Award Letter

Once your financial aid application materials have been processed, and your aid eligibility determined, you will be required to logon to e-Connect to accept your financial aid award.  You may decrease or decline the amount of funding you were awarded, and we will then revise your financial aid package and send you an updated award letter.

An accepted financial aid award letter (both original and/or revised) must be received before any funds can be disbursed.  The disbursement date on your financial aid award letter is the date Enrollment Services begins the disbursement process.  After your tuition and fees are paid, funds are issued to you for the amount of financial aid that exceeds your charges.  If you have any questions regarding your funding sources, please click the appropriate link below.

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IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THE AID THAT HAS BEEN OFFERED TO YOU WITHIN THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, THAT OFFER MAY BE WITHDRAWN.

When you complete your federal student loan entrance interview.  You will need the names, addresses and telephone numbers of your parents and three other references, as well as your own information, in order to complete the form.  If you close out of the entrance interview before completing and submitting all required information, the information you did provide will be lost, and you will have to start again when you come back to the website.  You are required to complete the federal student loan entrance interview each year you receive funding.

If you are being offered funding through the:

Federal Direct Student Loan Program for the first time at UTMB, you will need to complete a Master Promissory Note (MPN).  If you have previously borrowed from the FDSL program at UTMB, this year's amount will be added to the amount you previously borrowed.

Federal Perkins Loan program as part of your financial aid package for the first time, you will need to print, complete and return the Federal Perkins Master Promissory Note (a link will be provided once you log onto e-Connect) and you will also receive your Truth-N-Lending Statements in the mail.  Please return the PMPN and TIL Statements to Enrollment Services.  If you have previously borrowed from the Perkins Loan Program at UTMB, this year's amount will be added to the amount you previously borrowed.

Institutional Loans that required a signed, paper promissory note and truth-in-lending statement, they will be mailed to you.  Once all documents are completed, please return them to the Enrollment Services office.

Federal Work-Study (FWS) as part of your financial aid package, the forms you need to complete in order to participate will be on our website on July 1.  Once you have found a position, please drop your completed forms at the Enrollment Services office.

External Lenders or have applied for funding through any other lender, please go to that lender's website or visit http://www.utmb.edu/enrollmentservices/prospect/financial_aid/ExternalLenders.htm and complete the online application form(s) or contact the lenders directly.  Please bear in mind that external loan lenders will usually complete a credit check to determine your eligibility for funding.  You may be asked to provide a co-signer, or be denied funding based on your credit history, or lack thereof.  If you are not approved for an external loan, Enrollment Services cannot change the lender's decision.

Additional Information

If you have requested that your funds be sent Direct Deposit (ACH), the funds should be in your account two to three business days after the disbursement date.  If you want your funds electronically sent to your bank account, please go to http://www.utmb.edu/accounting/forms/bursar/studentdd.pdf, complete the Direct Deposit Authorization Form, and submit it to the Bursar's Office at 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0117.  If you have not requested your funds to be sent ACH, paper checks are usually mailed the first business day following the disbursement date.

If you have additional aid eligibility and would like to discuss funding options, please call or visit one of our Enrollment Services specialists.