<p>if you start fall semester at one school is it possible to transfer to another school for the spring semester? how does this affect financial aid, does it all transfer the same?</p>
<p>Your financial aid from one school does NOT transfer to the other. You need to apply for financial aid to your transfer school. Submit the FAFSA (and whatever else they require). My understanding is that any federally funded aid for which you qualify (entitlements only) like a Pell Grant or Stafford loan will be awarded to you at your new school. If you receive limited funding awards (e.g. Perkins loans or Seog) you might be out of luck on those if you transfer as your new school will likely have awarded all the money for those. Also, some schools do not award institutional money (their own money) to spring transfer students. Some schools don’t award institutional money to transfer students at all. </p>
<p>But if you are eligible for a Pell grant…you should get the second semester’s amount at your new school. Ditto the remainder of your Stafford loan.</p>
<p>when i filled out the fafsa i had it sent to both schools, the one im currently at and the one im hoping to transfer to.
the thing is i dont think i have enough time now to complete the transfer to the 2nd school. i havent even finished admission to the 2nd school.</p>
<p>When you accepted your financial aid award, it was for the school you
ARE attending, not the other one. So…you need to contact that new school if you plan to transfer there so they can process your financial aid.</p>
<p>When is the deadline for second semester transfers students? It probably has not yet passed.</p>
<p>You may not get as much aid at the school that you’re transferring to.</p>
<p>Before you transfer, be sure that you KNOW what you’re getting. You may have to stay at school #1 until the second year.</p>
<p>I transfered during the spring semester. On fafsa, I put a couple of schools on it since there’s no harm. And when I finally applied to the school I transferred to, the lady said on the phone said that they’ve received my fafsa a year ago, a semester before I even applied to the school. So when I got accepted, they said since they have my fafsa on file, everything would process faster, that they don’t need to wait for me to add the school and stuff.</p>
<p>So it’s good you’ve put the school on there already even though you haven’t finished your application. They’ll send you a financial aid awards package when they’ve receive your fafsa whether you get accepted or not. After reviewing the aid and you’d still like to go but money is a crunch, you can ask them to put you on the delayed entry list(I don’t remember what’s it called so I just made it up) where they hold a spot for you in the Fall. Don’t let your grades drop though.</p>
<p>I’ve applied to about a dozen school in a dozen different states, half public, half private and I just don’t follow through with proof on my application to the one that gives me bad awards packages. That saved me over $500 in application fees, SAT scores, and transcript copies. I don’t know if it counts as cheating the system so I don’t suggest what I did. All the school sent me a letter a month later saying that they’ve cancelled my application because I didn’t follow through with the scores/transcripts and I was never charged a fee for those sent applications. And the reason why I didn’t follow through was because I was already accepted to my first choice so no point in wasting money to find out about the others.</p>