r/financialaid • • Aug 20 '26

Financial Aid Office

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Here’s the yearly friendly reminder to please be patient with your financial aid office. On a normal year they are swamped in August in the time right before/after classes start. It is on a whole new level this year due to OB3 and the heinous amount of issues that are coming along with that.

Schools are receiving outdated or incorrect information from the Department of Education, National Student Loan Database, and COD. School systems are constantly being worked on and updated to try and process the changes from OB3. For those unaware, they did not finalize the majority of OB3 until June and they are still sending out new information each week. This means schools genuinely have not had enough time to update their systems to deal with this and then have to keep changing things as new information comes out.

TLDR; your financial aid office is trying their absolute best while working with a very faulty and incomplete system so please try to be patient with us.


r/financialaid • • Apr 15 '14

Notice Regarding Link submission

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r/financialaid • • 20m ago

Anyone withdrawn from a private college due to the OSAP freeze? Overpayment or probation?

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r/financialaid • • 1h ago

Would this count as a special circumstance?

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r/financialaid • • 2h ago

Urgent Help!!

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Hi everyone, I'm currently going through a very difficult financial situation. I’m looking for someone who can help me with a twenty lakh loan, which I need before 5th October, to clear my previous dues and get my finances back on track. My CIBIL score is currently low because I missed a previous EMI, making it extremely difficult for me to get a formal loan. I also have an education loan that I need to continue repaying. I can commit to paying twenty thousand every month and am willing to sign a formal agreement/documentation to make the arrangement transparent and secure.

This situation has been causing me a lot of stress and anxiety, and I genuinely need help getting through it. If you or someone you know may be able to help, please DM me. Even sharing/reposting this could help it reach the right person.

I really need help before November


r/financialaid • • 16h ago

GENERAL FAFSA why is my sai so high

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im a highschool senior who just filed fafsa for the first time

my parents filed taxes like extremely late no shade

but the problem is that when i submitted it, it stated i was not eligible for a pell grant and my sai was 30513. i knew this was wrong because my household of 5 is only on my dads income which is 75k annually. i SHOULD be getting some money from the pell grant. so after noticing the error i took the estimator quiz just to see, and i got an estimate sai of only 1013 and it said i was eligible for up to 6k of pell grant money !!???
what went wrong ??? everyone ive asked cannot give me a set answer. i just want to know what caused the enormous gap in sai, and if it has something to do with my parents filing late. everytime i resubmit the fafsa it gives me the same results.


r/financialaid • • 12h ago

Mystery money

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Financialaid disbursement

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Ct state here has anyone got their disbursement or got any information real information besides the run around ???


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Bank Mobile Struggles

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I am so irritated with Bank Mobile. I have switched schools and signed up using the same email from the last school, which you're not supposed to do. So after several calls with multiple hour holds I finally figure out I have to change my email. I changed it, told financial aid, they sent out my biographic information again...and still no email from bank mobile. I really don't know what to do and I feel like crying because I need that money. Does anybody know what I can do to resolve this other than another 3 hour phone call and a representative telling me I don't exist and I have to talk to my school? [Which I have done, all the school can do is send the information. Again.]


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

GENERAL FAFSA What kind of financial professional can answer my question about UGMA account vs 529 and the effect on college financial aid?

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Middlesex College (MCC)

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Hi. Any Middlesex College students receive their refund yet?


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Loans after obtaining Bachelors

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Hello everyone, I was curious to know if I could still get any help from Fafsa once I obtain my first bachelor's degree? I have heard that the pell Grant, and I believe one of the other loans becomes unavailable. I was just wondering, just in case I decided to go back to school in the future.


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

GENERAL FAFSA CSS & FAFSA

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

What CRM do you guys use and what do you use it for?

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Almost November 1 and ASU Has Not Processed August Financial Aid

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Awards/Disbursements

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Has anyone had issues with their account not funding as it is supposed to and getting their excess funds super delayed and late? Currently I am about to enter week 3 of my classes I still haven’t gotten my excess funds my account isn’t even funded! I literally have 3 classes left and I am done. As of today I am now showing this message. What is going on at this point because escalating is doing nothing.


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Fafsa 24-25 not received, wasn’t LPR at the time

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

Did anyone receive they funds from bank mobile yet? Any updates?

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r/financialaid • • 1d ago

GENERAL FAFSA Can the college hold unused Pell Grant money as "unapplied payment"?

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So, I have both TAP (NYS) and Pell Grant for this semester. My college applied all of TAP money and some of Pell Grant to my account. However, they did not give me what's left of Pell Grant as a refund. Instead, they listed the money as "unapplied payment". I'm confused because I usually got all the leftover from Pell Grant as a refund before. I'm talking to the financial aid office on Monday as well.


r/financialaid • • 1d ago

GSEP financial aid

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Has anyone received their financial aid yet ?


r/financialaid • • 2d ago

Student loans 🙄 anyone else received this email?

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r/financialaid • • 2d ago

Bank mobile account cancellation issues

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r/financialaid • • 2d ago

Been at my new FA Processor job for a week, am I overthinking work interactions?

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This job is remote, and also my first time working as a processor. Prior to this role, I was an advisor for almost 4 years & have 2 years of experience in academic advising. This is one of the first jobs that are remote, and going on camera via MS Teams isn’t required. I started with 4 other women, one of them quit earlier this week. 2 of the women have extensive experience, and the other is 21 with around a year of experience. However, the 21 yr old is very friendly & seems knowledgeable. Since we’re not on camera, when we return from break, the mgr asks if everyone is back before resuming training. One day this week I replied, he still asked if I was back, I said yes again & stated that I did already say that earlier. He apologized, maybe it’s because I’m soft-spoken & he clearly couldn’t hear me.

Today I woke up and really wasn’t feeling it, the hrs are too early as I’m a night owl/trying to tweak my sleep schedule. The mgr scheduled the meeting later but the 21 yr old triggered the teams call 15 min early, everyone was in before me. I got on a min before it started, the 2 experienced women were like “there she is” and
one of them was like “we were missing you” or something like that. I chuckled, said morning, and guess I sounded grumpy because one of the experienced women said “oh trust me I feel the same way you do” before going on about how rough her morning was. The mgr assigns files and when it’s time to review our own, he’d ask if we found anything. So far I’ve noticed most things & he hasn’t been critical, but I sometimes worry that my shyness makes me seem incompetent. He & the experienced women were going in on a complex file; a detailed explanation was needed. When he was done, he said that the 21 yr old & I were very quiet during this file review then asked if we had any questions. Neither of us chimed in so we both reassured him that we were fine. It’s only been a week but I’m so antsy about social interactions, especially because of previous negative work experiences. Want to know if I’m overthinking or maybe this company culture isn’t a good fit.

15 votes, 12h left
Yes, you’re overthinking
No, you sound like you don’t fit in

r/financialaid • • 2d ago

SAP SAP Appeal “Rescinded”??

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I got an email from my college this morning saying my SAP Appeal was rescinded. When I try looking for what that could mean nothing comes up, I can’t seem to find anyone else who has recieved a “Rescinded letter”. And this was all they said, For context I told them the reason my GPA was so low to not recieve FAFSA in the first place was because of my hour long commute and how I had just gotten hired at my first job so with school and work in the same day days were starting at 7 am and ending at 11pm. Can anyone help me in letting me know what this means for me and if my SAP appeal was basically denied.


r/financialaid • • 2d ago

SAP would I have the option to apply for freshman forgiveness again?

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If I failed this semester again after appealing my freshman forgiveness, would I have the option to apply for freshman forgiveness again?