Student Cost of Attendance Detail

About Financial Aid Student Cost of Attendance Detail Page

The Student Cost of Attendance Detail page allows users to review the Cost of Attendance (COA) template that has been applied/generated on the Financial aid Packaging page to the currently viewed ISIR/CPS Revision by the Cost of Attendance Configuration rules.  

The Student/ISIR, specific Cost of Attendance can then be adjusted by category manually if needed.  Additional Costs can be added by semester or by Academic Year (Please see Term Rules page regarding Academic Year description).

Access Student Cost of Attendance Detail

1. Navigate to the student's Financial Aid Packaging row and click the edit pencil button to go into the Packaging Detail.
2. Scroll down to Cost of Attendance section.
3. Click "To Student COA" button.If a COA Custom Named Rule was applied to the student from the packaging page it will display under this section as well.

Student Cost of Attendance (COA)

• Award Year - Shows the current ISIR/CPS year this COA is assigned to.
• CPS Transaction# - Shows the current ISIR/CPS transaction revision this COA is assigned to.

Add New COA

To add a new cost of attendance follow these steps:

1. Type Academic Year number (Default "1" for institutions with one Academic year per Financial Aid Award year (most institutions). Student's can have separate COA's for different Academic Year's "1", "2", "3", etc. within the same Financial Aid Award Year (sometimes used by clock hours/borrower based schools); please see Disbursement Term Rules for more information on "Academic Year").  
2. Choose a Specific Semester if desired; this field can be intentionally "left blank" [--choose one--] if setting up COA for a full year.  Specific semesters are usually used if one semester has additional costs over another.
3. Click "Add Cost" button to then type in the costs for each category and additional costs with a label/description if applicable.
4. Click 'Save and Back' to apply the Cost of Attendance to the student's ISIR package.
5. Repeat steps if applicable.
6. Upon a COD export, all Cost of Attendance rows created for the specific ISIR will be summed to a total COA for use with COD/CPS originations.
7. When done adding/editing Costs, click "Cancel/Back" to return to the Packaging Detail Page.

Edit or Delete COA

• To delete a COA row, click the red "X" delete button.
• To make adjustments to a student's COA that has been assigned or manually created, click the pencil edit tool to go to the COA edit page.
• When done adding/editing Costs, click "Cancel/Back" to return to the Packaging Detail Page.