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Dear Financial Aid Committee:
My name is , and I am deep sorrow that I cannot receive financial aid. This is my second time appealing, my first time appealing I thought that I would for sure get my financial aid reinstated but as you can tell from this letter it did not happen. After getting denied financial aid I became depressed, it was nothing serious but enough that I became disgusted with myself because I ...

My son is currently a Junior in High school and we will be filling out the FAFSA early 2013. I am an American citizen, but I think my situation is somewhat complicated because I am not married to my son's Mom and she is not an American citizen. (she is from central America) The situation gets somewhat more complicated because she is working for the world bank in the USA with a work visa, lives ...

Hello everyone, while I was googling on my situation this site came up and it is a wealth of information, my fin aid at school is awful and there is only 1 for the whole school , so he loses applications, appeals, fasfa, and taxes often: I tried doing my financial appeal letter, I would appreciate any input on my rough draft, or what would you do differently? I currently hold a 3.5 GPA at ...

My son's friend, who was involved in an auto accident in which his single mother passed away, came to live with us early last summer. His High School has him classified as homeless until a time that he becomes an adult next summer or my permanent guardianship is appointed. I have not pushed the guardianship due to not knowing if it would benefit him to stay classified as a homeless child or "add" him to ...

I am a single mother and freshman student. I am the only person in my family to ever go to college. I have no idea what i am doing and what is out there as far as help paying for school. I dont understand where your fasfa go's and does it help you pay for living expenses ect... I could use all the information i could get, I also need info on getting a federal ...

Recently, I've been realized that my mom filed "single" on her taxes despite the fact that she was married. I realized as well that she only files as such because she claims that my stepdad does not exist on the taxes when it comes to filing them. I don't exactly know what she meant by that but it worries me, because I will be using her on my FAFSA for next year (she qualifies as ...

please help me proofread this letter for Fin Aid




To whom it may concern:
My name is xxxxx and I am requesting for appeal for financial aid. I was informed that it was suspended because I have not met the Satisfactory Academic Progress. Know I haven’t been doing good in my courses and I don’t blame anyone but myself, would like to explain why. Reason’s why Failed to meet standards was because our house was ...

Hi guys, so I have a question regarding a change of marital status on an already submitted fafsa. I recently got married, on July 1st. My wife submitted her fafsa some time before this. We wanted to change her marital status so that she can claim herself as independent, but the financial aid office has told her that they can't change it because it's illegal. But I'm reading online now that you can change your ...

Dear (insert officer name here),

My name is _____ _____, and I am writing this letter to appeal for additional financial aid. I would like to begin by thanking you for accepting me as an undergraduate student at (schoo name). I also greatly appreciate the Special Recognition Scholarship of $5,000 that has been generously granted to me, but I’m afraid I will be unable to attend unless my financial aid offer is significantly higher.

My ...

Hello, this is my first post on this forum. I was hoping I could get a second opinion on my situation. I am a 21 year old student and I am currently self-sufficient. My father is deceased and my mother and I are not on speaking terms. She was emotionally and financially abusive towards me until I moved out about two years ago, situations including signing my name on my social security checks after I ...