<p>So a few months ago I was planning to go to a different college and was looking at my financial aid and accidentally clicked accept next to the work study box. Now when I go to look at other colleges financial aid award I don’t have work study which I find odd. I immediately clicked the decline box right after. Did I mess up my work study for other colleges or what? Should I call? The college I accidentally did that for was the university of Texas at Arlington and I plan on going to the university of north Texas.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Each college’s aid package is designed by the people at that college. If you get work study at one, you would not automatically qualify for work study at another.</p>
<p>Work Study is one of three federal aid programs (the others being the Perkins loan and SEOG) that are referred to a campus based aid. These programs have very limited funding. Schools are given a certain amount of funds and set their own criteria for how to award them. They usually have many more people that qualify than they have funds to award, and once they have awarded the funds they can’t get any more. It is quite common for a student to be awarded these funds at one school and not be eligible for them at another, and even to receive them some years at their school and not other years at the same school. All depends on the criteria the school sets, their level of funding, how many others qualify, and where you are in line as the funds are allocated. (My daughter received these funds some years and not others at the same school, and in wildly varying amounts.)</p>
<p>Accepting WS at one school will have had no impact on whether or not you were offered WS at another.</p>
<p>Oh okay I thought I messed it up some how. Good to know.</p>