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Higher Education institutions are required to base Aid Packages on the FAFSA. Specifically, financial aid and scholarship offices review the Student Aid Index (SAI) determined by the completed FAFSA. Prior to 2024, the SAI was known as EFC or the Estimated Family Contribution. Once Langston University receives completed FAFSA’s and the SAI, they review all federal and state aid the student will receive and assign any institutional (LU) aid. The goal is to provide students and/or their parent(s)/guardian(s) with the best possible aid package.

For the 2024-2025 academic year, the “Better FAFSA” enhancements will make a positive impact for thousands of individuals including Langston University students. An estimated 665,000 additional students nationwide will qualify for Federal Pell Grants, making college more affordable for many. Over 1.7 million more students will receive the maximum Pell Grant, offering substantial support to those in need.

Your financial aid package is a number of resources, Federal and Non- federal grouped together for the purpose of meeting educational cost. The goal of the Office of Financial Aid is to offer enough aid with the combined resources to cover the Cost of Attendance.

If you are contacted by Inceptia, that means your FAFSA application was selected for a process called “verification.” Inceptia is LU’s verification partner. Inceptia will work with you and your parent(s), spouse or guardian(s) to complete the verification process.

You can check the status of your 2024-2025 FAFSA form by logging in to your StudentAid.gov account and selecting your FAFSA submission from the “My Activity” section of your account Dashboard. For the 2024-2025 FAFSA form, the status of your application will be one of the following: draft, in progress, in review, action required, processed, or closed. For learn more, please review the StudentAid.gov webpage here.

In fall 2023, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form was being designed. The new version is known as The Better FAFSA. The U.S. Department of Education’s goal was to streamline the FAFSA process and make the student’s financial aid journey smoother. Unfortunately, the change to the form has resulted in unexpected FAFSA processing delays. To learn more about the process and the updated timeline for the U.S. Department of Education’s FAFSA process, click here.

This year, the FAFSA adopted a procedure that allowed individuals to update and correct their FAFSA forms. Unfortunately, all versions of an individual’s FAFSA are kept. This has led to multiple versions of a student’s FAFSA being sent to higher education institutions. These universities and colleges have to wait until the FAFSA application is officially closed before reviewing all of the submitted FAFSAs, determining which one is the most recent and correct. The U.S. Department of Education just submitted the completed the FAFSAs to higher education organizations in late April.

If your FAFSA application has been selected for a process called “verification,” or if notified by Inceptia, your family is required to submit certain documents to Langston University to complete the FAFSA review process. Inceptia is our verification partner. If your FAFSA application has been selected, you will be contacted by Inceptia. To learn more about the company and the verification process, please click here.

You can check the status of your 2024–25 FAFSA form on StudentAid.gov. To check your status, do the following:

1. Log in using your StudentAid.gov account username and password.
2. Navigate to your account Dashboard.
3. Select “2024-25 FAFSA Form” from the “My Activity” page.

The status of your application will be one of the following:

• In Review: You have submitted your form and your application is still processing.
• Processed: Your application was processed successfully. No further action is needed.
• Action Required: Your application requires further action from you or your contributor(s). In some cases, you may need to contact your college or university.

Beginning with the 2024-2025 award year, a student may qualify for a Pell Grant in one of three ways: Maximum Pell Grant (Max Pell), Minimum Pell Grant (Min Pell), or Calculated Pell Grant, based on SAI (Calculated Pell = Max Pell – SAI). To learn more about how the SAI (Student Aid Index) is calculated and Pell Eligibility, please review this StudentAid.gov webpage here.

Langston University will provide each student’s award or aid package via their LU student email. Students should regularly check their Langston University student email account beginning in late May.  Parents or Guardians who have Proxy access can view their student’s Aid Package through the student portal. Click here to learn how to set up Proxy access.

Students may give their parent or guardian FERPA Proxy access by following the detailed instructions on this Langston University web page – https://langston.edu/popups/proxy-access/

You can access the Langston University Daily Financial Aid Zoom meeting at https://calendly.com/facheckin/meet-with-financial-aid

The Student Aid Index (SAI) formally known as Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) is located here.

Students and their parent(s) or guardian(s) can access the Federal Student Aid Estimator at https://studentaid.gov/aid-estimator/. On this StudentAid.gov webpage, the Federal Student Aid Estimator provides an estimate of how much federal student aid the student may be eligible to receive. These estimates are based on the Student Aid Index (SAI), an index to determine federal student eligibility.

The issue alerts related to the 2024-2025 FAFSA form have included signatures removed upon return to the saved form, school names being truncated, incorrect Pell eligibility information, inability to proceed through form after entering Student Identity, and parents unable to access the form. To see an updated list of open alerts, please visit this StudentAid.gov webpage.

A contributor is an individual who is helping a student fill out the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Contributors may include the student’s parents, the spouse of the student’s parent, or student’s spouse. To learn more about the Contributor section, visit this StudentAid.gov webpage: https://studentaid.gov/apply-for-aid/fafsa/filling-out/help/contributor-information-list.