Financial aid (grants and student loans) will be credited to outstanding tuition and fees first. If you have been awarded more financial aid than outstanding tuition and fees, the difference will be disbursed to you by check. Your award letter will give you an estimate of how much aid you have been awarded each quarter.
After you have been awarded aid, here is how you may pick up your financial aid check:
- Checks for summer quarter, 2011, will be available on or after July 7th. In all other quarters, checks are generally available the first day of the regular quarter(please note that loan checks for first-time, first quarter borrowers are not available until 30 days after the first day of the student’s first quarter). Unfortunately, aid may not be released early for on-line or other classes that begin before the regular quarter start date.
- Checks may be picked up at the Cashier’s window, located on the second floor of the West Building. To pick up a financial aid check, students must have a photo ID.
- Students who are taking on-line classes may email the Financial Aid Office at financialaid@lwtech.edu requesting that their check be mailed to them AFTER their classes have commenced (please note that the office cannot accept requests made before the start of the college's regular quarter, or before aid has been disbursed for the student). Checks will be mailed to the address on record with Enrollment Services.
- Students who drop from classes before or on the 5th business day of the quarter, but after aid has been disbursed, may owe a repayment from financial aid. The Financial Aid office cannot increase any grant aid awards for students adding classes after the 5th business day of the quarter.
- Students with questions about their financial aid check should visit the Financial Aid Office.
Students must attend classes to be eligible for financial aid. Students who do not attend a class, or withdraw early from classes, may owe a repayment to the aid program that was awarded. Students that owe a financial aid repayment may not be eligible to receive additional financial aid from any college, and may be subject to collection activity from federal, state or institutional sources.
