Awarding Without Application Data

Students who have no application data (ISIR, PROFILE, or institutional application) can be awarded. A student is considered to have no application if the student has no application data or if the student has an application that is different to that indicated in Packaging Data Source field on the Financial Aid Defaults page. For example, if you specify Federal for your packaging data source and the student only has a PROFILE application, the student is considered to have no application.

A student who has no application, as previously defined, is considered by Packaging to be ineligible for federal funds, except a PLUS loan. If you try to award federal funds (except a PLUS loan) to a student who has no application you get the message, In NO APP status. Only conditional, No Effect, or PLUS Item Types are valid. When a PLUS loan is being awarded to an undergraduate student who has no application, Packaging bypasses all federal eligibility checks, including the dependency check, and the PLUS loan is awarded.

Generally when awarding students who have no application, a budget is not required. However, students with no application who are awarded a PLUS loan must have a budget.

To award a Financial Aid Item Type to a student who has no application data—except for PLUS Financial Aid Item Types—the Financial Aid Item Type's Meet Need/Cost attribute must be defined as Conditional, No Effect, or Cost Only and the Financial Aid Item Type's Source attribute cannot be Federal. The Meet Need/Cost attribute must be Conditional, No Effect or Cost Only because no need is calculated for the student without an application. The Source attribute must not be Federal, except for PLUS, because when awarding a federal award, Packaging requires ISIR data.

See Defining Financial Aid Item Types.

If you are packaging a student who does not have an ISIR or institutional application data in the system, when you enter any of the award entry pages you receive a message that says, "Student does not have application data." This message is informational only; you can acknowledge the message and enter the page.