Review
Your Financial Award Letter

You should receive your “Financial Award Package” with information on your qualifying financial
aid from each school that you have been admitted.

The “Financial Award Package” will show the cost of attendance and the amount of each financial aid award that will be granted. The difference between the cost and the amount awarded is the portion that the family is expected to pay.

The financial awards include:

• grants,
• scholarships,
• federally student loans,
• work study programs,
• other college assisted aidAll about financial aid for first-time students:
  — click here

Tags: student aid, student financial aid, Student Loans

Reviewing Important Notes

Time to finalize which school to attend. Use our comparison worksheet to list your schools side-by-side. Determine which school is best for your academic objectives:

this PDF file allows you to compare colleges based on size, student-teacher ratio, and other criteria: download comparison sheet

this Excel spreadsheet allows you to compare cost and aid awarded among colleges download college cost comparison spreadsheet (requires MS Excel or other to open)

You must give your acceptance notice by a certain date — most schools require May 1 deadlines. Remember to submit your deposit to reserve your admission.

Have you arranged housing:

Where are go going to live? Who are you going to live with? Need to get going before the best places are taken.

For on-campus:
check with your college of choice. Once you get accepted into college, you need to move fast on on-campus housing arrangements to avoid being placed on a waiting list

For off-campus:
link to our “Moving to College” housing plan for housing search: click here for college housing

Tags: College Financial Aid, college housing, College Planning, student financial aid