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Timeline: Financial Aid Management Update

DateEventDescription
December 2023FAFSA SimplificationSimplified FAFSA requirements became available.
March 2024Mainframe System UpdateFinancial Aid Management (FAM) mainframe system updated to accommodate simplified FAFSA requirements.
August 2024Final Year of Mainframe ProcessingAcademic Year 2024–25 is the final financial aid year processed using the FAM system.
November 2025Mainframe Data Maintenance BeginsFAM maintenance continues in order to preserve necessary data from previous aid years.

Timeline: Bruin Financial Aid Implementation 

DateDescription
November 2024
  • Student Data Initiation occurs in Bruin Financial Aid.
January 2025
  • Bruin Financial Aid system begins to import and process Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR) data from federal government systems for financial aid year 2025-26. 
  • California-ISIRs are loaded into Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Budgeting and packaging for new students in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry occurs in Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Bruin Financial Aid verification processing begins
  • The student portal becomes available to new students in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry.
  • The student portal also becomes available for a small subset of students who are selected for verification.
March 2025
  • Financial aid budgets and packages for all new students to be processed using Bruin Financial Aid. 
  • Student portal available to all new students.
April 2025
  • Financial aid budgets and packages for all students will be processed using Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Student portal now available to all continuing students. 
June 2025
  • Anticipated aid for Summer 2025 becomes available in Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Disbursement for Summer 2025 begins in Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Returned Title IV Funds (R2T4) process becomes available in Bruin Financial Aid.
July 2025
  • Anticipated aid for select student populations for Fall 2025 is processed using Bruin Financial Aid.
August 2025
  • Anticipated Aid for all students for Fall 2025 is processed using Bruin Financial Aid.
  • Fall 2025 disbursements for select student populations begin occurring through Bruin Financial Aid.
September 2025
  • Fall 2025 disbursements all remaining students begin occurring through Bruin Financial Aid.
November 2025
  • New aid year processing begins in Bruin Financial Aid.