Announcements
2013-2014 Award Letters
Quick Facts- 2013-2014 award letters go out Tuesday and Friday nights at 8 pm EST. 2012-2013 award letters go out Monday nights at 8 pm EST. Check your Spam folder to see if your e-mail account settings filtered the e-mail.
- If you received an e-mail telling you to update your FAFSA tax filing status, please click here to learn more.
- 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 FAFSA downloads are currently in progress. Please note that we have thousands of FAFSA records to bring into our system at this time, so we ask for your patience as we do this. It can take up to two weeks for us to receive your FAFSA from the time you submit it on www.fafsa.ed.gov. When we receive your FAFSA, we will create a federal aid package for you; a subsequent e-mail containing details and instructions will be sent to you. Additionally, the requirement you see on your TC Portal and/or your Admitted Student Website screen will update to Satisfied. Please ensure that you included TC’s federal school code (G03979) on your FAFSA and that all of your information is correct.
- You do not have to have a FAFSA on file to receive a scholarship. Teachers College scholarships and federal aid work independently, so we do not have to have received your FAFSA to provide you with a scholarship. While completion of the FAFSA is not mandatory, it is recommended. If you are eligible to complete it (i.e. if you are a US citizen or eligible non-citizen with an Alien Registration Number), you should do so.
- Award letters are currently being sent to admitted students. We will continue sending out award letters to students twice a week. Scholarship decisions are rolling, so this process will continue throughout the spring and summer.
- You do not need to have accepted your offer of admission to receive your financial aid package. If you are offered any sort of financial aid (scholarship, federal aid, or a combination of both), you will receive an e-mail from our office, regardless of whether or not you have accepted your admission offer.
- If you have not yet activated your TC G-mail account because you have not paid your admission deposit, your financial aid award letter will be sent to the address you used on your admissions application.
- Please do not try to accept your 2013-2014 aid. We are updating the TC Portal, so you are unable to accept anything at this time. Please wait several more weeks before attempting to accept your aid. It is still very early in the 2013-2014 aid process. You will not be able to accept your Graduate PLUS Loan until after July 16, 2013.
- Please click here to view the Teachers College Cost of Attendance information for 2013-2014.
For students who have been admitted and will be receiving aid (scholarship, federal aid, or a combination of both), we started sending award letters on March 15. Because scholarship decisions are rolling (see below for further information), we will continue sending out new award letters throughout the spring and summer for students who have been admitted for the 2013-2014 academic year.
For students who have completed a FAFSA, a letter detailing your federal aid may arrive sooner than the letter detailing your scholarship. If you receive a scholarship at a later time, we will send you a revised award letter. Similarly, if you have received a scholarship but have yet to file a FAFSA or have only recently filed a FAFSA in the last few days, the letter detailing your scholarship may arrive sooner than the letter detailing your federal aid.
If you have received an aid package containing only federal aid, this could mean that a scholarship decision has not yet been made for you; it may also mean that you are not going to receive a scholarship. Any changes or updates to your aid package will be communicated to you via a revised award letter. The absence of a revised award letter means that there has not been a change to your aid package. International students will not see federal aid on their award packages.
If you have no financial aid package on file (i.e. no scholarship and no federal aid), you will not receive an award letter. When contacting our office regarding financial aid inquiries, you must provide your TC ID number (T########). If you believe that you should have already received an award letter at this time, please check your Spam/Junk folder to ensure that your e-mail account settings did not filter your award letter to that folder.
I am a continuing student. When will I receive my financial aid package?
Please note that if you are a continuing student with a completed scholarship application already on file with our office, you do not need to complete another application for the remainder of your program. Continuing students may not see an award letter as early as new students, though we make every effort to get this information out as soon as possible. We started sending award letters out on March 15. Because scholarship decisions are rolling (see below for further information), we will continue sending out new award letters throughout the spring and summer for students who plan to attend in the 2013-2014 academic year.
For students who have completed a FAFSA, a letter detailing your federal aid may arrive sooner than the letter detailing your scholarship. If you receive a scholarship at a later time, we will send you a revised award letter. Similarly, if you have received a scholarship but have yet to file a FAFSA or have only recently filed a FAFSA in the last few days, the letter detailing your scholarship may arrive sooner than the letter detailing your federal aid.
If you have received an aid package containing only federal aid, this could mean that a scholarship decision has not yet been made for you; it may also mean that you are not going to receive a scholarship. Any changes or updates to your aid package will be communicated to you via a revised award letter. The absence of a revised award letter means that there has not been a change to your aid package. International students will not see federal aid on their award packages.
If you have no financial aid package on file (i.e. no scholarship and no federal aid), you will not receive an award letter. When contacting our office regarding financial aid inquiries, you must provide your TC ID number (T########). If you believe that you should have already received an award letter at this time, please check your Spam/Junk folder to ensure that your e-mail account settings did not filter your award letter to that folder.
Please read on for more information regarding the scholarship application process here at Teachers College. Click here for further information regarding institutional scholarships.
Scholarship Application Process
As of the 2012-2013 academic year, new, continuing, and deferred students are only required to complete an application for scholarship at Teachers College once. There will no longer be a separate online scholarship application each year; once a student has done their application (either, the previous online version OR the scholarship section of the new admissions application), it will continue to roll over from one aid year to the next. The requirement will be satisfied for the entire duration of the student's academic program.
If you are a new applicant to the College, please be sure to complete the scholarship section of your application for admission. If you are a continuing student or a deferred student and you have not completed the scholarship application, please contact our office.