Helpful
Hints for Completing the FAFSA To
increase your chances of being considered for programs with limited funds,
complete and submit the current year FAFSA as soon as it becomes available in January each year.
Do
NOT sign and mail your FAFSA before January 1, or it
will be rejected.
Get it done
FAST- complete the
FAFSA online!
Completing
the FAFSA:
- Read all
instructions.
- Provide
only the information that is requested.
- Use your
legal name- not nicknames - and your correct Social Security Number.
- "You"
and "your" refer to the student. Sections that are yellow
refer to you, the student. Purple sections refer to your parents.
- If your
parents are divorced, you must use the information for the parent you
lived with most in the last 12 months. If
that parent is remarried, you must also include the stepparent's income.
Be sure to provide the information requested about your parents in questions
#56 through #89.
- In Step
6, #97, make sure you include #001601 on your list of school codes.
Don't forget to sign and date your FAFSA. Also, if you were required
to provide parental infromation, a parent is also required to sign the
FAFSA.
- If you
fill out the FAFSA electronically, don't forget to
- a)
sign using you PIN (personal identification number) or,
- b)
print the signature page and mail it to the listed address.
- Allow
2-4 weeks for your FAFSA to be processed. If after 4 weeks you have
not received a Student Aid Report (SAR) via email from the Processor, contact
them at 1-800-433-3243.
- Make a
copy of your completed FAFSA for your records.
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