<p>I had to do the profile minus the paperwork, so I did the fafsa like that as well. I checked each item online or with a phone call. The only off item was to be a small amount taken out yearly that will be in box 14 on W-2.
I thought.
sigh.
I completely forgot a single paycheck for work done in January. The FAFSA was done electronically at 11 am. The W-2 arrived this afternoon.</p>
<p>Dumber than a rock? Nahhhhhhhhhh… Overwhelmed with this neverending paperwork? Yep! Look at the bright side–it’ll be over and done with SOME DAY!!! 
Sorry for all of your aggravation…</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>im not expecting our w-2s until 4pm on 1/31
at least they have been consistent</p>
<p>so far FAFSA won’t let me sign on to the add/delete schools or change number section. I assume cause it didn’t actually process it yet.
Do I call each school?<br>
Does the amended form go out to them as quickly as the original?
Does chocolate for breakfast hurt my pitiful attempts to drop the 25lbs I gained in the past two years? Does fretting burn calories?</p>
<p>Oldinjersey:</p>
<p>Is the discrepancy significant? </p>
<p>Can’t you send an amended FAFSA at a later date? I imagine that applicants who applied EA must be in a similar situation of having filled a FAFSA that is not totally accurate.</p>
<p>Fretting does burn calories, but reduced sleep apparently leads to weight gain.</p>
<p>I am not an expert, but this is what I would do: I would wait for my SAR. Then I would correct the mistake, and then delete the old schools, and add new schools. When they receive the info, I would go ahead and send the corrected fafsa info to the first 6 schools that you already sent the fafsa to, before you noticed the error. Wouldn’t this work out? You would be generating a total of three fafsas (original, corrected fafsa with new schools listed, corrected one going to the schools on the original fafsa that you just completed). If I am wrong about how to do this, let me know everyone.</p>
<p>OldinNJ, I doubt you’re anywhere near as dumb as we are. Sophomore year, I sent the young lady who I thought was VERY smart the link the to saved FAFSA with instructions to enter her numbers in the student’s section for her little summer job, her on campus job, her investment portfolio which is so anemic it’s hardly even worth noticing, etc. Very simple, fill it out, sign it electronically, done. </p>
<p>I didn’t go back to check on her entries, because, well, I don’t know, seems like a 2nd year college student with a nice gpa in hard sciences who has done her own tax returns, managed her own banking and even the family cell phone plan, should be able to figure out that section of the FAFSA. </p>
<p>Anyway, the following month, I started getting all these weird forms from the college, wanting to know how much I spent on gorceries each month, how much public assistance was I getting and from what agencies, cost of utilities, etc. Being on autopilot and totally compliance with all things related to college, I hurriedly filled out maybe 75% of all the forms, then, it dawned on me, wait a minute, something doesn’t seem quite right here, why is the college asking these sorts of questions?</p>
<p>So I send an email to my new friends in the financial aid office: “why do I have to fill out these forms?” The answer came back “because there has been a significant drop in your income from last year, and we need to document…”. </p>
<p>I was like, hmroo??? My income has NEVER dropped over any prior year…anyway, dug and drilled further, the little treasure somehow populated the parent’s fields on the FAFSA with HER information, and totally wiped out mine, so, it looked to the school like my AGI was, oh, $3,000/year. LOL. </p>
<p>It took me what seemed like FOREVER to straighten that mess out. It’s a very good thing she’s so cute, and so dearly loved.</p>