Hi there, I am so grateful to have been accepted today and congratulations to those who have as well!
I checked my financial aid summary, which says "Your Provisional Award Letter (PAL) is not available at this time. " It gives various reasons:
"- Your admission status has not been finalized.
You may have saved your application on the processor’s site without submitting it. If you were not presented with a confirmation page at the time you completed your application, it may have been saved and not submitted for processing. Please log back in to the application site and submit it.
The Social Security Number on your FAFSA does not match the SSN on your school record or you did not supply a Social Security Number on your admission application. Please check you FAFSA application to verify that your SSN is correct and make changes, if necessary. If the SSN on the FAFSA is correct, please contact Financial Aid and Scholarships.
There was no Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) calculated at the time you submitted your application. We cannot estimate your eligibility for aid, if the processor did not calculate your EFC. Please go back to your application and submit missing information.
Financial Aid and Scholarships needs additional information from you (income and asset verification or verification of legal guardianship) before we can determine your eligibility. You will be notified, if additional information is necessary."
Yet I’m positive that my information is complete and was sent to UCLA, since other UCs have received and successfully processed my FAFSA.
Does anyone have an idea why this occurred? Should I call the FA office soon, or just wait? Thank you
SAME HERE!!! I also emailed the financial aid office and plan on calling them on Monday. I’m freaking out so much and really hope this doesn’t jeopardize our chances of getting priority aid.
@nick1376@smicwhs98 My classmate received her financial aid package upon acceptance, don’t know why they haven’t processed our’s… If UCLA responds, can you two come back to this thread and tell what they said? I live overseas so I can only call between 1-3am and 5-7am Thank you two
@Merppity Really? My friend and I aren’t even out of state students, we’re US citizens living overseas lol… I though only Berkeley passed that policy, or did all UCs decide to?
We just got a verification letter as well. This might mean that anyone who received this will need to go through verification. We have been having trouble using the DRT so this may be the issues.
According to my FAFSA Student Report, my FAFSA was selected for verification:
“Your FAFSA has been selected for a review process called verification. Your school has the authority to request copies of certain financial documents from you and your parent(s).”
But for some reason, my UCLA Provisional Award Letter still gives me a breakdown of the estimated aid/grants I’m eligible for.
Anyone know if this is specific to UCLA since this is a federal verification or will this need to happen for any school my son choses, whether a UC or private college?
@napkinsAreUs The award notice you received is what you will get assuming you pass verification. Verification is very straightforward: they simply verify the information you entered on your FAFSA. Very painless.
@klingon97 It seems so painless unless you have just spent the last several months, filling out the FAFSA, the CSS Profile, uploading for the IDOC, and dealing with the farm/ and business supplement. Then also having your kid being randomly chosen for application verification as well as FAFSA verification.
Easy is in the eye of the beholder. This is just one more PITA hoop and I am sick of jumping through them.
By painless I mean that all you do is go onto the FAFSA site and upload your IRS data. That satisfies verification. Unlike past years, you no longer have to send your tax documents.
The federal deadline to submit verification documents is no later than 60 days after your last day of attendance
or August 30th 2017, whichever is sooner. However, we encourage students to submit verification
documents as soon as possible. Delays in completion and submittal of verification documents may result
in limited funding for 2016-2017.
Thank you two