Below are some frequently asked questions regarding financial aid. If you need more information, contact The Office of Financial Aid.
The 2024-2025 FAFSA will open in December 2023, although the Federal Student Aid Office has not given a specific date yet.
General eligibility requirements include that you are a U.S. 公民或符合条件的非公民,并参加了符合条件的学位或认证课程.
Yes, the FAFSA must be completed each year you attend college to receive financial aid. The FAFSA application typically opens every year on October 1st. However, the 2024-2025 FAFSA will be opening in December due to the FAFSA Simplification Act.
For the 2023-24 FAFSA, you and your parent's (if you are a dependent student) tax returns from two years prior is required. For example, if you are filling out the 2023-24 year FAFSA, you and your parent's 2021 tax returns are required. You can use the IRS Data Retrieval tool provided by FAFSA if you are eligible.
The 2023-24 FAFSA may also required a parent's signature and personal information if you are considered a dependent student.
Some FAFSA applications are selected for a process called verification,其中财政援助体育菠菜大平台办公室将要求您提供额外的信息或文件. Check your email and your MyBLUE to-do list often to ensure there is no more documentation you need to submit. You will not receive financial aid until all documentation is submitted.
The 2024-24 FAFSA is undergoing changes called the FAFSA Simplification Act. 该法案将把目前的100多个问题减少到30个问题. Another change is that tax return information will be pulled directly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Every contributor on your FAFSA will be required to have their own FSA ID (username and password for studentaid.gov). Contributors can be:
-your spouse, if married,
-your parents, and
-if married, both parents will need an FSA ID
-如果你的父母离婚了,哪个家庭提供更多的经济支持.
-the household could include a parent and stepparent, who would each need to have separate FSA ID's
Students are encouraged to help contributors create an FSA ID before the 2024-25 FAFSA opens in December. To create an FSA ID, go to studentaid.gov and click on "Create Account" in the upper right corner.
On average, the FAFSA takes 40 minutes to complete your first time filling it out, and 26 minutes to renew. It is recommended to plan time to fill out the FAFSA with your parent, as the FAFSA will require information from both you and your parent(s). 填写FAFSA以获得联邦财政援助,如助学金、贷款和勤工俭学.
对于第一次填写FAFSA的学生,平均需要40分钟才能完成.
For students renewing their FAFSA, it takes 26 minutes to renew on average.
政府将需要3-5个工作日来处理您的FAFSA并将其发送给体育菠菜大平台. After the 体育菠菜大平台 Financial Aid Office receives your FAFSA, it will take up to 5 business days to upload FAFSA into the 体育菠菜大平台 system, 这将从你的MyBLUE待办事项列表中删除“完成你的FAFSA”项目. If you make any changes to your FAFSA, this timeline starts over again. Make sure you check your to-do list on MyBLUE after the 体育菠菜大平台 Financial Aid Office has received your FAFSA in case you were selected for verification. 如果您担心您的FAFSA是否被体育菠菜大平台收到,请今天体育菠菜大平台的办公室.
The first thing you will do after completing your FAFSA and receiving your financial aid offer is to accept loans and work-study in your MyBLUE account. You can accept any amount up to the maximum amount that you were offered, so only accept what you will need. Scholarships and grants are automatically accepted for you since you will not have to pay these back. After you accept your financial aid, you will need to complete the Master Promissory Note and Entrance Loan Counseling if this is your first time borrowing federal student loans (if you have previously completed these items in the past 10 years then you are not required to repeat them). Financial aid will begin to disburse to your 体育菠菜大平台 account up to ten days prior to the start of the semester and will continue to disburse daily throughout the semester as financial aid is processed and/or accepted.
如果你没有获得经济资助,可能是以下原因之一:
You have not completed the FAFSA for the current school year
不可以,你可以接受任何金额的贷款,以你得到的最高金额为限. It is recommended to only accept what you need so you can keep your student loan debt as low as possible. To accept your student loans, log into your MyBLUE and click on the Financial Aid tab. Click Accept/Decline Offers and selected the correct year. Read through your Rights and Responsibilities and selected Continue. Review you loan (and work-study if eligible) offers and click the drop-down menu next to Offer Action. 在这里,您可以选择接受全额,拒绝全额,或接受较低的金额. If you choose the accept a lower amount option, 将创建一个新框,允许您输入想要借用的确切金额. 请记住,你的贷款将分为秋季和春季学期, so take out enough to cover both semesters. For an estimate of what one semester will cost you, check out 体育菠菜大平台's Cost Calculator. For questions and concerns about federal student loans, contact our office.
