FAFSA changed by school but school wont say why

LeastComplicated
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:40:44 +0000

This is probably repetitive and not helpful, but we got an e-mail notice that our FAFSA was changed by a college. I think this was after I (the parent) made a change to the IRS automated population of our tax return. One of the data items from our tax return was placed in the incorrect FAFSA field (it was an amount less than $500 - I think it was interest income or something and ended up being in a totally unrelated field) and I changed it to the correct field manually. I think it gave me some kind of warning message about colleges being able to see that a change was made - I guess they don’t want you to mess with the downloaded data. But I figured it was best to keep the change, since the FAFSA would have been inaccurate if I had not have corrected it. Obviously one of the colleges decided to make the change back to how it was originally downloaded. I didn’t worry about it - it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference to our EFC.