Financial Aid Offer
The Financial Aid Offer page is displayed when you have one enrollment and select the Financial Aid Overview menu item or when you have multiple enrollments and then select the View Financial Aid Offer button for a specific enrollment. You can return to the Financial Aid Overview page by clicking the Back to Financial Aid Overview link at the top of the page or select the Financial Aid Overview menu item.
Select an Academic Year
First, you need to select an academic year. This selection determines the data that will be displayed on the page.
The academic year is defined by its start date and end date. By default, the drop-down displays the academic year associated with the current date and lists additional academic years in descending order.
You can then determine the status of the financial aid for the selected year. The status value indicates whether your financial aid for the selected academic year is Packaged - Ready for Approval, Fully Packaged, Not Packaged, etc.
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If financial aid funds are available to you for the selected academic year, the page will display additional sections with details about the cost of attendance and the financial aid offers. You can then accept or decline specific funds or all funds. The sections that are displayed will depend on the information you provided in your application (FAFSA) and the financial aid offered and packaged by your institution.
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If there are no funds available or packaged for the selected academic year, the following message is displayed: "There is no Financial Aid Offer available yet for the selected Academic Year. Please contact your Institution if you have any questions or need to inform us of a change in your status."
Click the Need Help? button if you want to learn more about the financial aid process. Scroll down to view the help information provided by your institution. Click the Close to hide the help content. 
The Financial Aid Offer page displays the following sections as configured by the institution:
Summary
The Summary section displays your final Estimated Remaining Cost after Grants & Scholarships, Loans, and Other Funding have been subtracted from the institution's Estimated Direct Costs. Indirect Costs to the institution (e.g., food & housing, transportation) and Federal Work-Study are not considered while calculating the Estimated Remaining Costs.
The Estimated Remaining Costs are:
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Recalculated and updated when costs, fund statuses, or fund amounts are changed by the institution
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Recalculated and updated when you accept or decline funding options
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Recalculated and updated when you reduce a loan amount on this page and have not submitted it
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Reset to the actual/previous values when you refresh the page and the new calculation was not saved
When you click the Submit Funds button at the bottom of the page to submit your financial aid selections, the values are saved to the database and sent to the institution for further processing.
Cost of Attendance (Estimated)
The Cost of Attendance (Estimated) section lists the costs for your program of study for the selected academic year. These costs include direct costs to the institution (for example, tuition, application fees, books & supplies) as well as indirect costs (for example, food & housing, transportation, and personal expenses). The Estimated Annual Cost of Attendance Direct + Indirect Costs box indicates the total of all expenses that you need to cover for your program of study.
Grants & Scholarships
This section is displayed only if this type of financial aid is offered and packaged by your institution.
The Grants & Scholarships section lists individual funds that are included in the Gift Aid package and displays the total amount of Gift Aid. The funds are applied to the period listed in the Award Year column. You can Accept or Decline each fund separately or all funds.
Loans & Work-Study
The Loans & Work-Study section lists various types of Federal Direct Loans available to students and parents as well as Federal Work-Study programs.
Loans
This section is displayed only if this type of financial aid is offered and packaged by your institution.
The Loans section lists subsidized and unsubsidized Federal Direct Loans and Institutional Loans for students. You can Accept or Decline each loan separately or all loans.
Before you accept or decline a loan, you can reduce the value in the Gross Amount field. After you have edited Gross Amount, click outside of the grid to view the recalculated bank fees and total loan values as shown in the animation below.
You cannot set the Gross Amount value to $ 0.00 or increase the value over the maximum amount that you are eligible for based on your FAFSA details. See the validation example in the image below.
To reset the original loan amount values in you financial aid offer, refresh the page in you browser using the refresh button 
or a keyboard shortcut such as F5 or Ctrl + R. Once you click the Submit Funds button at the bottom of the page, the values are saved to the database and sent to the institution for further processing.
Parent PLUS Loans
This section is displayed only if this type of financial aid is offered and packaged by your institution.
The Parent PLUS Loans section lists Federal Loans that are available to parents of dependent undergraduate students. You can Accept or Decline each loan separately.
Before you accept or decline a loan, you can reduce the value in the Gross Amount field. After you have edited Gross Amount, click outside of the grid to view the recalculated bank fees and total loan values.
You cannot set the Gross Amount value to 0. You cannot increase the value over the maximum amount that you are eligible for based on your FAFSA details.
To reset original (actual/previous) Gross Amount values, refresh the page before you click Accept, Decline, or Submit Funds.
Once you click Accept or Decline for a specific loan or click the Submit Funds button at the bottom of the page, the values are saved to the database and sent to the institution for further processing.
Federal Work-Study
This section is displayed only if this type of financial aid is offered and packaged by your institution.
The Federal Work-Study program provides part-time employment to students attending institutions of higher education. You can Accept or Decline the Federal Work-Study funding.
Other Funding
This section is displayed only if this type of financial aid is offered and packaged by your institution.
The Other Funding section lists financial aid that can be used to pay the remaining costs. You can Accept or Decline each fund.
For funds of type student payment or cash, you can expand (
) or collapse (
) each line item to view the Payment schedule detail and the Student cash payment plan.
The Payment schedule detail (if configured) displays the following columns:
- Payment Date
- Payment
- Principal
- Interest
- Balance
- Status
The Student cash payment plan (if configured) displays the following columns:
- Annual Percentage Rate
- Finance Charge
- Amount Financed
- Total Payment
Financial Documents
If any financial aid related documents are missing from your record, the page will display a message with a link to the Document Center page where you can review the submitted documents and upload any missing documents.
Holds
If there are financial aid holds on your record, the page will display a message with a link to the My Message Center page with details about the holds and alerts.
Accept, Decline, and Submit Fund Selections
Review your financial aid offer for the academic year and take the following 3 steps:
Step 1: Accept or decline the offered funds.
When the Accept and Decline buttons are displayed, you can accept or decline a fund. At this stage, the fund status at the institution is Estimated.
Click the 
button to accept a fund. The Accept button turns green to indicate that you selected it.
Click the 
button to decline a fund. The Decline button turns red to indicate that you selected it.
Before you accept or decline a loan, you can reduce the value in the Gross Amount field. After you have edited Gross Amount, click outside of the grid to view the recalculated bank fees and total loan values as shown in the animation below.
Step 2: Submit your fund selections.
After you have accepted or declined the funds, click the 
button to submit all your fund selections to the institution for further processing.
Step 3: Review the fund statuses.
Once you click the Submit Funds button, the Accept and Decline buttons are no longer displayed and the fund statuses are updated.
Accepted indicates that you accepted the fund and the institution has set the status to Approved.
Declined indicates that you declined the fund and the institution has set the status to Canceled. The amounts of the declined fund are zeroed out.
Pending indicates that you accepted the fund and a financial aid advisor at the institution needs to approve it. Once the approval is granted, the status is set to Accepted.
