As there are various ways of submitting your form for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (via mail on paper, or electronically through filling out the form online), there are also multiple ways of receiving the response of your application and finding out your Pell Grant status. If you have chosen to submit your application online, you should be aware of its advantages: being able to fill out part of the form, and then coming back to fill the rest; benefiting from the checks made by the online system if you happen to enter an illogical date of birth or an invalid Social Security Number; receiving online help through hints provided next to the form for every piece of information you will enter; and sending the completed form at an instant. None the less, the advantages of submitting an online application are not restricted to these only. Online services become even more advantageous as you expect to be acknowledged about your Pell Grant status. Here is how.
It will be good news for you to hear that if you have submitted your application form online, you may expect to be informed about your status quite early. There are two ways through which you can find out your Pell Grant status after making the application. The first one is through e-mail. Students who have made an online application should expect the information regarding their Pell Grant status to be sent to their e-mail inbox. Under normal circumstances, the e-mail is sent on the first business day after you submit your application. This quick reply is one reason why students are encouraged to make online applications for Pell Grants.
The other method through which you can learn your Pell Grant status is by using the same online facilities you had used while making your application. If you are using this method, you can find out your status immediately after submitting the application. What you should do is quite simple as well: First, you need to go to the home page of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid on the Web by entering http://www.fafsa.ed.gov to your address bar. To find out your status, you will need to click on “Start Here” to log in to your account. After logging in, you will be directed to a new web page. On this page, you will see columns. The third column is of interest to you, the one that carries the name “FAFSA Follow Up”. Among many other links in the column, you will see the item “Check Status of Grant” at the top of the column. This link will take you to where you want to be, telling you the status of your Pell Grant.