NOVEMBER

• Research private scholarships by visiting your high school guidance office or the public library and search the internet:
  

  Financial Aid Links Page

• Request applications for private scholarships.

• Pick up 2007-2008 FAFSA and state grant applications from a high school guidance office or Wagner College Office of Financial Aid (see Info Request Form )
• Complete private scholarship applications.
• Federal government mails 2007-2008 FAFSA Renewal forms to returning students who completed the FAFSA last year.

• Collect 2006 tax records.
• Locate Financial Aid workshops in your area.
• Prepare 2007-2008 FAFSA and state grant applications; remember to make copies for your records.
• Complete FAFSA via website or mail FAFSA in the envelope provided.
• Meet with your parents to discuss financial aid.
• Spring semester begins.
• Colleges begin receiving FAFSA data from the processor.

• February 15 priority FAFSA filing deadline for prospective students.
• Wagner’s Admissions Office begins notifying accepted students of their academic/merit scholarship or grant.

• Award Summaries are created and mailed to prospective freshmen.

• Award Summaries are accepted and returned to the Office of Financial Aid.
• April 15 priority filing deadline for returning students to file FAFSA.
• All paperwork for prospective students should be submitted by April 30, 2007.
• Exit Interviews take place for graduating senior loan borrowers.

• May 1st deadline for admissions decisions.
• Stafford Loan Master Promissory Notes and Entrance Counseling Session information mailed to incoming deposited students.
• Requests for additional information (tax returns, other financial documents) are mailed to students.

• Award Summaries are created and mailed to returning students.
• Review of FAFSA information for all returning students begins.
• Submission of Stafford, PLUS and alternative loan applications. 
• Bills mailed to freshmen.
• Set up payment plan with Tuition Management Systems.
• All requested paperwork due.

• Returning students’ Award Summaries are accepted and returned to the Office of Financial Aid.
• Parent Loan processing begins.
• Student Loan processing begins.
• Freshmen bills due.
• Fall bills are mailed to returning students.

• Bills for returning students due.
• All paperwork for returning students should be submitted.
• Orientation Weekend.
• Fall semester begins the last week in August.
• College Work Study job placement begins (first two weeks of classes)

• Job placement for non-CWS students begins (mid-Sept.).