After Your Offer Letter
Your part in the financial aid process doesn't end when you receive your offer letter. Depending on your situation, you may have to complete additional steps. Our financial aid checklist will help you finish the process. To find out what final steps you need to complete, visit goWMU. You can check the status of your financial aid anytime.
Financial aid adjustment form
Federal Subsidized Loans and/or Federal Unsubsidized Loans in a ‘Offered” status require that you either accept or decline the loan and then submit your decision. If you wish to accept either loan for an amount less than the offered amount or to modify a Federal Subsidized Loan and/or Federal Unsubsidized Loan that you have already accepted or declined, please complete the Online Student Financial Aid Adjustment Form. All other aid that is not already “Accepted” will be updated to “Accepted” upon your enrollment in classes for the aid year.
Parents can reduce or cancel PLUS loans by utilizing the Parent PLUS Adjustment form located on our Forms page.
If graduating at the end of summer or fall, rather than the end of spring, we will recalculate your aid based upon that enrollment period. If you are going to be a graduate student at WMU, you must notify us in order to receive financial aid at the graduate level.
Scholarship resource form
You must notify our office of scholarships, assistantships, tuition benefits and other resources received from sources outside the state and WMU. To do this, complete the scholarship resource form and return it to Student Financial Aid. Private donor scholarships will be indicated as estimated offers until the check from the donor is received by our office.
Electronic Master Promissory Note
The Electronic Master Promissory Note (E-MPN) can be used to receive multiple federal Direct Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loans. By signing the E-MPN, you are receiving a line of credit for the maximum amount of loans for which you are eligible, not to exceed the maximum allowable under the Higher Education Act. If you are a first-time borrower, you must complete an E-MPN. If notification of the completion of the E-MPN is not received within 30 days of your acceptance of the loan or at least 30 days prior to your last date of enrollment, your loans may be canceled.
Loan entrance counseling
If you are a first-time borrower of a federal Direct Loan at WMU, you must complete entrance counseling. We will be notified electronically that you have successfully completed entrance counseling. Your loans will not pay toward your tuition and fees or other WMU charges until entrance counseling has been completed. If you are enrolled and have not completed entrance counseling within at least 30 days after your loans have been offered, your loans may be canceled.
Adding authorized and proxy users
At WMU, we respect the privacy of our students and their families. In an effort to ensure that personal information is not provided to any unauthorized user as required by federal law, students may choose to set a parent or third party up as an authorized or proxy user. Federal laws and regulations require students to authorize individuals whom they wish to have access to their information with the following options:
- Authorized Users have access to billing information. These are managed by Accounts Receivable at (269) 387-4141.
- Proxy Users have access to financial aid and academic information. These are managed by the Registrar's Office at (269) 387-4300.
Visit goWMU to provide proxy and authorized user access.
Additional funds
Financial aid doesn't always cover your entire cost. If you need additional help, you might need to consider private alternative loans.
