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
New Undergraduate Students (admitted to start in Fall 2025)
- Financial Aid Appeal Form - Use this link for undergraduate students who have been admitted to LMU to start in Fall 2025. Make sure to use your Future Lions/Admissions portal login credentials to begin the form. You must wait until you have received your initial financial aid offer before you can submit an appeal.
Current/Continuing Undergraduate Students
- Need-Based Appeal Form - If you’re a current or continuing undergraduate student and need to report a change in your family’s financial situation that occurred after 2022, you can use your MyLMU login to complete the form. You must have completed the 2024-2025 FAFSA before filing a need-based appeal. If you are providing supporting documents for an existing appeal, submit the documents using our Secure Document Upload portal or via fax at 310-338-2793. Do not submit an additional Need-Based Appeal form.
- Non-Need-Based Appeal - If you’re a current or continuing undergraduate student and want to request additional financial aid without reporting a change in your family’s financial situation, email finaid@lmu.edu. You can address your statement to “LMU Financial Aid.” You can also upload your statement and any supporting documents through the 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
For continuing undergraduate students who are submitting a "Need-Based Appeal," you are able to submit documents along with your appeal using the "Need-based Appeal Form." If you need to provide additional documentation, please refer to our Secure Document Upload page regarding how to submit documents to our office.
Continuing undergraduate students must submit appeals and all supporting documents for the current academic year 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.