Receiving Your Aid

Follow these steps to complete the final requirements needed to disburse your offered financial aid.

Step 1:

• Review your Virginia Tech Award Package. 
• Spend some time reading about the Loans and (or) Grants you have been offered.

Step 2:

• Complete the Entrance Interview and Master Promissory Note in order to receive the Stafford Loans you have been offered. Perkins Loan Borrowers will need to complete a different entrance interview and promissory note in addition to a yearly questionnaire.

Step 3:

• Make sure you are enrolled in 12 credit hours or more as a full time student (for graduate students full time is considered 9 hours or more).  
• If you are not going to be enrolled as a full-time student, please promptly fill out the 2009-2010 Aid Change Form (PDF | 462KB)

Step 4:

• Ensure that there are no other outstanding processing requirements or holds on your account. 
• Check academic progress appeals, student processing requirements (i.e. scholarship thank you letters, etc), and financial holds from Bursar’s office through Hokie SPA or My VT.  
• See our page on  Possible Reasons for Financial Aid Delays or Refunds to help figure out the reason, should a hold be placed on your account.

Step 5:

• Complete the FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Disclosure) on the Hokie SPA to specify the individuals to whom you authorize the release your financial aid information. We can not release a student's financial aid information to anyone other than the student and individuals they have authorized to have access (including the student's parent or guardian).

Step 6:

• Notify our office of any other outside aid (i.e. scholarships) by submitting a 2009-2010 Reporting Form for Scholarships and Other Assistance (PDF | 344KB)

Step 7:

• Maintain Reasonable Academic Progress throughout the semester in order to retain eligibility for financial aid for following years.