We expect the 2024-2025 Financial Aid pages in the Student Administration System to be temporarily unavailable between Tuesday – Friday, April 23-26. Students may still access their Action List during this time. We appreciate your patience.

Today our office has begun reviewing student applications for institutional aid.  Please continue to monitor your e-mail for communication regarding your aid offer, as well as any documentation we may need.  We understand many of you are anxious to receive your financial aid offers for 2024-2025 and we will be working diligently over the coming weeks and months to get offers our to all students who applied.  We ask for your patience as we review and package aid offers.

To all second and third year students, please double check your account for any holds. Registration for the summer term will begin shortly and a hold will prevent registration and financial aid. One of the most common holds is the the Student Financial Responsibility Agreement and 1098T Consent. If you see this hold you can clear it through Student Admin via the Bursar section. Other holds may require different actions to clear them. We ask that you review and take action in a timely manner so as not to negatively affect summer courses and aid.

Great News!

We have begun updating student admin (SA) to reflect any documents that have been submitted for the 24/25 Institutional Aid application cycle.

 

What does this mean? You will begin to see your checklists (To-Do’s) in Student Admin for the upcoming 24/25 academic year.

 

Will SA show everything submitted? Not at first. Due to a systematic process that must run overnight, there will be a delay between the Institutional Aid Application checklist populating and the tax  documents checklists populating.

 

I submitted everything, why does SA say I didn’t? Updating the documents received is a manual process. Please be patient! We may not have gotten to your documents yet, but we are working as quickly as possible. If we need anything further, we will reach out to you directly.

 

Does this mean I will get my aid offer too? No. The Department of Education is not sending FAFSA data to schools until sometime in the first half of March. We currently do not have an ETA on when aid offers will begin going out.

The on-time Initial aid application priority filing date is February 15, 2024!!!

 

Please review the important information below regarding the 2024-2025 Financial Aid Application cycle.

 

The On-Time Financial Aid Application priority filing date is  February 15, 2024.

 

Federal Loan Applicants:

• File the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) available December 31, 2023 at FAFSA
• Use UConn’s Federal School Code, 001417

 

Institutional Aid Applicants:

• File the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at FAFSA=
• Use UConn’s Federal School Code, 001417
• Compile 2022 signed Federal Tax Returns & W2(s) for yourself, spouse (if applicable), and parents
• Complete the 2024-2025  Institutional Aid Application  Please read the information carefully
  • In order to help you keep track of all required documentation, we have attached the 2024-2025 Financial Aid Checklist
• You can now upload documents to our secure server here:    Document Upload  Please use the secure upload for all document submissions.

 

 

Please remember, the On-Time Financial Aid application priority filing date is now February 15, 2024.  In order to be considered “on time” for Institutional Aid purposes; you must submit BOTH a completed 2024-2025 FAFSA and a completed and signed Institutional Aid application with parent information and signature by the deadline. If you have already submitted the required documents, you can disregard this message.

 

 

 

 

When will I know if UConn received my FAFSA?  The Department of Education has just announced that they will NOT be sending application information to schools until sometime in the first half of March. That means that we will NOT be able to confirm that it was received. However, once you submit it, the date of submission to the Dept. of Ed is the filing date.  We will not be able to start file review until after this information is received by the Department of Education.

 

What’s the bottom line? If you wish to be considered for Institutional Aid for the 2024/2025 academic year; you must complete The 2024/2025 FAFSA and submit a completed and signed 2024-2025 Institutional Aid Application   with parent financial and household information by the priority filing deadline of February 15, 2024.  You will also need to submit all your, your spouse (if applicable) and your parent(s) signed 2022 federal tax information (including all applicable schedules) and 2022 W-2’s.  If you only wish to be considered for Federal Direct Unsubsidized and/or Federal Direct Graduate PLUS Student Loans; then you only need to complete the 2024/2025 FAFSA.

Please note: The Office of Student Financial Aid Services will NOT be able to confirm all your documents are submitted. The only information we can confirm is if we have the completed institutional aid application. Once we begin file review sometime in March, we will contact you directly if we need anything additional.

 

Additional information on the Financial Aid application cycle can be found here: https://health.uconn.edu/financial-aid/how-to-apply/

Even though it’s only January we’re already thinking about graduation and loan repayment. We will be holding three loan repayment seminars this spring, and the first is going to be February 26th at 6PM. Jonathan Chancellor of the AAMC will be in the Low Learning Center delivering a live presentation, reviewing ALL aspects of federal student loan repayment. If you have questions about what repayment plan is right for you, or if you qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness or if you can defer loans in residency or if you just don’t know what to do with your federal loans you need to attend this seminar. Please complete the registration link below so we can confirm attendance, and order enough food because a free dinner is provided! We look forward to seeing you there.

The Department of Education published the 2024-2025 FAFSA on December 31 and it is currently available for students to complete. It is being called a soft open, which means the FAFSA may be down temporarily for maintenance or while other issues are addressed.  If this happens when you are trying to log please try again at a later time.  We do not have any additional information regarding this.

Our brand new, fully electronic institutional aid application is also available.  You can find it linked here. The on-time deadline is still February 15th.  To be considered on-time please submit both a completed 2024-2025 FAFSA and a completed 2024-2025 Institutional Aid Application by the deadline.  Failure to meet this deadline may result in the loss of institutional aid eligibility.  You will also need to submit all your, your spouse (if applicable) and your parent(s) 2022 signed federal tax information (including all applicable schedules) and 2022 W-2’s. We have included a link to our checklist for your convenience. It lists all the required documents necessary for Institutional Aid consideration. 

The Department of Education will NOT be sending completed applications to schools until sometime later this month. That means that we will NOT be able to confirm that it was received. However, once you submit it, the date of submission to the Dept. of Ed is the filing date.