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Access Your Financial Aid Award

Finalizing Your Offer

You can accept or decline your Saint Louis University financial aid awards at by logging into MySLU and navigating to Banner Self-Service. There, you can accept or decline the individual components that make up your financial aid award.

  1. Log into the MySLU portal using your SLUNet ID and password.
    • Trouble logging in? You may be locked out of your account, your password has expired or you have the wrong username or password. Contact SLU IT at 314-977-4000 for assistance. You will need your SLUnet ID, Banner ID, date of birth, home address and last four digits of your social security to verify identity.
  2. In the My Apps section, navigate to Banner Self-Service. 
  3. Under Student Financial Links, click on the Financial Aid Dashboard.
  4. Click the Offer tab from the top menu.
  5. Ensure that the appropriate award year is selected from the dropdown menu.
    • Summer awards are considered part of the previous aid year (example: Summer 2026 is part of the 2025-2026 aid year.)
  6. Review your financial aid offer in its entirety. Make sure to scroll all the way through and accept, decline, or modify each award, where indicated:
    • To accept the full amount of the award, select Accept from the dropdown next to the award.
    • To accept a partial amount of an award, select Modify from the dropdown next to the award, type in the amount you wish to accept, and click OK.
    • To decline an award, select Decline from the dropdown next to the award.
  7. Once you have made a decision for all awards, click Submit.
  8. Check the box to acknowledge the terms and conditions and click Accept Award.
  9. If you accept a student loan as part of your financial aid award and are a new student borrower, you will also need to complete Loan Entrance Counseling and a Master Promissory Note.

Authorizations

You could be presented with questions from the financial aid office periodically on the Home tab of your Financial Aid Dashboard. We highly encourage you to submit your response, but it is not required. 

To answer the questions, follow these steps: 

  1. Click "View Questions" in the red banner presented on the Home tab of your Financial Aid Dashboard.
  2. Review the questions in the pop-up window.
  3. Select your response from the drop-down menu:
    • To authorize, choose "Authorize." This is the recommended option.
    • To decline, choose "Decline."
  4. Once your choice is populated, click "Submit."