Accept Award Offer & Submit Paperwork

Students who are selected for Verification may want the Financial Aid Office to verify their financial aid before making their decision to attend the University of New Haven. The Financial Aid Office will verify a student's award offer once all required documentation has been submitted. To receive a verified award offer, students selected for verification should submit the following documents to the Financial Aid Office:

  1. Accept/Decline the Financial Aid Offered
  2. Parent's IRS Tax Return Transcript* (if FAFSA requires parent information & if the parent filed a federal tax return for the specified tax year and did not give consent for their federal tax information to be transferred into their FAFSA through the Direct Data Exchange (DDX))
  3. Student's IRS Tax Return Transcript* (if student filed a federal tax return for the specified tax year and did not give consent for their federal tax information to be transferred into their FAFSA through the Direct Data Exchange (DDX))
  4. Completed & Signed Verification Worksheet
  5. Other documents requested by the University of New Haven, except for Entrance Counseling or Master Promissory Notes for your loans
  6. Parents of dependent students, as well as independent students and their spouse, if applicable, who did not file and were not required to file a federal tax return for the specified tax year, must obtain a Verification of Non-filing letter from the IRS

* To obtain an IRS Tax Return Transcript, visit the .

Note: Accepted Financial Aid Award Offers do NOT commit the student to attending the University of New Haven. If a student decides to not accept their offer of Admission after their financial aid has been verified, the student should inform the Office of Admissions they are not planning to attend the University of New Haven. The Financial Aid Office will update their records once the information has been received from the Office of Admissions.

Loan Awards

Federal Direct Subsidized & Federal Direct Unsubsidized

Students who accept any Federal loan listed on their Financial Aid Award Offer must:

The federal government requires students to complete Entrance Counseling so they will know and understand their rights and responsibilities in borrowing a Federal Student Loan. A Master Promissory Note must be signed by the student as their promise to repay the loan.

Notes:

Students who have the Direct Subsidized and Direct Unsubsidized Loans on their Financial Aid Award Offer need only complete one Entrance Counseling session and sign only one Master Promissory Note for those two loan programs.