2024-2025 Early Financial Aid Offers

Delays in the FAFSA this year have created uncertainty for students and families on if they can afford and attend college. CMU is eliminating that uncertainty by allowing new and current students to receive an early financial aid offer. First early aid offers will begin on February 26 and continue rolling thereafter, every 3-5 business days.

Our commitment to you: This is an offer CMU will stand behind. If the data entered into the calculator accurately reflects 2022 income and household information, confirmed in the FAFSA or CASFA: CMU will honor the offer that is greater.

General Financial Aid Terms & Conditions Apply. This does not replace the FAFSA (or CASFA for eligible students), which must be completed to confirm your financial aid offer.

For Incoming Students

If you are admitted to CMU or CMU Tech complete the calculator and receive your early financial aid letter.

Enter your family's 2022 tax information and the email you used to apply to CMU.

Go to the Calculator

Click 'Send to CMU' at the end of the calculator and get your early offer!

For Current Students

If you are enrolled and previously completed the 2023-2024 FAFSA or CASFA you don't need to take any additional steps.

If you did not complete the 2023-2024 FAFSA or CASFA, enter your family's 2022 tax information and CMU email.

Go to the Calculator

Click 'Send to CMU' at the end of the calculator and get your early offer!

Early 2024-2025 Financial Aid Offers FAQs

New undergraduate admits for fall 2024 and current undergraduate students.

If they are currently enrolled and have a completed 2023-2024 FAFSA or CASFA on file: no action is needed on their part.
If they don’t have a 2023-2024 FAFSA or CASFA on file, fill out the net price calculator with their Colorado Mesa student email address and submit results

Fill out net price calculator, with the email address used on the CMU admission application and submit results

The first wave of estimated award offers will be sent the week of Feb 26-Mar 1. After that, they will be sent out every 3-5 business days.

Our team has put in a lot of time and hard work to ensure these early aid offers are accurate as possible, given that the information provided is too.

Official aid offers are scheduled to be released later this spring.

If there are discrepancies between the early and actual award offers, our team will holistically review each student’s award offers to ensure that our students are receiving the better award offer for the 2024-2025 school year, within reason. Factors we will look at: did the student accurately represent their 2022 tax information, and then other normal financial aid requirements such as enrollment, residency, housing status, etc.

Yes! This does not replace the FAFSA or CASFA and should be filled out every school year. Students won’t receive their actual award offer without one on file.

Yes! If you have been previously awarded a Merit scholarship through your admissions to CMU it will appear as part of your early aid offer.

Yes! Both Colorado Mesa University and CMU Tech students are able to receive an early aid offer by using the calculator.

You should receive your early aid offer within one to two weeks from the time you submit your calculator results. The first round of early aid offers will be generated beginning February 26.

New and continuing students will receive an email containing their early aid offer to their CMU student email address.

New students will additionally receive a physical early financial aid offer in the mail.

The calculator is set up to ask questions similar to the FAFSA/CASFA along with questions unique to the types of aid offered at CMU. These questions include:

Personal information
Citizenship status
State and county residency
Student and parent financial and asset information
Dependency status
General questions such as HS GPA and housing plans while in college

Yes! Students whose parents do not have an SSN can still complete the calculator to receive an early aid offer.

Students will still need to complete the FAFSA with their parent once they are able to do so.

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