Resources

Financial Aid Applications: 

• FAFSA: You must complete your FAFSA application online each year.
• Parent PLUS Loan Application 2024-2025
• FAFSA Helpful Hints
   

Additional Expense Forms: 

• Additional Expense Form (non-study abroad related)
• Additional Expense Form: College of Arts and Sciences: Art (Photography, Graphic Design); Music; Stage and Screen Arts - Computer Expense Form
• Additional Expense Form: Study Abroad

Outside Resource Form: 
Use this form to promptly notify us of any outside resources you receive, such as outside scholarships, grants, DVR assistance, etc. *Please note you will be required to log in with your Falcon ID (w# and password) to complete this form.

• Outside Resource Notification Form

Consortium Agreement: 

• Consortium Agreement

Verification Worksheets (2024-2025, fall 2024-summer 2025):

• 2024-2025 Dependent Verification Worksheet
• 2024-2025 Independent Verification Worksheet
• 2024-2025 High School Completion Status
• 2024-2025 Identity and Statement of Educational Purpose
  • Students can do either of the following:
    • Visit the Financial Aid office with an unexpired, valid, government-issued photo ID to sign the form in the office.
    • Download the form and sign form in front of a Notary. Submit signed form, along with a copy of the ID verified by the Notary, to the Financial Aid office. Download the 24-25 Identity and Statement of Educational Purpose. To be signed in presence of a notary.

Verification Worksheets (2023-2024, fall 2023-summer 2024):

• 2023-2024 Dependent Verification Worksheet
• 2023-2024 Independent Verification Worksheet
• 2023-2024 High School Completion Status

Miscellaneous Forms: 

• Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) appeal forms - GPA/Completion Rate or Max Time *Please note you will be required to log in with your Falcon ID (w# and password) to complete this form.
• Understanding Your Award Guide

Use our Net Price Calculator to estimate the cost of your education.

To see your complete history of federal student loans and grants at all schools you have attended, you can log in to your account at StudentAid.gov with your FSA ID. 

If you have borrowed any Federal Stafford Loans (both Subsidized and Unsubsidized), you must complete Stafford Loan Exit Counseling online before completing your studies at UWRF. Complete the exit counseling at StudentAid.gov.

If you have borrowed any Federal Perkins Loans, you must complete Perkins Loan Exit Counseling before completing your studies at UWRF. Contact ECSI at (888) 549-3274 if you have not received an exit letter. If you have the letter, complete the exit counseling online at www.ecsi.net.

For complete and up-to-date information on federal student loan repayment, please see Repayment Plans. This will give you information on your choices for repayment plans, estimate the amount of interest you will owe and deferment and forbearance options.

View the StudentAid.Gov Loan Repayment Checklist and Federal Student Loans handout on Repaying Your Loans.

Loan consolidation allows you to combine all your federal student loans into a single loan. There are advantages and disadvantages to consolidating your federal student loans upon graduation. Read these sections from Student Aid on the Web to help you decide whether consolidation is right for you.

• If you withdraw from all your classes during a semester, you may need to repay a portion of your financial aid that you received for that semester. Review our Return of Title IV Funds Policy.
• Review our Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy to determine the effect of withdrawing on your future financial aid eligibility.
• If you are transferring, you may need to request to have your financial aid that was awarded for a future semester canceled at UWRF in order to be awarded at another school.
• If you are considered "unofficially withdrawn" from a semester (if you do not have any grades for the semester other than "XF", which is a failing grade due to non-attendance), you may need to repay a portion of your financial aid that you received for that semester. Review our Unofficial Withdrawal Policy and Return of Title IV Funds Policy.
• If you withdraw during fall semester, your spring financial aid will be canceled. If you work with the Registrar's Office to re-enter for spring semester, you must contact our office at finaid@uwrf.edu to re-apply for spring financial aid.

