FAFSA changed by school but school wont say why

twoinanddone
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:01:47 +0000

I think of FAFSA as a big mailroom distribution center. You send in FAFSA and ask the mailroom to distribute copies to 10 schools. They are placed into the school mailboxes and there they sit until the schools pick up the mail. (my d’s school said they do a ‘pick up’ about once a week in the non-busy times, once a day or every other day in the busy times; big schools may pick up several batches a day) If YOU make a change a new copy of the FAFSA would be placed in each box. All 10 would get any changes YOU make.

If School #3 picks up its mail first and makes a change, YOU get a notice of the change, but the other 9 schools do not. School #6 may make a change and you’ll get notice of that too, but school #3 doesn’t. You now have 3 different versions of FAFSA out there, the ‘master’ filing that you made, school #3’s version, and school #6’s version. If you send another master version, schools #3 and #6 would have to merger your new master version with their changes.