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2024 Financial Aid & Enrollment Timeline
For many of our seniors, making a decision on where you will begin your postsecondary education in the Fall depends on finances, this is what our timeline will look like for the remainder of the school year:
ASAP: Submit the FAFSA
The rest of February: Activate your student accounts at each school to which you have been admitted. This is where you will check the status of your financial aid, including notices of requsts for additional documentation that you should submit as soon as you receive them so that your aid is not delayed.
While you are waiting on financial aid, apply for local scholarships and institutional scholarships! You can access institutional scholarships through your admitted student portal at each school to which you have beeen admitted.
March:
Decisions: If you applied regular decision, you will begin receiving admissions decisions beginning March 1st and running through the middle of March. You will need to log into your application portal to access your admissions decision.
Create your Portal: Once you've been admitted, activate your student account at each school to which you have been admitted. This will be a different username and password than your application portal. Check it weekly for updates to your financial aid status. Upload any additional documentation that has been requested. If you don't know how to do this, come get help from me!
Housing: March is typically when students are applying for housing, but you will not be applying for housing until you have decided which institution you will attend. Most schools will adjust their priority housing deadline due to the FAFSA delays. If they require you to live on-campus your first year, they cannot deny you housing and will adjust the deadline to align with the FAFSA delay. If they do not have a first year live-on requirement, you will want to check each school that is still on your list for updates from individual schools about their housing application timeline.
Continue to apply for scholarships!
April: Continue to check your student account at each school to which you have been admitted weekly for updates to your financial aid status. If you receive a financial aid award and need help understanding what it means, come see me! You should wait to make a decision about a school until you are able to compare financial aid awards at each school to which you have been admitted.
May: It is likely that the usual May 1st deadline of confirming enrollment at your college of choice will be pushed. We will watch for communication from colleges as we enter the Spring. If you do not plan to attend a 4-year school, then there is usually not a May 1 deadline unless you are attending a 2-year school with housing.
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