Nonresident domestic students

All U.S. students, other than those who qualify under the following programs, may be eligible for the Study in Wisconsin - nonresident tuition waiver program:

• Wisconsin state resident rate
• Return to Wisconsin tuition discount
• Minnesota state reciprocity tuition rate
• Midwest Student Exchange tuition rate (students who are residents of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, or North Dakota)
• Veterans Choice Act or GI Bill or
• Other programs of tuition remission for nonresident students.
   

Additionally, students who are admitted and enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate special pricing program (e.g. Early Childhood Degree completion, MBA, etc.) do not qualify for the Study in Wisconsin - nonresident tuition waiver.

Undergraduate students must be pursuing a first bachelor's degree to qualify for this program. Graduate students must be pursuing a first master's degree or must not have received a doctoral or first professional degree considered equal to or higher than a master's degree.

Students must enroll in and successfully complete a full-time credit hour load each semester to receive the Study in Wisconsin scholarship. A full-time student is defined as:

• Undergraduate: Enroll in and successfully complete a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester.
• Graduate: Enroll in and successfully complete a minimum of eight credit hours per semester.
   

The amounts and eligibility limits for the Study in Wisconsin - nonresident tuition waiver vary depending on when the student was admitted.

Admitted for Fall 2018 or later

$1500 per semester for Fall and Spring semesters only ($3000 per academic year).

An undergraduate student may receive the Study in Wisconsin Scholarship for up to 10 semesters, or a total of 128 attempted credit hours or completion of a first bachelor's degree, whichever occurs first. Renewal is contingent on a student establishing and maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 2.500 or higher.

A graduate student may receive the Study in Wisconsin Scholarship for up to 8 semesters or a total of 72 attempted credit hours or completion of the graduate degree, whichever occurs first. Renewal is contingent on a student establishing and maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.250 or higher.

Admitted for Fall 2016 through Summer 2018

• First Year of Enrollment: $2000 ($1000 per semester) for a full-time student.
• Years 2 through 5 with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or better:  $4000 ($2000 per semester) for a full-time student.
• Years 2 through 5 with a cumulative grade point average greater than or equal to 2.0 (3.0 for graduate students) but less than 3.25: $2000 ($1000 per semester) for a full-time student.

Qualifying nonresident students admitted prior to Fall of 2016

UWRF awards $2500 ($1250 per semester) partial tuition waivers to all eligible out-of-state domestic students. Such awards are renewable provided the student maintain continuous full-time enrollment with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 or higher.

• Waivers are automatically renewable subject to funding availability and student eligibility requirements: Students must maintain continuous full-time enrollment with a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA each semester.

UWRF is dedicated to student success both in and out of the classroom and recognizes that sometimes financial emergencies can occur that may interfere with this success. The UWRF Emergency Grant/Loan Program assists with some emergencies that can negatively affect success and progress towards a degree.

How much is available and what expenses qualify? 

• Our program can provide up to $500* in the form of a grant or loan to address unplanned expenses that impede your academic progress such as utilities, housing, rent, food, meals, medical and dental expenses, prescription eyeglasses, personal automobile expenses, gasoline, public transportation costs, child care and travel due to serious illness or death in the immediate family. 
• The program cannot provide financial support for tuition, fees, books, legal fees, tobacco, alcohol and entertainment.

How do I know if I’m eligible to apply?

• Students must be currently-enrolled degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate students with six or more credits. 
• Assistance is granted without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender, disability or national origin.
• A student is eligible for up to three allocations while being a degree-seeking student at UWRF, but no more than two allocations may be received in an academic year. 
   

How do I apply? 

• Apply here to start the process. 
• The Dean of Students, in consultation with the Assistant Dean of Students, will determine if you are eligible for a grant or a loan. 
• If funding is available and your existing financial aid will not be negatively affected, your first allocation will be a grant which means you do not have to pay back that award. 
• If a grant will negatively affect your current financial aid, the money will be allocated as a loan and will be added to the following semester’s bill.  

*Emergency grants/loans will only be available if institutional funding is available to support the program.