Award Notification

After all required documents have been reviewed, the University of Iowa Office of Student Financial Aid will send an award notification to you at the residing address you have listed with the University. You will either receive a postcard instructing you to access your award notification on ISIS or you will receive a paper award notification packet. The award notification lists the maximum eligibility for each of the funds offered based on your application information.

If you have not been notified of your award within four weeks of submitting your IVF and all required tax returns, contact the Office of Student Financial Aid.

If you have questions on how the cost of attendance, federal parent/student contribution or financial need were determined, please refer to those pages on our web site for an explanation.

• If you were awarded a loan and you want to accept the loan, you must complete a promissory note, if you have not already done so. Check to see if you need to complete promissory notes or entrance loan counseling on ISIS. Click on Student Records, then click on Award Summary under the Financial Aid heading. If you have loans listed in Section C, check Section D to see if you need to complete additional forms. Additional information is available on the Master Promissory Note (MPN) page of our web site.  

• If you would like to reduce or decline any financial aid listed on your award notification, complete Section G and send it to the Office of Student Financial Aid.

• If information in Section A is incorrect, make the correction in Section A and send the award notification to the Office of Student Financial Aid.

• If you are receiving other financial aid not listed on your award notification, complete Section E and send the award notification to the Office of Student Financial Aid.

• If your parent plans to borrow the PLUS Loan that they were offered, they must confirm that they want to borrow the loan by completing the Request for PLUS (Parent) Loan form (PDF document). The PLUS Loan amount on the award notification is the maximum PLUS amount that a parent can borrow. They should not complete the Parent PLUS MPN electronically because the Office of Student Financial Aid needs additional information that is not available if the note is processed electronically. If promissory notes are required, they will be mailed to the parent following receipt of the request form. The parent borrower must request the PLUS Loan each year by completing the separate Request for PLUS (Parent) Loan form and returning it to the Office of Student Financial Aid.

                                                

                                    

The University of Iowa, Office of Student Financial Aid
208 Calvin Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1315
financial-aid@uiowa.edu, 319-335-1450, 800-553-4692
Fax 319-335-3060

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