If the tax return (for you or your parents) you submitted on your FAFSA (FAFSA requires the tax returns from two years prior to the FAFSA year) is not a good representation of your current financial situation, please fill out and submit a Special Circumstances Form. A financial aid counselor will review this form and 是否能够解释情况的变化并调整FAFSA上的数据. 如果您对特殊情况或特殊情况表格有疑问, contact our office at (308) 865-8520 or email finaid1@aprender-a-bailar.com.
If your parents are divorced or separated and don’t live together, 在过去的12个月里,你将在你的FAFSA上列出与你住在一起的父母.
If you lived the same amount of time with each divorced or separated parent, you will list the parent who provided more financial support to you during the past 12 months or during the most recent 12 months that you actually received support from a parent.
If your parents are divorced but live together, 你要把他们的婚姻状况写为“未婚,双方合法父母共同生活”," and will list both parents on the FAFSA.
If your parents are separated and live together, 你要注明他们的婚姻状况为“已婚或再婚”(而不是“离婚或分居”)。, and will list both parents on the FAFSA.
For questions or concerns, contact our office.
体育菠菜大平台 does not require students to complete a FAFSA, but highly encourages it. 完成FAFSA将使学生有资格获得联邦贷款, grants, and work-study. Some scholarships also require students to have completed their FAFSA. Students will need to fill out a FAFSA every year to continuing remaining eligible for federal financial aid.
如果你是一个被录取的新生:有资格获得体育菠菜大平台优秀奖学金, 你所要做的就是在每年的3月1日之前申请并提交你的成绩单. To apply to other 体育菠菜大平台 scholarships, fill out the Admitted Incoming Freshmen Scholarship application that will submit you to every 体育菠菜大平台 scholarship that you qualify for. This application opens August 1st and closes March 1st of every year. For more information, see our scholarships page.
If you are a current undergraduate or graduate student: you can apply for the Current Student Scholarship. 这是一个申请,将提交给你每一个体育菠菜大平台奖学金,你有资格. 当前学生奖学金每年1月15日开放,3月1日截止. You can access this scholarship application through your MyBLUE. For more information, see our scholarships page.
如果你是一个转学生,有多个转学生奖学金体育菠菜大平台提供. These scholarships close March 31st. For more information, see our scholarships page.
Most 体育菠菜大平台 scholarships for admitted incoming freshmen and current students close March 1st of every year. Most 体育菠菜大平台 scholarships for transfer students close March 31st of every year.
Once 体育菠菜大平台 scholarships have closed, we encourage you find outside, or non-体育菠菜大平台, scholarships. Often times community organizations, businesses, and religious organizations will offer scholarships.
You can also use scholarship search databases, such as EducationQuest, to find scholarships.
Remember that if you receive an outside scholarship, report it on your MyBLUE account.
If you are receiving an outside, or non-体育菠菜大平台, scholarship, you will need to report it on your MyBLUE account so that the funds can be added towards your 体育菠菜大平台 bill.Watch this video to see step by step instructions on reporting your outside scholarships.
Students who received a merit scholarship (Board of Regents, Blue and Gold, Distinguished Scholar, Loper Achievement)将在被体育菠菜大平台录取后不超过两周内收到通知 and体育菠菜大平台 having received their transcripts. Students who received an admitted incoming freshmen, current student, 转校生奖学金申请将于每年5月初通知. Scholarship recipients will be notified of their award by email through their preferred email address.
If you have not been notified about a scholarship, it likely means that you did not receive that scholarship. For questions or concerns, contact our office.
Once you have been offered financial aid, you can view your estimated net cost, or how much college will cost you after scholarships and grants, in your MyBLUE account. 点击“经济援助”选项卡,滚动到页面底部,直到你看到两个图表. 第一张图表被标记为“出勤成本”,并计算你的直接成本, or bills charged by 体育菠菜大平台 (tuition, housing, student fees, etc.), and indirect costs, or an estimate of expenses you may incur in college (transportation costs, travel, personal expenses, etc). 您只需要支付体育菠菜大平台的直接费用,而不需要支付体育菠菜大平台的间接费用.
The second chart is labeled "Estimated Net Cost" and includes your direct and indirect costs from the chart above, along with gift aid awarded, or any scholarships and grants you received.你的估计净成本是你的直接和间接成本减去你所授予的捐赠援助. You can use federal student loans, work-study earnings, or personal finances to fund the remaining expenses.
如果你还没有获得经济援助,你可以计算出你的预算 Cost of Attendance and Estimated Net Price with these 体育菠菜大平台 offered calculators. If you would like to talk to a financial aid counselor about how much 体育菠菜大平台 will cost you after financial aid, call (308) 865-8520 or email finaid1@aprender-a-bailar.com.
