Does it matter when you submit FAFSA and CSS?

sybbie719
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:34:24 +0000

For this, your freshman year, please encourage your parents to file their taxes asap. While filing early puts you in line, you will not receive a package until they submit either a IRS transcript or use the IRS data retrevial tool. Keep in mind that the process will still go forward; it will just go forward without you and money could still run out before they get to you as the majority of school in the country are need aware/need senisitive. This means when they come to the end of the financial aid budget, if choosing between 2 similiarly qualified students, they will take the student who “needs” less of the school’s resources.