College Confidential - View Single Post - Completely new to College & Fasta's, etc....

OverRunWithSons · 01-27-2007, 02:17 PM

My son is not even a senior yet, I am just getting nervous about all this college stuff coming up, me & husband never went so this is all new to us. I heard somewhere you MUST TURN this Fasta thing in BEFORE a certain time limit to get the Financial aid or you just loose out for that year? Is this true, my question is --how can you do that if you do not have your taxes done yet? How does this work, can you turn it in and correct it at a later date-if have too, is this allowed--is all of this on the internet or through the mail system?? My son just wants to go to a State college close to home. Is it better to live there, do most kids not have a car? What about health insurance? When a child is enrolled in college, do most plans keep the strudent on there, and to what age? Any advice on Books, etc to read in preparation for all of these forms, time limits, how to save or not save your money in child's name in preparation for Fasta. Etc would be wonderful, thank you. Our income is approx $50,000 for whole family, we have other children, so we are not HIgh income. Thank you.

01-27-2007, 02:17 PM	#1
OverRunWithSons Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 69	Completely new to College & Fasta's, etc.... My son is not even a senior yet, I am just getting nervous about all this college stuff coming up, me & husband never went so this is all new to us. I heard somewhere you MUST TURN this Fasta thing in BEFORE a certain time limit to get the Financial aid or you just loose out for that year? Is this true, my question is --how can you do that if you do not have your taxes done yet? How does this work, can you turn it in and correct it at a later date-if have too, is this allowed--is all of this on the internet or through the mail system?? My son just wants to go to a State college close to home. Is it better to live there, do most kids not have a car? What about health insurance? When a child is enrolled in college, do most plans keep the strudent on there, and to what age? Any advice on Books, etc to read in preparation for all of these forms, time limits, how to save or not save your money in child's name in preparation for Fasta. Etc would be wonderful, thank you. Our income is approx $50,000 for whole family, we have other children, so we are not HIgh income. Thank you.
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