I am stuck paying for my own tuition because of FAFSA or FAU I am not sure who. I filled out a FAFSA during February of my Senior year of HS. I mailed it away nicely.
I go to school in Florida and I had been eligible for the Florida Bright Future's Scholarship. It would cover 75% of my tuition. All I had to do was send in my FAFSA.
By June I hadn't received anything about financial aid. I called FAU and they said that they had no record of me sending financial aid info. SO I called FAFSA, they had a record of receiving it and processing it. So somewhere between FAFSA & FAU, it was lost. By the time i filled out a new one and turned it in, it was July. FAU got back to me in late July after processing it. Then I was sent a form that said "Funds for the current school year have been exhausted." I called financial aid at my school and they told me there was nothing I could do. So my dad said it was alright and he would pay for the year. FAU told me to re-apply for the following year. So I did, and I received a letter in the mail from the state saying that, Florida Bright Futures can only be issued to incoming freshman.
FAU said that they would give me $800 grant, but I still had to pay for the rest. OS now this coming year, I am only getting a $737 grant. It sucks so bad! I could have been paying so little and because stupid people cant do their jobs I have to pay out!!
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