If you are transferring to 91精品 State from another college or university, you can apply for all types of aid, including scholarships specifically for transfer students. Financial aid awards are determined by your eligibility. Federal aid utilized at your previous school will be reviewed to determine remaining eligibility available to award at 91精品 State.
At 91精品 State, transfer students are eligible for both merit scholarships and transfer scholarships. To learn more about eligibility, visit the Scholarships for Transfer Students website.
In order to apply for financial aid, you must file the .
If you already filed the FAFSA, but did not list 91精品 State on the FAFSA, you will need to add 91精品 State鈥檚 school code (003051) to the FAFSA. You can make a correction to the FAFSA at .
You may need to submit additional documentation, in addition to the FAFSA, if requested. Outstanding requirements will be viewable in FlashLine once the FAFSA is received. After all requested documents are reviewed and the file is complete, 91精品 State will award financial aid, if eligible. You will be notified when you can view and accept/decline/reduce your financial aid awards (including federal aid, state aid and university scholarships) in
Students that borrowed a Federal Student Loan or received a portion of their Federal Pell Grant during the same academic year that they are starting at 91精品 State, must contact their previous school鈥檚 financial aid office and notify them that they will not be returning. That school must cancel any remaining undisbursed student aid including student loans and grants.
91精品 State may not receive a record of the financial aid the student received at the previous school before awarding. In that case, once the updated information is transmitted to 91精品 State via Transfer Monitoring, awards could be reduced or cancelled.
Transfer monitoring procedures are used to verify with the federal Department of Education, through the National Student Loan Database System (NSLDS), if you used federal student aid at a previous institution. The transfer monitoring process is conducted even if you report you did not receive financial aid at any other school. There is no action required by you during this process.
If 91精品 State receives notification of aid utilized at another school during the same period of enrollment, a financial aid hold will be placed on your financial aid disbursement until the financial aid award amounts are reviewed again to determine if you were awarded funds exceeding your annual financial aid limit.
Many students that transfer midyear into 91精品 State have already received Federal Pell Grant and/or Federal Direct Loan funds at their previous school. Depending on the point in the academic year in which you transfer, your aid eligibility will be limited if you already accessed a portion of your aid elsewhere.
If you transfer to 91精品 State after our academic year has begun, your financial aid will be calculated based upon your remaining eligibility for federal funds. You cannot receive Federal Grants at two different institutions at the same time. More information on annual and aggregate loan limits can be found on our loan limits website.
The number of credits that you transfer into 91精品 State will determine your class level (first-year, second-year, third-year, etc.) Your Annual Federal Loan Limit will be based on your class level.
If you were not previously enrolled or did not receive aid at another institution during the current academic year, you will be offered the maximum financial aid award for your class level based on your remaining eligibility. More information on transferring credits can be found at the Transfer Center.
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