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Application Process

Reminder: If you are applying for loans online, you must still fill out the confirmation sheet on the second page of your award letter from us and return it to the financial aid office.

Financial aid awards are made on a rolling basis. Accepted students will receive their application packets in the mail during the admissions cycle. Current students must reapply for financial aid each year. Applications are available at the end of January. Award letters are generally mailed to continuing students in May through July.

Financial Aid Application Instructions

1. Complete a FAFSA or Renewal FAFSA. File as soon as possible after
January 1. File early enough to allow for a 2-3 week processing time. The Pritzker School of Medicine FAFSA code is G10141.

2. Complete the Online Pritzker Financial Aid Application.

  • Incoming students must fill out the online application which was e-mailed to you or found below. To navigate within the form you may use the tab key or click into a box. To move between pages, be sure to use the next and back buttons on the form itself. Do not use the back button on your browser; if you do you will lose all of your information.
  • Remember to press the submit button on the last page of the application. This will send the application to the financial aid office.
  • If you have changes after submitting the online application, you may re-submit the application. The later application will replace the earlier submission.
  • Returning students, please use the Pritzker Financial Aid Application that was emailed to you. If you cannot find that email, please contact Lee Brauer.

3. Applicants interested in receiving Pritzker School of Medicine loans/Scholarships & Federal Title IV Funds must also complete or turn in the following surveys and forms to the financial aid office.

  1. Student's Federal Tax Return and W-2's. This is a signed copy of all pages and schedules as submitted. For the 2009-2010 academic year a signed copy of the 2008 return is required.
  2. Alien Registration Card. Permanent residents of the United States must submit a copy of both sides of their alien registration card ("green card"). This needs to be done only once during the student's enrollment.
  • Returning students must fill out the online application which was e-mailed to you.  You may interrupt and return to your work as often as you like since the application will automatically save your work.  To return to the application, click on the link which was emailed to you—the link is an unique identifier associated with your application.  If you mis-place the link, please contact David Owen at pritzkerfa@bsd.uchicago.edu.

International students wishing to be considered for Pritzker School of Medicine loans may submit a FAFSA via the Internet or submit a paper FAFSA to the Financial Aid Office including parental data. The student and his or her parents should submit a copy of the most recent tax returns with a translation and an indication of the exchange rate. If there are no tax returns, the student should submit documentation of personal and family income.

Completing Your Financial Aid Application

Congratulations on completing the steps needed to be awarded financial aid.  In the following pages you will find instructions necessary to complete the financial aid process.  You will also find brief explanations of loan types and the process of how to apply.  Included is a worksheet to help you decide how much you would like to borrow in student loans. 

Reading Your Award Letter
Loan Types
Preferred Lender List

Getting your refund via Direct Deposit

Forms to Complete and Return

These are the forms which you may need to send to us, depending on the aid you are taking. 

The Financial Aid Confirmation us what types of financial aid you are seeking, and if taking loans, form whom are you borrowing.  This form is needed if you are getting any financial assistance through the Financial Aid Office —scholarship or loan.  Please print and fill-out the form, and mail or email back to the Office of Financial Aid.

When you have selected your lender (you may use any lender you wish and for your conveneince we have reviewed and vetted four lenders found on our Preferred Lender List), please print out and email, mail or fax the Student Financial Aid Confirmation form to us. Please choose the form that matches your status in 2009-2010.

If you will be taking the no-consigner international student loan, be sure to see David Owen before applying.

If you are taking any of the Federal Stafford, Perkins or GradPlus loans or Pritzker Loans for the first time, then please print and fill out the Student Loan Administration Reference Form and mail it to:

Student Loan Administration
970 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Student Loan Administration will contact you by email to sign the promissory note for the Perkins (once during your time in medical school) or Pritzker Loans (each year).

Notifications

The Office of Financial Aid must be notified in writing if:

  1. any outside scholarships, assistantships, fellowships, or loans are awarded;
  2. any significant change in financial circumstances occurs after submission of the financial aid application; or
  3. the student's status is anything other than full-time and in good standing at Pritzker School of Medicine.

Appeals Process

A student who wishes to appeal a financial aid decision should submit a letter to the Office of Financial Aid detailing the reasons for the appeal along with supporting documentation. All appeals are considered by Committee for Financial Aid appointed annually by the Dean of Medical Education.

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Contact Financial Aid Office

FAFSA code: G10141
Tel: (773) 702-1938
Email