After Your Offer Letter
Your part in the financial aid process doesn't end when you receive your offer letter. Depending on your situation, you may have to complete additional steps. Our financial aid checklist will help you finish the process. To find out what final steps you need to complete, visit . You can check the status of your financial aid anytime.
Financial aid adjustment form
Federal Subsidized Loans and/or Federal Unsubsidized Loans in a 鈥極ffered鈥 status require that you either accept or decline the loan and then submit your decision. If you wish to accept either loan for an amount less than the offered amount or to modify a Federal Subsidized Loan and/or Federal Unsubsidized Loan that you have already accepted or declined, please complete the . All other aid that is not already 鈥淎ccepted鈥 will be updated to 鈥淎ccepted鈥 upon your enrollment in classes for the aid year.
Parents can reduce or cancel PLUS loans by utilizing the Parent PLUS Adjustment form located on our Forms page.
If graduating at the end of summer or fall, rather than the end of spring, we will recalculate your aid based upon that enrollment period. If you are going to be a graduate student at 色色啦, you must notify us in order to receive financial aid at the graduate level.
Scholarship resource form
You must notify our office of scholarships, assistantships, tuition benefits and other resources received from sources outside the state and 色色啦. To do this, complete the scholarship resource form and return it to Student Financial Aid. Private donor scholarships will be indicated as estimated offers until the check from the donor is received by our office.
Federal payment authorization
If you are receiving federal financial aid, you must select an option to pay all charges on your 色色啦 account at the time those funds are paid or limit the payment to only tuition, fees and on-campus housing and food charges. If you already completed this form in a prior year, it is not necessary for you to complete it again. To complete the form for the first time, visit and complete the form online. If you wish to change your payment option, complete and submit the paper federal payment authorization form. If the form is not received prior to the disbursement of your federal aid, we will assume you want your federal aid to pay only tuition, fees and on-campus housing and food charges.
Electronic Master Promissory Note
The (E-MPN) can be used to receive multiple federal Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans. By signing the E-MPN, you are receiving a line of credit for the maximum amount of loans for which you are eligible, not to exceed the maximum allowable under the Higher Education Act. If you are a first-time borrower, you must complete an E-MPN. If notification of the completion of the E-MPN is not received within 30 days of your acceptance of the loan or at least 30 days prior to your last date of enrollment, your loans may be canceled.
Loan entrance counseling
If you are a first-time borrower of a federal Direct Loan at 色色啦, you must complete . We will be notified electronically that you have successfully completed entrance counseling. Your loans will not pay toward your tuition and fees or other 色色啦 charges until entrance counseling has been completed. If you are enrolled and have not completed entrance counseling within at least 30 days after your loans have been offered, your loans may be canceled.
Adding authorized and proxy users
At 色色啦, we respect the privacy of our students and their families. In an effort to ensure that personal information is not provided to any unauthorized user as required by federal law, students may choose to set a parent or third party up as an authorized or proxy user. Federal laws and regulations require students to authorize individuals whom they wish to have access to their information with the following options:
- Authorized Users have access to billing information. These are managed by Accounts Receivable at (269) 387-4141.
- Proxy Users have access to financial aid and academic information. These are managed by the Registrar's Office at (269) 387-4300.
Visit to provide proxy and authorized user access.
Additional funds
Financial aid doesn't always cover your entire cost. If you need additional help, you might need to consider private alternative loans.
