Financial Aid Checklist
For incoming undergraduate students
- Review priority filing dates for applications.
- Review timeline and financial aid guide.
- Submit the 2024-2025 FAFSA as soon as possible (available beginning December 31, 2023).
- Apply for external scholarships.
- Check your L&C Portal for any outstanding requirements and missing documents. (If you were selected for verification, visit our website for instructions.)
Pro Tip: Make sure that your social security number is on file with Admissions.
- Review your financial aid award in your L&C Portal.
- Pay your enrollment deposit by the deadline (listed on the webpage).
Pro Tip: Keep your school email inbox organized and frequently check for important messages from the Financial Aid Office.
Once you pay your enrollment deposit and create a Lewis & Clark email address, you will be granted access to WebAdvisor with a link to your Self-Service account.
- Accept or decline your loans(s) and/or work-study by July 1 in Self-Service. (Scholarships and grants are automatically accepted.)
- If you accept federal loan(s), complete the Entrance Counseling and sign the Master Promissory Note to process loans as a first-time borrower.
- Note: Federal grants and loans do not disburse until approximately one week before the semester begins.
Pro Tip: Merit-based scholarships are renewable each year as long as you maintain satisfactory academic progress.
- Set up a Nelnet Payment Plan, apply for the Parent PLUS Loan, and/or apply for a private student loan to cover remaining costs.
- Review payment due dates and payment methods.
- Settle your account balance.
- Submit an authorization form if you wish to give your parent(s), other family, and/or other third party access to your financial aid records per FERPA.
- Report external scholarships as you are notified of them.
- Reapply for financial aid each academic year by filing a FAFSA renewal.
- Already have health insurance under a parent’s policy? Waive L&C student health insurance.
- Sign up for CashCourse to take charge of your money!
Financial Aid is located in Fowler Student Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 56
email fao@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7090
fax 503-768-7074
Document Submission Portals:
New Undergraduate Students
All Other Students
Associate Vice President Anastacia Dillon
Financial Aid
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219