If you believe that, due to your family's financial situation or other special circumstances, LMU Financial Aid should reevaluate your financial aid offer, you may file a financial aid appeal. Before submitting a financial aid appeal, please review the information below, regarding types of appeals, the potential outcomes, and the appeal process and timelines.
How to File an Appeal
- Need-based Appeal Form - for undergraduate students only who would like to report a change in their family's financial circumstances after the 2022 tax information that was provided on their FAFSA. You must complete the 2024-2025 FAFSA before filing an appeal. Make sure to use your MyLMU login credentials to begin the form.
- Merit-based Appeal - for undergraduate students only who would like to be considered for additional merit-based (scholarship) aid, you need to send an email to finaid@lmu.edu with a statement requesting consideration for additional aid. The statement can be addressed to "LMU Financial Aid." If you would like to provide supporting documents, you can submit both your statement and the documents using our Secure Document Upload portal.
What is a Financial Aid Appeal?
A financial aid appeal is a formal request to LMU Financial Aid to reconsider or reevaluate you and/or your family’s financial concerns or other special circumstances that may have an impact on your financial aid offer. If you believe that you or your family's circumstances may allow you to submit an appeal, please access and review the following appeal qualification information within this section:
- Types of Appeals
- Examples of Circumstances that May Be Considered
- Examples of Circumstances that May Not Be Considered
Potential Appeal Outcomes
Your financial aid offer will include the maximum federal, state, and institutional aid for which you are eligible. We cannot guarantee that the submission of an appeal will result in an increase to your aid offer. Even if approved, an appeal may result only in revisions to federal or state aid programs.
Appeal Decision Communication
Prospective students will be notified of appeal decisions via email. Prospective parents will receive a copy of the appeal decision email if the parent's email address is included with the appeal submitted through our appeal form. Current/continuing LMU students will receive notification of their appeal decision in PROWL.
Appeals Not Processed by LMU Financial Aid
Please note that appeals related to the Cal Grant are not processed by LMU Financial Aid and must be addressed to the California Student Aid Commission. Please visit the Cal Grant Appeals website for more information.
If you have any questions about your appeal eligibility or the appeals process, we invite you to email us.
Submitting Supporting Documents
You are able to submit documents along with your appeal using the Appeal eForm. If you need to provide additional documentation, please refer to our Secure Document Upload page regarding how to submit documents to our office.
Appeals and all supporting documents for the current academic year must be submitted to our office no later than 15 business days before the end of the Spring semester to be reviewed prior to the end of the academic year.