I’m not sure but I hope the EA admitted students hear about merit aid soon! I think last year’s thread showed EA students receiving their merit/financial aid packages around January 26th
Still no news about merit for my EA-admitted daughter. I looked at last year’s thread and it seemed some were seeing the info on the PROWL portal earlier than this date. I figured out how to get into PROWL but it says there is no award info available at this time.
For those who got merit notifications from ED, did they only come by mail or was there a portal update of some kind?
In looking at the thread again, it looked like the info in PROWL was there for a couple of days maybe in late January and then disappeared, and then people started getting merit notifications around Jan. 31/Feb. 1 by mail.
Earlier in this thread, there was a mom whose daughter applied ED and thereafter got an email directing to the portal for the financial aid award. The timeline on LMU’s website said ED applicants would be notified in “late December” and I believe they were notified by email on December 18. Hopefully, that means EA applicants, who are supposed to be notified in “early February”, will be getting award notices within the next week or so? Last year was by snail mail. Hopefully, this year, EA notices will be by email, similar to the ED notices. It sure would be quicker and more efficient.
Sorry, but what is the PROWL website? Is that the general applicant website?
@NorCalsoccermom I didn’t know what it was either until I read last year’s thread and googled it. It seems like it’s the portal that enrolled students use - but accepted students can also gain access to it through the ID number that was assigned to them when accepted - this link should explain it: https://academics.lmu.edu/extension/resources/transcripts/prowl/
@CAtransplant My d (accepted ED) received an email directing her to the portal (the same type of email she received when the acceptance came). On the portal, there was a link to the award letter. The award letter had all the details including how to accept the offer via PROWL. She received a hard copy of the award letter in the mail a few weeks later.
For some reason, PROWL didn’t update to show her award until the second week in January, at least 3 weeks after she received the email. We had to call and a few days later, it was updated in PROWL. Hopefully that will be fixed for you all.
@NorCalsoccermom Your son/daughter received an email with a link to MyLMU and their student id. Within MyLMU, you will find the link to PROWL amongst several other resources.
I don’t think my daughter received an email with link to MyLMU and student ID, though we can see the student id when we click on the link to the Future Lions student portal from the application portal - but that Future Lions Student Portal is at engage.lmu.edu not MyLMU. Is it possible @bewellsw 's D got the email with link to MyLMU because she was admitted ED and therefore presumably already committed to attending where as those students admitted EA haven’t? @amsunshine and @NorCalsoccermom did your child receive an email with a link to MyLMU?
Is LMU still rolling? I applied RD and was hoping for a Feb acceptance, but seems like last year nobody got in in Feb.
No. We also could see the student ID only in the Future Lions portal. The only reason I knew about mylmu and prowl was because of posts from last year. It was easy enough to figure out how to have my D login. Nothing has been posted for her there so far, however.
ok thanks @amsunshine - sounds like your D and mine have the same situation.
@miichael I don’t think it’s rolling - those who have heard so far applied EA or ED. I don’t know the date for RD decisions to come out though.
@CAtransplant and others…now that I think about it, once my d was accepted ED, she accepted her admissions. It was after that she received access to MyLMU. Sorry for the confusion.
Has anyone received their merit/financial aid package yet? My daughter is still waiting for hers (EA)
@Calinext I’m still waiting for mine too, hopefully they’ll come out soon!
My son hasn’t heard anything regarding merit aid or financial aid yet either. I called today and they said he should hear from them in the first 2 weeks of February. Just curious if anyone knows when the scholarship weekend is? Doesn’t seem like they will be giving the students much notice.
I applied for the hispanic scholarship after my admission for film and it said mid February, so I believe we will know on the week of valentines for all scholarships and possibly financial aid.
I think that what has been obvious for both admissions and financial aid is that this and other schools give timelines such as “late December” that EA students will hear back about admission, and then admission notifications go out around mid-December instead. The merit aid decisions for ED students said that they would be released “late December,” but I saw from reading this thread that ED students heard around mid-December. Therefore, the trend is often two weeks earlier than what is stated, probably because not all notifications go out immediately, so they are giving themselves some breathing room. Someone earlier (sorry can’t remember who) said that, last year, EA students started hearing around January 26th or something like that. Based on that, I would have expected notifications to be released already.
Last year appeared to have been a fluke. Some people saw their awards online In prowl around the 26th but then the online awards disappeared from prowl. People then started receiving their awards by snail mail the first week of Feb. Thereafter, portals were updated. It remains to be seen how/when LMU will do the awards this year.
Re: Scholars weekend, my D received an email this week inviting her to the weekend 2/23-2/24.