Preparing for Summer Financial Aid
Summer Financial Aid is typically awarded in early-May prior to the summer session 1 payment deadline.
Summer Financial Aid To-do List
- Ensure you are meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress (2.0 cumulative GPA and successfully completing at least 75% of attempted courses).
- Pay any student account balances from current and previous semesters.
- File your 2025/2026 FAFSAThe Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility for state and federal grants, scholarships, and loans. The FAFSA can be completed on the Federal Student Aid website. The Boston University FAFSA school code is 002130.. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSAThe Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility for state and federal grants, scholarships, and loans. The FAFSA can be completed on the Federal Student Aid website. The Boston University FAFSA school code is 002130.) is used to determine eligibility for state and federal grants, scholarships, work-study and loans. The FAFSAThe Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility for state and federal grants, scholarships, and loans. The FAFSA can be completed on the Federal Student Aid website. The Boston University FAFSA school code is 002130. can be completed on the Federal Student Aid website. The Boston University FAFSAThe Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is used to determine eligibility for state and federal grants, scholarships, and loans. The FAFSA can be completed on the Federal Student Aid website. The Boston University FAFSA school code is 002130. school code is 002130. Keep an eye on your MyBU Student Portal To-do list for any additional requirements.
- Register for Summer Courses.
- Make sure that you review the requirements for any summer financial aid that you are applying for:
- Federal Direct Loans require at least 6 credits of summer enrollment (at least ½ time enrollment over the Summer Term).
- Federal Direct Loans require at least 6 credits of summer enrollment (at least ½ time enrollment over the Summer Term).
Summer Financial Aid Applications:
- Summer HUB Grant Application
- BU HUB scholarship/grant aid is available for only one qualifying course during Summer 2025. Additional qualifying courses will not be covered by BU grant aid. To be eligible for BU HUB scholarship/grant aid to cover all or a portion of the tuition and fee charges for these courses a student must be a recipient of BU need-based scholarship/grant aid in the academic year (fall/spring). The Summer HUB Course Scholarship covers the same percentage of the HUB course tuition as your academic year need-based scholarship covers for academic year tuition.
- Application review begins on 5/1.
- Summer Work Study Application
- Keep an eye out for an email confirming your summer work-study eligibility so that you can begin searching for your summer job!
- Summer Undergraduate Federal Direct Loan Request
- Undergraduate Plus Loan Request
- Summer borrowers must select the summer dates when completing the application