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Deadline for Financial Aid
Remember...and take seriously the following application deadline:
The Scholarship Committee and the Associate Dean of Enrollment
Management will first deliberate on those students whose files are
complete by the deadline. Students who file materials after the
established deadlines will receive lower awards due to reduced availability
of funds.
Required Financial Aid Materials Checklist
Financial Aid Procedures
As an International student interested in applying for scholarship,
you are required to complete the College Board CSS PROFILE
Form. In addition, you are required to submit all income
tax and earnings statements related to the information on this form.
These documents must be officially translated into English.
This is a new financial aid requirement for the 2010-2011
academic year. Filing the CSS PROFILE Form (Manhattan
School of Music’s code is 2396): This is not a free form.
Manhattan School of Music uses the information on this form, along
with your audition score and your admission materials, to determine
your eligibility for Manhattan School of Music Scholarship or the
President’s Award. Your application process begins by completing
one of the PROFILE Registration methods: The preferred method is
connecting to the Internet at www.collegeboard.com. On the home
page under the link “For Students," click on CSS/Profile
Online, in the upper right-hand corner under "Pay For College",
then choose the current year. You can connect and complete the application
immediately any time of day (you will need a valid credit card).
Online registration is $5 nonrefundable, and $18 for each school
that you designate to receive your PROFILE data.
The College Board will electronically transmit your PROFILE data
to us. The PROFILE application is required of all international
students. If you have any questions about or need
help with the CSS PROFILE, you may email the College Board at help@cssprofile.org
or you can call 305-829-9793.
Once we have received the processed results of your PROFILE application,
a record will be created on our financial aid database. We will
track all received materials and send you a letter indicating all
other documents (listed at the top of this page) that we will require
for a complete application.
Parent information is required of all dependent students. Students
who are required, but fail to complete the parent information, will
not be brought to the Scholarship Committee for deliberation. All
financial aid documents, along with your audition score and your
admission materials, will be used to evaluate your eligibility for
Manhattan School of Music Scholarship or the President’s Award.
We will notify you if you are missing information, but valuable
time will have been lost, and any scholarship that you may be deemed
eligible to receive most likely will be less than if the information
had been provided by the deadline.
IT WILL CAUSE A DELAY IF YOU DO NOT...
- SIGN and DATE all application materials. Regulations require
signatures; therefore missing signatures may create processing
delays and may even require that the forms be returned to you.
- Answer ALL questions. If a question does not apply to you, enter
N/A or 0. Questions left blank may require you to be contacted
for the answer and a reprocessing of the form.
IMPORTANT NOTES
- If you are applying for need-based merit MSM Scholarship, you
are required to complete the entire scholarship application process.
If you want to be considered for the no-need, merit-only President’s
Award, please direct a letter to the Office of Financial Aid indicating
such. Please keep in mind that the President’s Award amounts generally
range from US $1000 - $5000 maximum.
- If you are not awarded scholarship, there are loan opportunities
available. If you are an undergraduate student, you will be required
to have a U.S. citizen for a cosigner. Borrowing amounts range
from US $1000 up to the total cost of education. If you are a
graduate student, you can borrow US $5000 to $15,000 on your own
signature, provided you have a U.S. Social Security number.
- If you or your parents feel that the family's 2010 income will
be drastically different from the reported 2009 income on the
CSS PROFILE Form, you must submit a letter of explanation to Amy
Anderson, Associate Dean of Enrollment Management. Reasons for
drastic change in income include unemployment, separation, divorce,
serious illness, or death. In the letter please project, to the
best of your ability, the new 2010 anticipated taxable and non-taxable
income from any and all sources. Please provide documentation
of these circumstances, such as a letter from your employer, medical
documents, a separation agreement or divorce decree.
- We strongly recommend that you make photocopies of all application
materials that you submit to the Office of Admission and Financial
Aid. Create a file at home that will resemble the file we have
in our office. This will make any conversations we have more productive
and beneficial.
AND LAST…
Please, ASK QUESTIONS if you do not understand any
part of our application process. We understand that the scholarship/financial
aid process is, at times, frustrating and intimidating. We want
to assist and support you from start to finish. It is our goal
to make applying for scholarship and financial aid as pleasant and
painless as possible. When students and parents ask how they can
speed up the process, we always begin by saying, “provide all the
required information by the required deadline, and be as accurate
as possible when completing your forms - if you do your part, we
are able to do our part.” If you have suggestions or comments,
or if you experience problems, please call our office at 917-493-4463.
Financial Aid counselors are available to assist you. If necessary,
you may schedule either a phone or in-person appointment.
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