Why my son doesn't get any financial aid?

[austinmshauri]

From UIUC [url=https://www.osfa.illinois.edu/types-of-aid/university-of-illinois-scholarships]financial aid website/url:

Our office also awards a number of scholarships. These scholarships generally have a demonstrated financial need requirement but may also have other requirements, including academic achievement, high school or college grades, ACT or SAT test scores, geographic (hometown or high school) location, or field of study.

To be fully considered for all awards, you should submit a FAFSA and complete the Undergraduate Scholarship Supplement Form. This form collects supplemental information that’s used in the selection of recipients for restricted scholarship funds. It’s kept for 5 years and so should only be completed once.

All their “grants” appear to be for Illinois residents (except the federal Pell, FSEOG, and TEACH grants). They do offer about “1500 scholarships”, but they use the FAFSA to award them based on the criteria above. I think if the college planned to offer this student any scholarships, they would have been listed in the financial aid package he received.