All admitted students are considered scholarships upon admission to the Brown School. The Brown School scholarships include a combination of merit and need-based awards that recognize the variety of strengths, experiences, endeavors, and personal histories our students offer. Students typically receive notification of these scholarship awards when they receive their letter of admission.
If you are a U.S. Citizen, you may apply for federal financial aid (loans, work-study) by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for each academic year.
International students are considered for Brown School scholarships upon admission. For more information regarding scholarships, please contact our Office of Admissions and Recruitment. Per federal guidelines, students must be U.S. Citizens or permanent residents to be eligible for any federal loans and federal work-study.
Our school code is 002520. You do not need to specify the Brown School.
There are no formal deadlines for completing federal financial aid applications. However, we encourage you to file the applications as soon as you receive them. The FAFSA results (if the application is submitted online) require 2-3 weeks of processing time. Once the results are received, the Brown School requires 4-6 weeks of processing time to complete the packaging of federal financial aid.
Financial aid aid (federal & institutional) will not be credited to your account more than 10 days prior to the start of classes, as required by financial aid regulations. Before your financial aid can post to your university account, you must be registered for sufficient class hours to be considered eligible for the aid.
If all of your federal required documents are completed (i.e. master promissory note, loan entrance counseling, etc.), you expect your refund a few days before the first day of classes.
Electronic refunds to your personal checking account can be arranged. Please log on to your WebSTAC account and complete the online process for Direct Deposit under Billing Records. If a student does not set up direct deposit, refund checks may be mailed to your most current address or picked up at the main Student Financial Services office on the second floor of the Sumers Welcome Center.
If a Federal Title IV aid recipient withdraws from school before the end of the academic semester, Washington University must refund (send loan funds back to the lender) the unearned (amount of time in the academic semester that the student did not attend) amount of Title IV funds. Unearned Title IV funds will be returned to the Title IV program. Students will be responsible for any disbursed but unearned portion of their Title IV funds.