It is a federally-mandated requirement that a financial aid history be provided for each transfer student whether the student received aid previously or not. This is because some forms of aid have cumulative limits that have to be taken into consideration when the aid award is made. All institutions are required to hold up processing until the financial aid history is on file. When this happens, UWSP tries to help you meet this requirement by contacting the most recent prior school requesting a transcript from them. We send them a customized financial aid transcript form with your name on it for them to complete and return.
Most schools respond to our request directly and promptly.
We notify transfer students later in the year if the school has failed to respond to our request so that the student can follow up with them. The lack of a required aid history will hold up your aid application from further processing until the requirement is met.