Next Steps - Timeline

If you received an incomplete letter from our Office of Financial Aid and have not already submitted your FAFSA and/or documentation of 2022 income, please do so immediately. We cannot provide you with a complete financial aid letter unless you have submitted all required financial documents or have asked us to waive this requirement.

US Citizens and Permanent Residents 

If you would like to be considered for the maximum amount of aid, you should ensure you have completed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) using the IRS Data Retrieval Tool. You are also required to upload a copy of your 2022 federal tax return and/or documentation of 2022 income to your SLC application portal. You can log into your status portal here. 

International Students
If you would like to be considered for the maximum amount of aid, you should submit translated documentation of your 2022 income. A list of acceptable documentation can be found here on our website. Documents can be uploaded to your status portal. 

Waiving the FAFSA Requirement
If you do not want to be considered for scholarships and fellowships that take financial need into account, and you do not plan on taking out US federal loans, you can ask us to waive the FAFSA/financial documentation requirement. Please email Financial Aid at finaid@sarahlawrence.edu.

Pay your enrollment deposit to accept your offer of admission and confirm your intent to enroll at Sarah Lawrence College. The $350 USD deposit is non-refundable and will be credited towards  your first semester’s bill.

To decline your offer, log into your status portal and let us know you’ve made other plans. 

The application for the I-20 will be available after May 1 and you will receive an email when it is available for you to access. You should follow the instructions to complete the I-20 application and upload required supporting documents. 

In early summer, deposited students are assigned an SLC email address. Once you are assigned your SLC email, the Office of Admission will email you instructions on how to set it up and access MySLC, the college’s intranet. On MySLC you will find important information on enrollment, class registration, housing and more. 

MySLC is also where you can find your enrollment checklist. All forms required for enrollment will be listed here along with the deadlines to submit them. In order to enroll in the fall, you will be asked to complete all of the required checklist items by the posted deadline. 

Each year in June for the fall, and November for the spring, the office of Student Accounts releases bills for the coming semester. You can find more information on payment types, payment plans and schedules here on our website. 

If you plan to enroll in Sarah Lawrence in the Fall, you will be required to send us an official transcript from each undergraduate and graduate institution attended. Your undergraduate transcript must show the date your Bachelor’s degree was conferred.

We prefer to receive transcripts electronically, however, we can also receive transcripts through the mail. Our mailing address is:

Please note, an “official” transcript is a document that has been prepared, authenticated, and sealed by the Registrar at your college or university. To be considered official, a transcript must be mailed, unopened, to our office or sent to us electronically direct from the institution.