in order for financial aid to work, you need to accept the awards that they give you. they are not automatically accepted for you. you should probably ask your parents if they did that for you, but I wouldn’t know how they would have been able to do it because its your account and not even colleges will give that priveledge to parents.

you need to do this just in case you have to take out any loans, becuase if you do need to and you don’t know about, then you will be paying for college out of your own pocket…and thats not a very nice feeling

you won’t receive a check or anything telling you that school is paid off. tell them that you expected to see a report online or at least one that was mailed to you.

do it soon, and good luck!