Overview

Objects involved

Account (The institution the student is associated with)

Contact (the student that is receiving funding)

Affiliation (what is connecting the Account, and the Student - creating the Affiliation the student has at the Institution)

Funding Source - Contains the definition of the funding that the Institution awards, may contain the Max Money, Start Date, End date, Funding Type, Funding Name, etc)

Student Funds - Student, the Fund Source, AID Term, Status (Incomplete, Pending, Offered, Accept, Cancelled, Declined), Dispersed - Yes/No, , --- Most students will have many records per Aid TERM; Incomplete status, where the requirements are not fulfilled, the "action" is on the Student in order to move the funding forward; Pending is a status where the "action" is on the "XXX" (not student, most likely University or Gov't or Private Entity) to move the funding forward.

Student Fund Requirements - requirements the student must fulfill to receive the funding. (ex. student must write an essay, or other things

Financial Aid - Summary / Parent of the Student Funds, with a relationship to Contact, term

TERM will have a relationship to the Student Funds - to define what TERM the funds are being dispersed/available for

AID YEAR - is an object of some type of relation ship to TERM object