Is merit aid related to IS status?

financiallylost
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:32:15 +0000

This happened to me at 2 of the colleges I was accepted to out of high school (VCU and ODU) and then again when I was transferring to Tech. Even though my FAFSA and application indicated me as in-state and everything about me was in-state, all of the financial aid offices put me as OOS and required verification. I inquired why this happened at both VCU and VT, just got the answer that some students have to go through additional verification for some things. I got a corrected financial aid award at VCU as a freshman after fixing my status which updated to included state specific aid.

The Financial Aid office is most likely the only place at Tech where your student was identified as OOS. From what I was told as a student, most departmental scholarships go off of information on their own applications or the admissions application, which has an IS address in your case. Most of the scholarships distributed through the Financial Aid office are merit+need based or have a specific application where your student would have indicated IS status while applying, so they probably don’t affect your student.