The team at OSFA keeps getting more offers out the virtual door — over 31,000 for 2022-23! In early May, we began emailing out Summer 2022 financial aid offers to enrolled students – 3,300+ already sent. Financial aid for the summer term is more limited than what is available for the academic year. The most common …
With another semester approved for disruption grading (SD/UD), we thought you all may appreciate a reminder on how it connects to Satisfactory Academic Program, which students must maintain to be eligible for financial aid. What is SAP usually? OSFA is required to evaluate three components at the end of each academic year for a student to maintain …
OSFA’s conundrum – the information we need from the Department of Education about the Federal Pell Grant isn’t typically available until February (if we’re lucky!) but we begin to admit the incoming freshmen class in December. These past few years, our team has provided students their financial aid offer in December, but often that original …
Passed by the Senate by a 91-7 vote hours after the House passed it easily, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 will have some major impacts to financial aid. Most of the changes go into effect July 1, 2023, with the 2023-24 FAFSA reflecting those changes available starting October 1, 2022. Here are some brief highlights: …
Verification. The process used by the institution to check the accuracy of the information the student and, in the case of a dependent student, the student’s parents, provided when applying for Title IV (aka Federal) financial aid via the FAFSA. In order to complete the verification process, students are required to provide certain documents to …
The Teacher Pledge Program is a new School of Education loan forgiveness program. UW–Madison students who take the Pledge receive loans to pay their in-state tuition, fees, testing, and licensure. After teaching K-12 in Wisconsin for three to four years, the loans are completely forgiven. The goal of this program is to encourage a diverse …
What do Sevastopol and Monona Grove High Schools have in common? That’s not the beginning of a corny joke…but believe me, we tried to make it one. These schools, physically located roughly 200 miles apart, heard the same financial aid information on the same night- all thanks to COVID. Most aspects of living through a …
By: Todd Reck The LEAP Forward Internship Program was suspended for summer 2020, but that does not mean that DEM’s commitment to local high school students was suspended. Read more about how the LEAP Forward team has developed an Online Classroom to help more Madison students become college and career ready. By: Todd Reck The …