{"id":2651,"date":"2016-03-30T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/?page_id=2651"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:27:45","slug":"admitted-student-timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/admitted-student-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Admitted Student Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Aid Office<\/a>\u00a0assists students in paying for college through the use of federal, state, private. and institutional financial aid programs. An important piece of that role is to help students and parents complete all of the appropriate paperwork so that various forms of financial aid can be disbursed to the student\u2019s account by the time school starts in September.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/stuacct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Student Accounts Office<\/a>\u00a0creates and maintains each student\u2019s comprehensive fee billing statement and works with families to settle those accounts as they come due. We can answer specific questions about the student\u2019s account and process credit balance refunds for students.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Financial Timeline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>January 1\u2013May 1<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Submit 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fafsa.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAFSA<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Submit copies of parent and student 2023 tax returns (including all schedules) and W-2 forms to the Financial Aid Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>No later than May 1 (postmark date)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Make first $300 deposit<\/li>\n<li>Accept your award using <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/admitted\/finaidonline\/\">Financial Aid Online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Early July<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fall Semester Bill sent<\/li>\n<li>Enroll in the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/132p3xzVO9t11WVix76B7NIZcvcBWVmCK\/view\">monthly payment plan option<\/a> (if your family prefers) instead of making two payments per year (one payment before each semester).<\/li>\n<li>Set up email addresses to receive <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/stuacct\/e-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E-Bills<\/a> in SIS<\/li>\n<li>Log onto <a href=\"http:\/\/faid.stolaf.edu\/\">Financial Aid Online<\/a>\u00a0to complete the Outside Scholarship Form<\/li>\n<li>If you have accepted any loans in your financial aid package you will need to <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/accepting-your-student-loans\/\">apply for them separately<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Late August<\/h4>\n<p>Fall semester payment due<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Aid Office\u00a0assists students in paying for college through the use of federal, state, private. and institutional financial aid programs. An important piece of that role is to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4780,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651\/revisions\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/financialaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}