If you are uncertain about whether you should apply for a grant, please refer to the section entitled Eligibility for a Scholarship Grant . The Financial Aid Questionnaire is mailed to entering J.D. students shortly after the offer of admission. If you are applying for a Law School grant, please submit it by March 1 or as soon as possible after admission. If 2000 tax forms are not available by March 1, please submit complete 1999 tax forms by March 1, and complete 2000 tax forms by the end of April .
Processing takes about five weeks.
The paper form requires the Federal School Code for Columbia Law School, which is E00488 . For graduate students, parental information is not used in determining eligibility for federal funding. If you need to correct the information you submitted, make the corrections to Part II of your SAR and return it to the federal processor. Otherwise, payments to the University may be considered late. Selection for this verification process is made by the federal processor and is random.