Refunds are issued two ways:
Direct deposit, and
Paper check.
If you're wondering when you'll get your refund, follow these steps:
Check your MyBLUE to see when your refund was ordered. Go to the "Student Accounts" tab, then click on "Account Details."
退款通常需要在退款订单日期后5-10个工作日处理. If you signed up for direct deposit before the refund order date, 然后,退款将在处理后存入您的银行账户. If you are not signed up for direct deposit, or signed up after your refund order date, 然后会有一张纸质支票,你可以从学生会计办公室拿. 这些支票也将邮寄到学生的主要地址,如果它没有被取走.
You can sign up for direct deposit through your MyBLUE account. Click on the "Student Accounts" tab, then click on "Direct Deposit."
If you do not see a refund order date on your MyBLUE, or it has been longer than 10 business days since your refund date and you have questions about your refund, please contact the Student Accounts Office at (308) 865-8524 or unkfinance@aprender-a-bailar.com. To pick up your refund check or visit the Student Accounts Office in-person, their office is located at University Residence North (URN), Pod C 1st floor (southeast corner of building), 1601 University Drive.
Undergraduate and graduate level Certificate/Endorsement Students
FAFSAs are selected for verification for a number of reasons. 一些fafsa是由教育部随机选择进行验证的. 在某些情况下,当对FAFSA进行更改时,可以选择对其进行验证. And sometimes, FAFSAs are selected for verification when information was mis-entered or does not match information on your tax returns. Getting selected for verification does not mean that you did anything wrong. However, financial aid can not be disbursed until you have submitted all documents needed for verification. For more information, see our Verification Process page.
提交验证文件的最简单方法是通过您的 MyBLUE. For steps on how to do this, see our Verification Process page. You can also bring your documents in-person to the financial aid office located in the Memorial Student Affairs Building, fax documents to (308) 865-8096, or mail documents to this mailing address:
University of Nebraska-Kearney
Office of Financial Aid
Memorial Student Affairs Building
2510 11th Ave.
Kearney, NE 68844
请不要发送包含敏感信息(社会安全号码)的文件, credit card information, medical documents, etc) by email. We will not accept verification documents sent by email.
Scroll to the bottom until you see the "Text Number" header
If your phone number is listed, you are signed up to receive texts. If not, click on the "Change Text Number" and input your phone information.
点击“保存”并确认您的电话号码列在“文本号码”标题下
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) is the minimum academic standards a student must meet to remain eligible for federal funding (loans, grants, and work-study). 如果学生没有达到SAP标准,他们将被给予一个学期的SAP警告. If they are not able to meet SAP during that semester, 他们将被转移到SAP暂停,并且没有资格获得联邦财政援助. If a student is on SAP suspension, they may appeal the suspension如果上诉被批准,他们将再次有资格获得联邦财政援助.
The Office of Financial Aid uses the Expected Family Contribution number to determine how much financial aid a student is eligible for. 要查看EFC,请填写FAFSA并下载学生资助报告 studentaid.gov.
Repayment of federal student loans starts after you graduate, withdraw from all classes, or drop below half-time (6 credit hours for undergraduate, 5 credits for graduate). There is a 6-month grace period before repayment begins. To view your federal loan amount, interest collected, and repayment options, log into studentaid.gov.
For Private Student Loans, consult your loan repayment agreement or Private Student Loan lender.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) uses several loan servicers to handle the billing and other services on federal student loans. Your loan servicer will set you up under the Standard Repayment Plan unless you tell your loan servicer you want a different repayment plan. To view your federal loan amount, interest collected, and repayment options, log into studentaid.gov.
If you want to pay more of your federal loan off per month, or are having trouble paying your monthly loan repayment, contact your loan servicer.
For Private Student Loans, consult your loan repayment agreement or your Private Student Loan lender.
An aggregate loan limit is the maximum 联邦补贴或无补贴贷款的数额,学生可以借 an academic year (fall, spring, and summer semesters). Aggregate limits differ from if you are undergraduate or graduate, and what year of school you are in. They also differ depending on if you are considered a dependent or independent student by the Department of Education. For a list of aggregate loan limits, see our Educational Loans page.
Students who wish to apply for the NE First Responders Recruitment and Law Enforcement Education Act must fill out the application on our webpage here. Students must also upload a completed NE Department of Revenue Verification form and Verification of Satisfactory Performance form, both of which can be found on the NE First Responders Recruitment and Law Enforcement Education Act webpage.