Student Aid
Understanding Your Offer
Understand your Financial Aid Offer in LionPATH. How to navigate and next steps.
Financial Aid Offer
Your financial aid notification will provide you with instructions on how to access your Financial Aid Offer, which will list all of the student financial aid (scholarships, grants, work-study, and loans) for which you qualify, based on your eligibility.
Your financial aid amounts are estimated, subject to change, and non-negotiable.
Federal and state grant amounts are contingent upon final federal funding and state appropriations.
The College Financing Plan, a standardized financial aid notification designed by the federal government, to compare financial aid packages and costs between universities. Access your Financing Plan within your initial 'Financial Aid Offer'.
Penn State is unable to meet the full demonstrated financial need of most students. Federal Direct Subsidized and/or Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan(s) are offered as part of your financial aid package.
Frequently Asked Questions
Students must have earned micro-scholarships, as entered and tracked on their RaiseMe portfolio, by January 1 of the year they plan to start at Penn State.
Students may earn up to $4,000 per year in Penn State RaiseMe funds, for a total of $16,000 over four years.
Once enrolled at Penn State, students must maintain at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA, be in good standing with the University, and be enrolled in a degree-granting program to remain eligible for Penn State RaiseMe funds.
The work-study payroll schedule can be found here. Information relating to FWS payroll schedules will be provided to all supervisors via email listserv communication prior to the beginning of each semester. Supervisors are expected to adhere to the established payroll approval schedules. Late payroll approvals should be submitted within 30 days. Processing delayed beyond that point risks a department’s assumption of 100% of the FWS students’ wages.
Outside Scholarship Form Policy When you apply for scholarships through an outside agency, they often require you to provide information about your costs, aid offer, and FAFSA. You can print this information directly from LionPATH. Student Self-Service You can find the links to view your Financial Aid Budget and Financial Aid Offer Letter in your LionPATH Student Home Base under the Financial Aid Offer. You will need to print the information and submit it to the scholarship agency. Certification of Forms by our office In the event that the scholarship agency is unwilling to accept the information that you have printed from LionPATH, requests to complete scholarship forms can be reviewed on a case by case basis with the understanding that the form can only be provided to the student for submission to the respective agency. Similar consideration may be given to students who need to submit their scholarship forms before the information is available in LionPATH.