ELIGIBILITY FOR AID:
To be eligible to apply for UUA financial aid grants, all applicants
must be in Aspirant or Candidate status. Full-time and part-time
students are eligible to apply. Those planning to be in an internship
are eligible to apply, even if they will not be enrolled in theological
school during the internship. Those in aspirant status have one year of
eligibility for financial aid prior to arranging an interview with an
RSCC. Aspirants will be eligible for subsequent financial aid as long as
an RSCC interview has been scheduled. Aspirants who have been denied
candidacy status by an RSCC are not eligible for financial aid.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
http://www.uua.org/documents/mpl/credentialing/financial_aid.doc Word
version of forms
http://www.uua.org/documents/mpl/credentialing/financial_aid.pdf pdf
version of forms
1) All forms are to be received no later than 5pm, April 15th, 2011
and sent to the Ministerial Credentialing Office, 25 Beacon St., Boston,
MA 02108.
2) All application requests MUST be complete. Incomplete applications
will not be considered.
3) Have your financial aid officer fill out the Financial Aid
Application 2011-2012 form.
4) Have a Unitarian Universalist minister in full fellowship (please,
not a faculty member from your theological school) fill out a
recommendation letter form.
5) Have your faculty advisor or another faculty member fill out a
recommendation letter form.
6) In addition, students (except Canadians, and those who are in
internship but not students) are required to submit a Student Aid Report
containing a calculation of the Expected Family Contribution (EFC)
ordinarily obtainable from one's theological school upon completion of
the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms available on
the web (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov <http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/> ) or from
the U.S. Department of Education.
7) You will receive notification of financial aid award decisions by
May 30th, 2011.
If you are planning to apply for financial aid from the UUA, please read
over the guidelines and instructions very carefully. It is your
responsibility to make sure that all forms and letters of reference are
into the Ministerial Credentialing Office by the deadline, which is no
later than 5pm, April 15th, 2011. We do not have the capacity to track
outstanding missing or incomplete materials. Every year, some applicants
are disappointed to learn that they are denied a scholarship due to an
incomplete application. Please feel free to contact Christine May by
email to learn if all of your materials have been received.
Sincerely,
Chris May, Coordinator
Ministerial Credentialing Office
UUA
25 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108
617-948-6403 office
617-742-2875 Fax
http://www.uua.org/leaders/leadership/ministerialcredentialing/
