Title IV Authorization

If you are not receiving Title IV aid, the authorization does not apply to you and no further action is required.

Title IV aid includes aid from the Pell Grant, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), Direct Loan, and PLUS Loan programs. These funds can only be applied towards tuition, certain fees, housing, and dining, unless you provide authorization for Cornell to apply these funds to all charges on your student account. 

You are not required to provide this authorization, but if you do not do so at least two weeks before the start of instruction for the term:

  • Federal Title IV financial aid will not be applied to charges other than those for tuition, certain fees, housing and dining.  Other education-related charges that are assessed to the student account, such as student health insurance, parking permits, bookstore charges, service fees and fines, would therefore need to be paid by other means.
  • Title IV funds will be refunded while account balances remain due and payable.  Students who choose not to provide authorization must take special care to monitor their bills to ensure they pay all charges by their due dates.

To provide Title IV authorization:

  1. Go to Student Center (NetID login required).
  2. In the Finances section, click on the “Other Finance Information” dropdown, select View Student Permissions, then click the double arrow >> symbol.
  3. If the View Student Permissions page shows the “T4OPTIN” permission form already assigned, you’ve previously completed this authorization and don’t need to continue. Otherwise, click the yellow “Grant Permissions” button to move on to the next step.
  4. Read the associated text, and click the yellow “Next” button.
  5. Click to checkmark the “Yes, I have read the agreement” box and click the yellow “Submit” button, which will effect your authorization on your student account.

Title IV authorization can be withdrawn by following the instructions located here. Such withdrawal must be submitted no more than two weeks prior to the start of instruction for a term in order to impact the application of Title IV aid for that term.

Financial Responsibility Agreements completed prior to September 22, 2025 included Title IV authorization as part of the text.