Accepting Your Award

Checklist for Accepting and Completing your Financial Aid

  • Once you have been admitted and completed a 2013-2014 FAFSA, a Financial Aid Award Letter will be emailed to your Menlo College email address.  Review it and keep it for your records.
  • All students must complete and sign BOTH the Financial Aid Acknowledgement and the Financial Aid Request Form:  Federal Direct Loan.   These forms are included as part of your award letter.  Submit the completed forms to the Menlo College Office of Financial Aid. 
  • If you are a first time Federal Direct Loan borrower at Menlo College, complete a Federal Direct Loan Master Promissory Note (MPN) online at www.studentloans.gov. 
  • If you are a first time Federal Direct Loan borrower at Menlo College, you are required to complete Entrance Loan Counseling online at www.studentloans.gov.
  • If Federal Work Study is listed on your award letter, after you find a work-study job but before you begin working, ask the Menlo College Office of Financial Aid to provide you with a Federal Work-Study Clearance Form to complete.

Admissions & Financial Aid