{"id":1841,"date":"2011-10-12T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/?page_id=1841"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:37:49","slug":"next-steps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/undergraduate-students\/first-year-students\/next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve already applied. What&#8217;s next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is what you need to know as an applicant for admission and an admitted student to successfully manage your financial aid application moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyBU Applicant Portal<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyBU Applicant portal<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to monitor your checklist and upload BU Financial Assistance and Admissions documents: Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/admissions\/mybu\/\">link to the MyBU Applicant Portal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Application requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial aid application status.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award decisions, once they are available.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Award offer acknowledgement.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyBU Student Portal<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After your enrollment deposit is received, you will be sent instructions explaining how to upgrade your MyBU Applicant account to a MyBU Student account. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mybu\/\">link to the MyBU Student Portal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Manage Guests: Consider authorizing a trusted individual to have viewer access to certain MyBU Student financial and academic information. Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/academics\/ferpa\/delegated-access\/\">link to the Manage Guests function<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU FA Document Portal<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/onbase\/?form=ofa_upload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU FA Document Portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to upload completed forms and other documents to support your financial aid application after your access to the MyBU Applicant portal is no longer active.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what you need to know as an applicant for admission and an admitted student to successfully manage your financial aid application moving forward. MyBU Applicant Portal Use the MyBU Applicant portal to monitor your checklist and upload BU Financial Assistance and Admissions documents: Here&#8217;s a link to the MyBU Applicant Portal. \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"parent":4396,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1841\/revisions\/11709"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/finaid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}