Financial Aid Appeals

When completing a FAFSA application, income information is requested from two years prior. Sometimes a family's financial situation has changed substantially from the tax year being considered on the FAFSA application. Other times, a unique circumstance exists and a student, while considered a dependent student on the FAFSA, may actually be an independent student. There are processes to appeal your FAFSA information.

The FAFSA processing center will not open for school-generated corrections, updates, or adjustments until "sometime after June 30" per the U.S. Department of Education. This means that we cannot submit the results of our appeal decisions until then.

In the meantime, our office can provide with an estimate of what we expect your revised eligibility to be. We apologize for the stress we know this will cause and want to assure you that we will work quickly to process appeal outcomes as soon as the FAFSA will allow.

Income Adjustment Appeal

Students whose family financial circumstances have changed, should consider this appeal. Please click to view more information.

Dependency Status Appeal

Students who are unable to provide parents' information on their FAFSA, should consider this appeal. Please click to view more information.

Satisfactory Academic Progress

Students who have been notified by our office that are not meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), should consider this appeal. Please click to view more information.

Did you complete a FERPA?

The FERPA Act of 1974 protects the privacy of individual students by placing restrictions on the disclosure of information. The FERPA Waiver Form (when completed and submitted by the enrolled student) gives Rowan University written permission to release/share information with parents. If you wish to give us permission to share details of your financial aid account with a parent, you must submit a FERPA Waiver directly to the Registrars's Office.