| Padding the school listing on the FAFSA
Just a heads up...
I read somewhere that you should not leave the additional slots on the Fafsa school codes blank, but rather pad them.
For instance...my daughter applied and was accepted to 7 colleges. So, out of the 10 spots on the fafsa, we added these 7 colleges. This left 3 more spots.
Now, when the schools you list on the fafsa receive the institutional SAR, it shows every school you requested your sar be sent to. The financial aid departments see all those schools listed there prior to awarding financial aid.
So, we padded the other 3 schools. Since we were appling mostly to schools in Texas, we added Rice, SMU and TCU as our last 3 codes. The article I read said that financial aid offices might see these schools, assume these are also schools for which you have applied and been accepted, and PERHAPS offer high financial aid packages for you to come to THEIR school.
It may be a long shot...but it definately cant hurt!
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