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Student Financial Aid and Enrollment Services


Detailed Checklist for Parents

 

The most efficient way for students to accept their financial aid and scholarship awards is online by accessing their accounts through ASAP. For explanations about your award letter and terminology used, please visit our Understanding Your Award Letter webpage. In addition, please review the guidelines for submitting paperwork found on our Paperwork Guidelines page. For scholarship awards, please refer to any scholarship award letter for instructions on accepting awards and for deadlines and additional required documents.

  1. All new students (this is a one-time process the first semester a student enters) must complete the Student Information Form and return it to Financial Aid and Enrollment Services Office.
  2. If your student has been awarded a Stafford Loan and wishes to receive it, he/she must follow these instructions in addition to accepting it via ASAP.
    1. First time borrowers of a Stafford Loan must complete online Stafford Loan Counseling.  To expedite the procedure, the student can email the Confirmation Number to financialaid@utsa.edu.
    2. UTSA and the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) have teamed up to provide a web-based application for new UTSA student borrowers to apply for Stafford loans. After the student has accepted a Stafford loan via ASAP and beginning June 1st, he/she will be able to choose a lender via TG Loans by Web. You must choose a lender.  If you do not choose a lender, no one will send the Stafford Loan money to UTSA to cover your charges.  Exact instructions for choosing a lender can be found on our TG Loans By Web webpage.
    3. All students also must complete a Master Promissory Note with the lender.  Depending on the lender, this may be completed electronically or through paper copy.
  3. If a student has been awarded a Parent Plus Loan and wishes to receive it, the parents must follow these instructions in addition to accepting it via ASAP.
    1. Parents who wish to borrow under the PLUS program must be pre-approved from the lender of their choice and complete and submit a PLUS Request Form.
    2. Upon pre-approval from your lender, you must submit notification from your lender that you have been pre-approved for the Parent Plus Loan.
    3. After approval, your lender will send you a Master Promissory Note to complete.
    4. Parents, if you choose the check payment option for the Parent Plus Loan, the money will be issued to you, the borrower.  However, choosing the paper check option can slow the process down for an additional 6-8 weeks.  Choosing the electronic funds option will insure quicker disbursement, but that money will be applied to the students account before being issued as a refund.
  4. If a student has been awarded an Alternative Loan and wishes to receive it, he/she must select a lender ON THEIR OWN (this is not the same process as the Stafford Loan process).  After selecting a lender and receiving pre-approval, an application and instructions will be sent from the lender to the student. 
  5. If a student was awarded the Perkins Loan, he/she must complete Perkins Loan Entrance Counseling and then sign the Master Promissory Note that will be available at UTSA.  Additional Information about the Perkins Loan and Promissory Note is available on our Perkins Loan webpage.

And for the majority of new freshmen and transfer students, that is the financial aid process.  There are other financial aid issues other people may have, and those are listed below.

Scholarships

Over 70 General scholarships are available through the Financial Aid Scholarship Division.  Please be advised that the application deadline for General scholarships is February 15 (received, not postmarked) which is prior to awarding each year. 

Verification

A select number of students are selected for Verification each year.  If you and your student have been notified by UTSA that he/she has been selected for verification, please refer to our Verification website for help to complete that process.

Work Study

If a student has been awarded work study, he/she must then apply for jobs on campus.  Students are given the opportunity to attend a Job Fair during the later part of August, but also can look for on-campus positions on their own or through Career Services. For additional information please review our Work Study Frequently Asked Questions page. 

Please be certain to read other information regarding special circumstances for changes to budgets and awards, how and when aid is disbursed, what happens to financial aid if a student withdraws from UTSA, and how students’ grades and class completion impact financial aid satisfactory academic progress. 

Please contact Student Financial Aid and Enrollment Services with help or additional questions:

(210) 458-8000 or 1-800-669-0919 or financialaid@utsa.edu

 

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