09-10 hrsa nursing scholarship

stdjlg37 · Oct 22, 2009

to those that have received notification already, have you been contacted by your representative or any other correspondence?

khervey · Oct 22, 2009

No further correspondence for me yet besides my acceptance letter. Will let you know as soon as I am contacted.

deevee12 · Oct 23, 2009

Nothing yet for me either.. I called the phone number on our letter of acceptance and the recording said we should make a copy of our award letter and send it in to the financial aid office. Also, the ORC will be $1848. Let's all let each other know when we hear something!

vikings203 · Oct 23, 2009

Hi guys,

I also received my award letter in the mail this last saturday. Congrats to everyone who got it. To everyone who did not, stay encouraged. I am a senior in nursing school so this was my last chance to get a scholarship. Much needed. To deevee12, what is the ORC?

deevee12 · Oct 24, 2009

it is the "other reasonable costs" payment that they include with the first stipend payment. Here is the information:

Other Reasonable Costs (ORC) Financial support will be provided to each participant of the NSP for other reasonable educational expenses or costs (ORC) incurred by the student. A standardized ORC payment is established for a full school year, for a full-time student. The ORC payment will be reduced proportionately for students who plan to attend less than a full school year (e.g., December graduates). For part-time students, if funded, the ORC payment will be proportionally reduced. The ORC payment is provided to assist in the payment of the following types of expense:

Books
Clinical supplies
Instruments
Insurance (Life or Health Insurance)
School ID Cards/ID Fees
Travel
Uniforms

The ORC payment will be included in the October stipend payment, which should be received by November 7.

stdjlg37 · Oct 24, 2009

I just spoke to someone there but was acutally calling the get the "recording" from the earlier post. She said our stipends should be out Nov. 7 or around that time and to copy the letter and send it to our financial aid department and ask them to bill HRSA.

Hope this helps!

deevee12 · Oct 24, 2009

thanks for letting me know... i called her and got some questions answered!

stdjlg37 · Oct 25, 2009

deevee12,

if you don't mind sharing, what did they tell you?

vikings203 · Oct 25, 2009

Thanks Deevee12. I was lost on that. I thought that they made the school fee's and book cost (ORC) based on each student or their school.

deevee12 · Oct 25, 2009

stdjlg37 - i asked her about a change in my personal information and if it would affect the timing of the stipends and stuff. she also said that our award letter basically gives the school the "ok" to send an invoice to HRSA. So you can tell your financial aid office to send the invoice now.

vikings203 - no problem.

labelle777 · Oct 25, 2009

I won this award too, but the award letter that they said to give to the school doesn't say anything about authorizing the school to send them an invoice and doesn't give any instructions to the school whatsoever, so its confusing. Does anybody know if there is supposed to be a separate document that we give the school other than the award letter?

deevee12 · Oct 25, 2009

yeah she mentioned that it wasn't a good letter but that it allows the school to invoice hrsa. she said "the school knows what to do". the address she gave me is the same address on the first page of the bulletin: 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 8-37 Rockville, Maryland 20857

I was just going to call the fin aid office tomorrow to see if they know what to do. Or else.. I'll just wait to be contacted by the analyst. She gave me my analyst's name and contact information.