Financial Aid

Financial aid helps you and/or your parents to meet basic educational expenses for an academic degree, a professional technical degree, or a certificate program. While the primary responsibility for paying for college rests with you and your family, Cascadia offers many resources to help you.

Cascadia administers financial aid in accordance with established state and federal regulations and policies.

Student Financial Services is currently processing 2011/2012 files. Processing of 2012/2013 files will begin approximately mid April.

Files are processed in order by your file complete date which can be viewed on the Portal . Since this is our highest processing time, please allow us 4-6 weeks from your file complete date to receive your award notification and for 2012/13, please allow 4-6 weeks from your file complete date once we begin processing 2012/13 files.

You should regularly check the Portal for any updates or information we may ask or need from you, or to look for your financial aid awards once your file has been awarded. Limiting your phone calls and emails to our office will allow us to utilize more time to process your file! Thank you for your understanding as we diligently work to get you awarded!

**NEW INCOME VERIFICATION GUIDELINES FOR 2012/2013 FINANCIAL AID APPLICANTS! VIEW INFORMATION ON THE NEW IRS DATA RETRIEVAL TOOL AVAILABLE THROUGH FAFSA HERE!