… it was some small glitch that prevented it from paying out. Not saying that’s the case for you… just that we too only got it resolved last week.</p>
<p>Just FYI, as I understand it, there will not be additional summer Pell grants next year – that is, once you are granted your full amount for 2011-12 there will not be additional money for summer term.</p>
<p>So if I received $2,775 and $2,775 during the 2010-2011 semesters I should receive something close to that for this summer? </p>
<p>Can anyone confirm this?</p>
<p>I’m starting to worry because the financial aid woman hasn’t called me back like she said she would.</p>
<p>Anybody? Sorry I’m just freaking out.</p>
<p>Based on the info provided, you would be eligible for $2775 Pell for summer IF the number of credits you EARNED in the fall + the number of credits you EARNED in the spring + the number of credits you are enrolled in for summer is equal to at least one more than the number of credits in your school’s financial aid award year. If you didn’t drop & if you passed your classes, you are most likely eligible for the Pell. </p>
<p>Some students don’t meet the progression requirement, though. For example, let’s say you took 12 credits in the fall but dropped 6 & passed 6. In spring, you took 12 credits but dropped 3 and failed 3. You earned 6 + 6=12 credits. If you are currently enrolled in 12, you would have 12+12=24. If your school defines a financial aid award year as 24 credits, you would need 24+1=25 credits in order to receive any portion of second Pell. Since the summer Pell is all second Pell, you would not receive any Pell in summer.</p>
<p>If you are okay with progression, you should be eligible for the Pell.</p>
<p>I took 18 credits in fall and earned all 18. I took 15 credits in the spring and earned all 15. I’m enrolled in 12 for the summer and have successfully completed 6 of them. I’m in the process of doing the other 6 now.</p>
<p>I haven’t failed or withdrew from any of them.</p>
<p>Based on this, you think I should receive $2,775 for the summer? I really hope that’s true!</p>
<p>Sounds like it. You are at the same school where you earned the fall/spring credits. right? They may wait to pay summer Pell until after the census date passes. Census date is different than the drop/add date, and it can be confusing for summer because there are often 2 or 3 different modules within a single term & only one census date can be used for Pell.</p>
<p>I have always been told by my financial aid adviser that there was no Pell in the summer, am I being lied to?</p>
<p>Only for this summer (2011) and last summer (2010). It was added to help students get through school more quickly since it’s not easy for most students to do so in 4 or even 5 years. So the funding for it was increased. However, in light of the increasing federal deficit it has since been killed off. It came and went so quickly that most people don’t know about it.</p>
<p>It is a bit misleading to say that there is no summer Pell … there has always been summer Pell for some students. All Pell eligible students are eligible to receive a full 100% of their scheduled Pell award during the award year. Let’s say you are eligible for $4000 for the year, and you don’t attend full time in the fall … you take only 11 credits. You will receive 75% of your semester award because at 9-11 credits Pell pays three-quarters … so you will have received 37.5000% of your full scheduled award, or $4000*0.37500=$1500. You have 100%-37.5%=62.5% of your Pell remaining for the year. You can’t receive more than 50% in a semester, so even if you take a full course load (12 credits or more) in the spring, you will only receive the 50%, or $2000. You will still have 100%-37.5%-50%=12.500% remaining. You can receive that $500 in the summer. However, if you had taken at least 12 credits each semester, you would have used 50%+50%=100% of your Pell award in fall & spring and would not have any Pell remaining to be used in the summer.</p>
<p>The past two years, students were able to receive a second scheduled award - or “up to” 200% of their Pell award, during a given year. For many students, that meant that they could get up to 50% Pell in the summer. There were some amazingly confusing rules attached to the second Pell award, though, which related to number of credits & to progression (earned credits). Some students were not eligible to receive any portion of their second Pell. Congress greatly underestimated the amount of Pell that would be paid out for second Pell grants. They stopped the second Pell awards effective 11-12 award year.</p>