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Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 2:08 am
by BroncoHawkeye
I logged onto CUConnect the other day and way able to view and accept/decline my financial aid, so I'm thinking that it'll just take some time before all the entering students can do the same.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:07 pm
by doza
Pufer wrote:Scholarships always come through at the last possible minute, so don't worry if yours hasn't shown up yet. It probably won't until sometime in August.
Ah, good to know. Even though I already submitted my deposit, I am a bit anxious about whether or not I'll get a scholarship. Do you think that calling the Admissions Office to ask about a potential scholarship would help? Or just be a waste of time?

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 5:17 pm
by JTX
is anyone ITT accepted off waitlist?

LSN is a dearth of information regarding acceptances off the waitlist. trying to feel the situation out... looking for #'s, dates, time on waitlist. please PM me if you have the time. thanks.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:17 am
by ja57047
doza wrote:
Pufer wrote:Scholarships always come through at the last possible minute, so don't worry if yours hasn't shown up yet. It probably won't until sometime in August.
Ah, good to know. Even though I already submitted my deposit, I am a bit anxious about whether or not I'll get a scholarship. Do you think that calling the Admissions Office to ask about a potential scholarship would help? Or just be a waste of time?
I called and asked about scholarships a few weeks before the first deposits were due and I didn’t really get much info. I was basically told that if I get a scholarship then they will let me know. Then I sent them a scholarship negotiation email about 10 days before the original first deposits were due. I didn’t get a response but I still sent my deposit. I got a scholarship about 10 days after that.

Even if it's a waste of time, I think you should try something for peace of mind if nothing else.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:36 pm
by j.wellington
Good to see I'm no the only one having trouble with MyCUinfo. I think they sent out all the "view your financial aid" e-mails at one time despite not having everyone's online account up and running. For what it's worth, one of the IT people I spoke with said that graduate students' info is only uploaded once a week on Fridays.

I'm a little surprised at all the grumbling about un-returned e-mails. I've sent quite a few e-mails about different things and got a response within a day or so every time. They didn't always have a definitive answer for me, but the overall communication was really good.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:25 am
by adora
Found a place in Erie yesterday! Can't wait to move!

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 10:01 pm
by yellowfin
adora wrote:Found a place in Erie yesterday! Can't wait to move!

Why Erie? There's not much out there and it's about a half hour commute from the school, but I'd imagine it's less expensive than Boulder. Not saying it's a bad choice, just curious about the decision.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:28 pm
by martin024
Just signed a lease for boulder apartment...gettin' pretty official now. :P

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:43 pm
by adora
yellowfin wrote:
adora wrote:Found a place in Erie yesterday! Can't wait to move!

Why Erie? There's not much out there and it's about a half hour commute from the school, but I'd imagine it's less expensive than Boulder. Not saying it's a bad choice, just curious about the decision.
Well...our place isn't really in the town (technically it is). It's kind of between Lafayette and Erie. In fact, though it's within Erie city limits, I think it's actually closer to Lafayette...

It's right off of Baseline. Good access to bus lines. And by car, it was only about 20 minutes to the law school. That'll depend on traffic, of course.

We looked all over-Longmont, Boulder, Gunbarrel area, etc., and just fell in love with the place. It was the only one we looked at in Erie, and probably wouldn't have checked it out (just because it's in Erie), but as it turned out, the location was actually great.

But the area does freak me out. It's a condo community. Lots of golf courses, and the places are all the same.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:32 am
by adora
Any updates on the issue of viewing financial aid? I'm getting bounced around between a few departments. They don't seem to have a clue what's going on.

Can anyone view/accept/decline stuff?

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:35 am
by the lantern
I'm in the same boat as you, adora. I emailed the IT dept and they told me to contact admissions. I'm going to give it a couple more weeks then I'm going to actually start caring about it. Hopefully now that school is done they will fix all these administrative problems.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 12:08 pm
by j.wellington
Same same. I gave up trying to get an answer from the school and figured I'd just check every few days to see if it changed.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 12:19 pm
by adora
Yeah, I s'pose it's still pretty early. I won't worry about it just yet.

