Financial Aid Appeal Question

pushydad
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:54:05 +0000

After many calls, I was able to finally find out that our appeal had been denied. I half expected that but I was floored to find out the following. Need based FA is determined freshman year. It rarely goes up if your financial circumstances change for the worse in subsequent years. Thus, the loss of income that we experienced in early 2013 (and which continues still), will have no impact on FA for the next three academic years. I have a lot of great things to say about AU but their financial aid office and its policies leave many students on very shaky ground.