I recently got a letter from my college

that has a total balance of

all the costs/fees, the things I have paid for, the things I have yet to pay for,

and the additional aid (scholarship, grants, federal aids) I have received as of date.

I have applied for both direct plus loan and stafford loan earlier this year,

and I am pretty sure I did all the necessary paper work for these,

however, these aids were not listed on the letter mentioned in the above paragraph.

So my question is,

is that normal?

Do the notification for how much stafford loan and direct plus loan I have received come later in the year? If so, how much later?

It would be helpful to receive information from anyone that has also applied for loans.

Thanks in advance!

I applied for it pretty early, like back in february or march.

I guess I should have been more clear,

they did notify me in other letters for estimates of how much I might recieve for the loans, but

they have yet to send the actual amount they are planning to give me.

Do you think that the amount of money I am borrowing (which is a pretty big number) has to do with the lateness of their reply?