| I thought the fafsa was a huge pain. I didn't find the explanations particularly clear and if you have anything other than the basics it's time consuming. My h has stock options of varying types from his company and properly trying to account for and value and report them was a real pain. I am always in awe when I read that people consider it easy and painless. After all of the trouble our EFC was right in the ballpark of the calculator ( too high for aid at our daughter's inexpensive schools) so I could have just skipped the whole process. I don't plan to ever complete it again! ( heaven forbid something changes and we need to)
Disclaimer - I know we are fortunate to have been able to save enough to not need the aid, but it was still a a pain!We only filled it out because all of the advice says to do it just in case. |