From the Financial Office:

Dear Conditionally Admitted Graduate Student,








The Office of Financial Assistance has completed a review of your financial aid file and has discovered that a problem exists with your admission status which must be resolved immediately in order to permit processing of your fall 2010 financial aid funds. According to the Office of Admissions, you have been conditionally admitted to your Masters program since the fall 2009 semester. Please understand that, as a conditional admit, students occasionally may receive financial assistance; however, they are limited to receiving that aid if they are enrolled in only the first twelve (12) months/one calendar year of that conditional status. We are alerting you via this letter that your time frame for conditional eligibility has expired. Therefore, you are not eligible for Federal financial assistance for fall 2010 until your admission status is upgraded to full admission.







According to federal guidelines, a student must be fully admitted into an eligible degree program and be enrolled as a regular student in order to receive financial aid funds. A regular student is defined as one who is enrolled or accepted for enrollment for the purpose of obtaining a degree by the University of Illinois at Springfield. One exception to this standard at UIS is the status of conditional admission. Graduate students are, on occasion, conditionally admitted to UIS in order to allow them time to complete specified prerequisite courses, or to raise their cumulative grade point average (GPA), before being fully admitted to their program. These students may receive financial aid as long as they meet all other financial aid requirements (e.g., satisfactory academic progress); however, these students must successfully complete their prerequisite coursework, or raise their GPA, within one academic year. After that academic year/twelve (12) month period, they must be fully admitted into the program in order to continue receiving financial assistance.







To summarize, you must be fully admitted to your Masters program in order to be eligible for financial assistance. You must contact your program and speak with them about your admission status. If they have fully admitted you, they need to contact the Admissions Office to have your official status updated. If your official admission status is not changed to “fully admitted”, you will not be eligible to receive any new disbursement of financial assistance. Should you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact the Office of Financial Assistance at 206-6724.







Sincerely,



Renee Clausner

Financial Aid Advisor

University of Illinois Springfield

University Hall Room 1055

Springfield, IL 62703-5407

217-206-6724



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