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Special Services for Financial Aid Recipients

For aid recipients who show a high degree of financial need, services are available in the following areas: (1) orientation fee waivers, and (2) tutorial assistance programs. Information is available from the Office of Student Financial Services.

Other Services Not Based on Financial Need

Short-term loans are available to students for emergency expenses related to educational costs. In addition, the office helps students and their spouses find part-time, temporary, or full-time employment with no charge to the student or the University employer. Information about these services is available at the Office of Student Financial Services.

Requirements for Student Borrowers

Mandatory interviews. Prior to receiving the first disbursement of a Federal Subsidized or Unsubsidized Stafford Loan or Federal Perkins Loan at the University of Texas at Austin, student borrowers must complete a loan entrance interview, which includes information about their obligations, rights, and privileges as borrowers. In addition, before withdrawal or graduation from the University, student loan recipients under these programs must complete an exit interview, including additional information about their repayment obligations and about the consequences of failure to repay.

Identification and release of official transcript. Records of students who have received loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Programs are identified to the Office of the Registrar. Students in default on loans from these programs may not obtain an official academic transcript.

Tuition Refunds and Repayment of Financial Aid

Refunds for students receiving Title IV funding who withdraw from the University.[1] A student who is receiving financial assistance from any Title IV program and withdraws in the first semester of attendance at the University is entitled to a refund of tuition and fees and University housing charges according to the following schedule:

Long Session
Official withdrawal date	Percentage Refund
Prior to the sixth class day	100% less $15.00 matriculation fee
The sixth through the fifteenth class days	90%
The sixteenth through the twenty-fifth class days	80%
The twenty-sixth through the thirtieth class days	70%
The thirty-first through the thirty-fifth class days	60%
The thirty-sixth through the forty-fifth class days	50%
The forty-sixth through the fiftieth class days	40%
After the fiftieth class day	none
Summer Session
Official withdrawal date	Percentage Refund
Prior to the first class day	100% less $15.00 matriculation fee
The first and second class days	90%
The third through the seventh class days	80%
The eighth class day	70%
The ninth and tenth class days	60%
The eleventh through the thirteenth class days	50%
The fourteenth through the sixteenth class days	40%
After the sixteenth class day	none

Any student receiving financial assistance may have part of the calculated refund credited to the student aid programs from which the student was paid. The remaining refund, if any, will be disbursed to the student.

Federal regulations require that refunds due the student aid programs be credited in the following order:

1. Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loan
2. Federal Subsidized Stafford Loan
3. Federal Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS)
4. Federal Perkins Loan
5. Federal Pell Grant
6. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
7. Other Title IV programs
8. Non-Title IV programs

Non-Title IV programs are refunded in the following order:

1. State grants
2. Institution grants
3. State loans
4. Scholarships, if specified by donor

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