Resources for Admitted Students

Please contact our office. We are happy to talk with you about how the information on your financial aid form was used to calculate your award. Before contacting us, please make sure that all of the information on your forms was correct as of the day you submitted them.

After submitting your enrollment deposit, you can accept your financial aid in your applicant portal.

Yes. If you determine that you need your loans after previously rejecting them, you can request your loans be reinstated by contacting our office. If you decide that the amount you've borrowed in loans for the year is beyond what you actually need to cover your expenses, we can reduce your loans, or we can return the full amount if you decide to reject them all together.

Congratulations! Please notify us about your outside scholarships as soon as you know about them so that we can ensure that your financial aid includes them and your student account balance reflects them.

Outside scholarships will not reduce your Whitman scholarship unless your total amount of scholarships exceeds the cost of attendance at Whitman, but outside scholarships may affect your eligibility for subsidized need-based aid from the federal government, like the Federal Direct Subsidized Loan and work-study.

If your scholarships reduce your eligibility for these awards, a financial aid officer will contact you. In some cases, this may mean that you go from being work-study eligible to being a regular student employee, or that some of your subsidized loan has to be converted to unsubsidized loan.

We do not factor in your use of work-study in previous semesters or years when we determine your eligibility for work-study. Work-study is awarded based on your family's demonstrated financial need. If you have remaining financial need after being awarded other forms of financial aid, like Whitman scholarships, you will be eligible for work-study, regardless of whether you used your work-study award in previous years.

If you are a first-time borrower of Direct Loans, you will need to complete Entrance Counseling and the Master Promissory Note for your loans. You'll find more information about these requirements on the Federal Student Aid's Loans page.