Welcome to the OSAP office

Get to know your schools OSAP office! This piece of advice is key to you being able to navigate any problems that may arise with your funding throughout your school career.
The Laurier Brantford OSAP office is located on the ground floor of the Grand River Hall building on Colborne Street. If you find yourself in the dean's office you have gone too far.

This sometimes helpful, often terrifying office is the key to a large amount of students ability to attend university. In a recent article from the main campus' paper The Cord, the need for OSAP from students at Wilfrid Laurier has jumped nearly 20% this year.

So far this has meant a major back log in the offices ability to handle applications. The increase in demand for student loans means that the office staff (which has remained the same size despite the increase in need) is 20% less able to accommodate students.

Further exasperating this problem is the fact that the Laurier Brantford OSAP office is not equipped to handle all OSAP claims. Problems with funding have to be directed to the main campus. As all forms must be signed with original signatures this makes faxing out of the question and further increases the wait for funding while documents are couriered back and forth from Brantford to Waterloo.

While I can only hope that there will not be an even greater increase in the need for OSAP in the future I still wonder about the school's ability to cope with an increased need, specifically in Brantford. As the campus continues to grow it will be interesting to see just how well campus operations will be able to keep up.