Natalie Snow
Director of Institutional Research

Financial Aid

Please refer to the following financial aid definitions when completing Section H.

Awarded aid: The dollar amounts offered to financial aid applicants.

Financial aid applicant: Any applicant who submits any one of the institutionally required financial aid applications/forms, such as the FAFSA.

Indebtedness: Aggregate dollar amount borrowed through any loan programs (federal, state, subsidized, unsubsidized, private, etc.; excluding parent loans) while the student was enrolled at an institution. Student loans co-signed by a parent are assumed to be the responsibility of the student and should be included.

Institutional and external funds: Endowment, alumni or external monies for which the institution determines the recipient or the dollar amount awarded.

Financial need: As determined by your institution using the federal methodology and/or your institution's own standards.

Need-based aid: College-funded or college-administered award from institutional, state, federal or other sources for which a student must have financial need to qualify. This includes both institutional and noninstitutional student aid (grants, jobs and loans).

Need-based scholarship or grant aid: Scholarships and grants from institutional, state, federal or other sources for which a student must have financial need to qualify.

Need-based self-help aid: Loans and jobs from institutional, state, federal or other sources for which a student must demonstrate financial need to qualify.

Non-need-based scholarship or grant aid: Scholarships and grants, gifts or merit-based aid from institutional, state, federal or other sources (including unrestricted funds or gifts and endowment income) awarded solely on the basis of academic achievement, merit or any other non-need-based reason. When reporting questions H1 and H2, non-need-based aid that is used to meet need should be counted as need-based aid.

Note: Suggested order of precedence for counting non-need money as need-based:

Non-need institutional grants
Non-need tuition waivers
Non-need athletic awards
Non-need federal grants
Non-need state grants
Non-need outside grants
Non-need student loans
Non-need parent loans
Non-need work

Non-need-based self help aid: Loans and jobs from institutional, state or other sources for which a student need not demonstrate financial need to qualify.

Scholarships/grants from external sources: Monies received from outside (private) sources that the student brings with them (e.g., Kiwanis, National Merit scholarships). The institution may process paperwork to receive the dollars, but it has no role in determining the recipient or the dollar amount awarded.

Work study and employment: Federal and state work study aid, and any employment packaged by your institution in financial aid awards.

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION

H1. Enter total dollar amounts awarded to enrolled full-time and less than full-time degree-seeking undergraduates (using the same cohort reported in CDS Question B1, "total degree-seeking" undergraduates) in the following categories. (Note: If the data being reported are final figures for the 2011-2012 academic year [see the next item below], use the 2011-2012 academic year's CDS Question B1 cohort.) Include aid awarded to international students (i.e., those not qualifying for federal aid). Aid that is non-need-based but that was used to meet need should be reported in the need-based aid columnn. (For a suggested order of precedence in assigning categories of aid to cover need, see the entry for "non-need-based scholarship or grant aid" on the last page of the definitions section.)

Indicate the academic year for which data are reported for items H1, H2, H2A and H6 below:        2012-2013 estimated         or           X   2011-2012 final

Which needs-analysis methodology does your institution use in awarding institutional aid?

  X   Federal methodology (FM)
       Institutional methodology (IM)
       Both FM and IM

H2. Number of enrolled students awarded aid

List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-than-full-time undergraduates who applied for and were awarded financial aid from any source. Aid that is non-need-based but that was used to meet need should be counted as need-based aid. Numbers should reflect the cohort awarded the dollars reported in H1. Note: In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates.

H2A. Number of enrolled students awarded non-need-based scholarships and grants

List the number of degree-seeking full-time and less-than-full-time undergraduates who had no financial need and who were awarded institutional—not external—non-need-based scholarship or grant aid. Numbers should reflect the cohort awarded the dollars reported in H1. Note: In the chart below, students may be counted in more than one row, and full-time freshmen should also be counted as full-time undergraduates

H4. Provide the percentage of the class (defined above) who borrowed at any time through any loan programs (institutional, state, Federal Perkins, Federal Stafford Subsidized and Unsubsidized, private loans that were certified by your institution, etc.; exclude parent loans). Include only students who borrowed while enrolled at your institution. 81%

H4a. Provide the percentage of the class (defined above) who borrowed at any time through federal loan programs--Federal Perkins, Federal Stafford Subsidized and Unsubsidized. Include both Federal Direct Student Loans and Federal Family Education Loans. NOTE: exclude all institutional, state, private alternative loans and parent loans. 80%

H5. Average per-undergraduate-borrower cumulative principal borrowed of those in line H4. $30,831

H5a. Average per-undergraduate-borrower cumulative principal borrowed, of those in H4a, through federal loan programs--Federal Perkins, Federal Stafford Subsidized and Unsubsidized. Include both Federal Direct Student Loans and Federal Family Education Loans. These are listed in line H4a. NOTE: exclude all institutional, state, private alternative loans and parent loans. $24,781

AID TO UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE-SEEKING NONRESIDENT ALIENS

(Note: Report numbers and dollar amounts for the same academic year checked in item H1.)

H6. Indicate your institution's policy regarding institutional scholarship and grant aid for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens:

   X    Institutional need-based scholarship or grant aid is available
         Institutional non-need-based scholarship or grant aid is available
         Institutional scholarship and grant aid is not available

If institutional financial aid is available for undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens, provide the number of undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens who were awarded need-based or non-need-based aid: 56

Average dollar amount of institutional financial aid awarded to undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens: $8,706

Total dollar amount of institutional financial aid awarded to undergraduate degree-seeking nonresident aliens: $487,545

H7. Check off all financial aid forms nonresident alien first-year financial aid applicants must submit:

   X    Institution's own financial aid form
         CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE
         International Student's Financial Aid Application
   X    International Student's Certification of Finances
         Other:  _______________________________

PROCESS FOR FIRST-YEAR/FRESHMAN STUDENTS

H8. Check off all financial aid forms domestic first-year (freshman) financial aid applicants must submit:

   X    FAFSA
         Institution's own financial aid form
         CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE
         State aid form
         Noncustodial PROFILE
         Business/Farm Supplement
         Other:  _______________________________

H9. Indicate filing dates for first-year (freshman) students:

Priority date for filing required financial aid forms: March 1

H10. Indicate notification dates for first-year (freshman) students:

Students notified on a rolling basis: Yes starting March 30

H11. Indicate reply dates:

Students must reply by: May 1 or within  4   weeks of notification

TYPES OF AID AVAILABLE

Please check off all types of aid available to undergraduates at your institution:

H12. Loans

FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM (FFEL)
   X    Direct Subsidized Stafford Loans
   X    Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans
   X    Direct PLUS Loans

   X    Federal Perkins Loans
         Federal Nursing Loans
         State Loans
         College/university loans from institutional funds
         Other:  _______________________________

H13. Scholarships and Grants

NEED-BASED
   X    Federal Pell
   X    SEOG
   X    State scholarships/grants
   X    Private scholarships
   X    College/university scholarship or grant aid from institutional funds
         United Negro College Fund
         Federal Nursing Scholarship
         Other _______________________________

H14. Check off criteria used in awarding institutional aid. Check all that apply:

H15. If your institution has recently implemented any major financial aid policy, program, or initiative to make your institution more affordable to incoming students such as replacing loans with grants, or waiving costs for families below a certain income level please provide details: ____________________________________________________________

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