Applying for Financial Aid

For Incoming Students:

Deadline for incoming students to apply for financial aid

February 15, 2012

The deadline to submit all required financial aid application materials is February 15, 2012.

If you do not submit your application for financial aid by the appropriate deadline for the year in which you are admitted to F&ES, you will not have the opportunity to be considered for an F&ES Scholarship for subsequent years. You may still submit an application in order to be considered for a Student Assistantship and/or loans, however.

The required application materials are as follows:
Your eligibility for an F&ES Scholarship is dependent in part on our analysis of your 2011 income and assets as of the date you submit your application. In general, future changes in your income and assets are not considered.
 
We strongly encourage you to research and apply for outside scholarships. Once you submit your application for admission and pay the admissions application fee, please contact us so that we may provide you with the access information to our Outside Scholarship Excel Database (OSED). Our resources are limited, and we are unable to meet the full demonstrated financial need of all our applicants. The opportunities that you will find in the OSED may provide the supplemental funding that you need to bridge the gap between any aid that we may offer and the full cost of attending F&ES.

For Returning Students:

Deadline for returning students to apply for Financial Aid

March 30, 2012

All Master’s students receiving F&ES Scholarship, loans, and/or Student Assistantship funding in 2011-2012 or in prior years and planning to return for 2012-2013 must re-apply for financial aid by March 30. This will allow us enough time to process your information and provide you with a financial aid award for next year before the end of the spring semester.

Application instructions are as follows:

IRS Data Retrieval Tool

If possible, please e-file your 2011 federal income tax return at least two weeks prior to completing your FAFSA so that you may use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool to import information from your tax return directly into your FAFSA.
 

Verification of your application for financial aid

If your FAFSA is selected for verification by the U.S. Department of Education, we will notify you prior to the end of the spring semester to let you know what additional information we may require to complete the verification process.