Deposits and payments arrangements for housing are handled by the Housing Office and are usually handled separately from registration charges. So, only when there is an extra amount of aid after tuition and fees have been covered can a student plan to use posted financial aid to help cover housing costs. Hocking College owns Hocking Heights but manages two other privately-owned properties, Summit and Sycamore. Because of ownership differences, the AMS Payment Plan can only be used to help cover charges at Hocking Heights, but not at Summit or Sycamore. The Award Letter lists financial aid the student may receive.
Students often confuse pending aid with fully valid awarded aid.
Even when the Award Letter may show Student Loans as awarded, there are still a number of federal regulations that limit the immediate availability of those loan monies. So, if the Award Letter shows loans available but the Promissory Note process has not been completed, those loan monies are actually not available to use against registration charges.