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While
You Are Away
Financial
Aid, Registration, and Mail
How to Handle Loans while
on Leave
Students who are
on an approved Academic Leave of Absence will be treated as
an enrolled student for purposes of student loan repayment/deferral.
Financial
Aid Availability
Students
who are on an Academic Leave of Absence at GLCA-recognized
and Oberlin College affiliated programs of study are eligible
to be considered for all financial aid programs while on leave.
Students on an Academic Leave who enroll in non-affiliated
programs of study may be eligible to receive limited amounts
of federal funding and should contact the Office of Financial
Aid for additional information.
How
to Apply for Financial Aid while on Leave
Financial Aid application
forms are normally mailed to students in December for the following
academic year. If you do not receive
the mailing, please contact the Office of Financial Aid at financial.aid@oberlin.edu
to request application materials. The application deadline
is April 25. Remember that if you have not given
us your “mailing” address while away, we will use your permanent
home address to mail all official materials.
Mail
to your OCMR
Before you leave campus, you must give the Student mailroom your forwarding address. If you do not notify the mailroom of your forwarding address before you leave campus, all of your mail will be returned to sender. You can either go to the mailroom or send an email to harold.stout@oberlin.edu. If you give the mailroom a forwarding address, all first class mail will be forwarded for the first 30 days. The mailroom will not forward any packages. After 30 days, your mailbox will be closed and all of your mail will be returned to sender.
If your address changes while you are away or if you did not inform us of your mailing address, please email donna.young@oberlin.edu. She will then notify the other offices on campus of your address change.
Registration
Your PRESTO account (as well as your Oberlin email account) stays active while you are away; please check it periodically for official messages. You will be able to register online while you are away. You will receive an email in mid-October about spring semester course registration and/or in late March about fall semester course registration. All registration materials will be posted to Blackboard; the email will be your reminder to go to Blackboard to download the materials. No materials will be mailed (via U.S. Mail) to you unless you will not have internet access while you are away. If this is the case, or if you have questions or concerns registration, please contact registrar@oberlin.edu.
Housing
All current students eligible for the Off-Campus Housing Status will receive an email about the process at the end of October. Registration for Off-Campus Housing Status is through the web. Students on leave must keep their OCMail account current in order to register for Off-Campus Housing. The deadline for registration is midnight, November 25, 2009.
For all other students Housing Registration will be available from the Residential Education web site, http://www.oberlin.edu/resed in mid-March. All students will be updated on housing registration through their OCMail account.
Students on academic leave will receive credit for the semester(s) away in the semesters in residency calculation. Students on personal and medical leaves of absence will not receive residency credit.
Email resed@oberlin.edu or call 440-775-8472 with any housing questions. To live and/or dine in OSCA, contact the OSCA office directly, 440-775-8108 or email OSCA@oberlin.edu.
All students are expected to live and take meals on campus unless released in writing by the Assistant Director for Housing Administration. Students should not sign an off-campus rental lease or pay a security deposit without written notification of release. Any student who remains enrolled in the College, but leaves College housing and/or dining halls during the academic year without a release, continues to be liable for the charges for the full academic year. Students who accept the off-campus option and then choose to return to the College housing system will be eligible to select only from housing available at the time of their return.
All students are expected to live in College housing through graduation. A limited number of students who have lived on campus for at least seven semesters may be granted off-campus (town) housing status based a lottery system.
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