For those applying for GradPlus loans, when are you going to do that? We go through CU, right?

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 12:47 pm
by the lantern
Yikes, I know nothing about applying for GradPLUS loans.. I thought that was all part of the FAFSA. Guess I better start looking around for some info.

edit: There is a link on the CU law financial aid page with a link: http://www.colorado.edu/finaid/loansforms.html has a link for the application.

Question: It recommends you check your credit report to make sure there aren't any errors since the loans are dependent on a credit check. I checked mine with Equifax. It looked fine (credit score: 732, no delinquincies in the past two years... this is pretty good right?). Do I also need to check it with Transunion and whatever the other one is, or is one of them enough?

another question: It asks for a specific amount you want to borrow on the GradPLUS loan form. Do I need to actually figure out a budget and put down an actual dollar amount that I'm sure of, or will you be given the option to accept only part of the loan (if for example I apply for 10,000 but only end up needing 9,000, or something like that)? I'll probably email the financial aid office if none of you all know for sure.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 5:15 pm
by j.wellington
They will tell you the maximum we're eligible to borrow and you can take out as much or as little as you want up to that point. I believe the loans are dispersed early on in the academic year, but if you end up needing less than what you borrow you could just dump the remainder back into the loan payoff system before any substantial interest accrues.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 3:31 pm
by J24Cash
Is anyone still having problems with CU Connect? It allows me to log into my page but when I click the financial aid tab and try to log into my cu info it says account not provisioned. I tried emailing IT about a week ago, but still no response.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:26 pm
by adora
MyCUInfo finally started working for me! Yay!

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:45 am
by KmissP
This appears to be the 1L schedule for Fall 2010. The last class 2:30-3:50 appears to be EITHER Monday-Wednesday ORTuesday-Thursday... not all four.

Monday
9:30-10:25
11-11:55
1-2:10
2:30-3:50

Tuesday
10:25-11:35
2:30-3:50

Wednesday
9:30-10:25
11-11:55
1-2:10
2:30-3:50

Thursday
10:25-11:35
1-2:10
2:30-3:50

Friday
10:25-11:35

Sources:
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http://lawweb.colorado.edu/courses/prin ... term=20107

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:45 pm
by the lantern
So how do we go about getting football tickets now that we are in the PAC 10 :)

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:58 pm
by rekopter
the lantern wrote:So how do we go about getting football tickets now that we are in the PAC 10 :)
We won't start in the Pac-? until 2012. But it is easy to get season football tickets. They are about $125ish and include the mile-high showdown game against CSU in Denver.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:45 pm
by j.wellington
Not a huge football fan, but with the Pac-10 thing it'll be great to see some real basketball talent roll through Boulder. I imagine those tickets aren't in too high demand.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:19 pm
by CMR
Congrats guys - I'm a current transfer applicant to CUB, and it's one of my top hopefuls.

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:53 pm
by adora
So...where are you guys in the financial aid process? Anyone doing the gradplus stuff yet?

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:21 pm
by j.wellington
Related question: I finally got my financial aid info to show up online, but it's only showing available loans, not scholarships. Is that how it's supposed to be or is something I should follow up with?

Re: Colorado Class of 2013

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:38 pm
by adora
j.wellington wrote:Related question: I finally got my financial aid info to show up online, but it's only showing available loans, not scholarships. Is that how it's supposed to be or is something I should follow up with?
I emailed the office about this, and was told that it'll show up whenever the Office of Financial Aid receives all necessary documents. I'm not sure what, exactly, that means...and I'm wondering about how to go about the grad plus stuff - I'm hoping that my scholarship info will show up before I deal with this, but if not, I assume I'll just subtract the amount of my scholarship?

When are you all planning on accepting aid/applying for gradplus?