r/UTSA • u/Flat-Usual-2755 • 14h ago
Other UTSA is taking my texas grant despite me being a full-time student
Hey yall, I need some help with financial aid stuff, and calling OneStop for answers just isn't working anymore. I've been a full-time student for the past 4.5 years and have been receiving financial aid since I started. It's my last semester now before I graduate, and I found out my Texas Grant, despite saying it's accepted in the UTSA financial aid portal, never dispersed. Long story short, OneStop told me that since I retook calculus 2 in Spring 2026, it didn't fulfill the 24 credit hour requirement for the 2026-2027 Financial Period. The reason it allowed me to "accept" the grant was because they do two assessments on eligibility, one around the end of the Spring and again towards the beginning of the fall. The reason for making the post is because I was also full-time in the summer of 2026, 3 classes at UTSA and one at NVC. Obviously the cyber attack made it hard to contact OneStop, and I couldn't even submit the appeal form. But now I have to pay 3.5 grand out of pocket in my last semester before I graduate. Does anyone have any tips? I submitted the appeal form with a statement and they said today that it probably won't even be processed until maybe the end of this month, September. It just feels so unfulfilling to put in all this work just to get my money taken from me at the very end. These grants/scholarships are the only reason I haven't dropped out is because I genuinely can't afford it.