April 3, 2024
The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships would like to personally thank you for your continued patience and understanding as we all navigate towards a new academic year. We understand that there are many questions surrounding Financial Aid award timing and want to keep you updated on where The Citadel stands now.
While we have begun to receive FAFSA data from the Department of Education (ED), it will take us some time to load and test our systems to compile accurate financial aid packages. ED discovered and are now addressing issues that are preventing FAFSA’s from being processed. We are hoping to send financial aid packages starting in mid-late April and will notify you via email once available. Students will need to log in to their Lesesne Gateway Portal to view financial aid award packages.
The FAFSA Submission Summary is now available to students who have had their FAFSA processed. This summary of their FAFSA application can be viewed on their studentaid.gov accounts. Once the FAFSA has been processed, they will receive email updates as ED clears the submission backlog.
If you check your FAFSA status and see “In Review”, that indicates your FAFSA has not been processed yet by the Department of Education. You can check back as often as you like. Please continue to monitor your citadel.edu email and our website for the most up to date information.
We know this information is critical to your college choice, and we are doing everything we can to get the information to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you have questions, please contact us at 843-953-5187 or at financial_aid@citadel.edu. We’re here to help in any way we can.