<p>Can I just say (dancing around with joy) that this is my last year to file a FAFSA on my kids behalf!!!</p>
<p>Any one else join me in the celebration?</p>
<p>Can I join you to celebrate when we both write our last tuition checks? Hopefully it will be spring of 2012! Have never filed the FAFSA because it indicated we wouldn’t get a dime when we did the practice calculator worksheet.</p>
<p>Chuckling at your woes, as I don’t fill out my FAFSA this year. 
Wrote the last check for the last college kid 6 weeks ago… :)</p>
<p>We’ve been dancing for a while…last FAFSA was when DD was a junior (she graduated this June)…and last bill…tada was paid in April…woohoo…</p>
<p>I did my ‘last’ FAFSA for the 2009-10 school year. Then DD went to med school, 4 more years.</p>
<p>Our last FAFSA was last year at this time!
But I am very glad to dance with you this year…enjoy!</p>
<p>Interestingly, DS sent me an email a month ago asking “Do WE have to do that FAFSA thing again?” He must have gotten a ‘reminder’. Funny part is that he asked if WE needed to do it…when he had very little to do with the 6 years of FAFSAing in this family…so happy to be done.</p>
<p>Just be happy the FAFSA meant something to you. I spent plenty of time on the FAFSA and the CSS Profile only to find that we did not qualify for financial help. This is just one of the joys of living in a high cost of living area. I estimate that my job pays about 1.2x the amount I would be paid elsewhere but the cost of living is 1.7x the national average. Bye, bye, New York. Another 4 weeks and counting.</p>
<p>FAFSA doesn’t bother me a bit–do it for 2S and their 2girlfriends, but oh, am I ever so glad to be done with Profile. Or, at least for 4 more years until D applies.</p>
<p>edad…we didn’t get need based aid either…but kids took out the Stafford loan…so we did the FAFSA every year.</p>
<p>Never understood why people get so wound up about FAFSA. It’s a 15 minute job tops. Just copy numbers from taxes and account balances.</p>
<p>Son did qualify for subsidized Staffords and took them each year.
So, the FAFSA was worth it to me in that those loans are in HIS name and not ours.
And those Staffords were under the ‘old’ max for each year so total borrowed should be manageable for him.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, we hope to be able to start funneling our ‘extra’ (ha ha) money to old car replacement, old house upkeep and old parent body repair!</p>
<p>edad- as a NJ -ite and fellow high cost of living sufferer, where are you heading??</p>
<p>IM- it’s a lot easier now than it was in 2001, but you still have to get your tax stuff together and your bank accounts, etc. That, too, is easier now with online banking. I must admit having just done it, this year was the simplest ever. When I first started it was so difficult to get a question answered on anything unusual</p>
<p>It’s not being done with the FAFSA that is the complete thrill here…it’s being done with the FAFSA means being done with COLLEGE TUITION BILLS too!!!</p>
<p>We completed our last FAFSA last year at this time. I’ll do the happy dance for you, though, because I remember how good it felt! Every student who had FAFSA completed by February 15 each year got $1,000 break which was nice.</p>
<p>Ugh! My sentiments exactly.</p>
<p>Like edad, we did FAFSA and Profile to no avail.</p>
<p>The first time was in the Spring of '99. I remember feeling as though I had been violated, really. We only did it the first year.</p>
<p>For the 2nd one same thing. Unlike many others who don’t get any FA, H and I were really glad we had put away so there were no loans. The kids both took hefty scholarships.</p>
<p>OT, but tomorrow it’s 34 years for H and me!</p>
<p>Happy Anniversary Glo…that should go on the “bragging thread”</p>
<p>Thanks, thumper. You convinced me.</p>
<p>This is my daughter’s first year to apply. I thought that we had to submit a FAFSA in order to be accepted to any school (or at least the schools make it seem that way) We will not qualify for any need-based monies. But, she is qualified to accept WUE academic out of state aid (Western Undergraduate Exchange). Because it is basically an academic scholarship that gives out of staters a break on tuition and has nothing to do with financial need - do we still need to fill out a fafsa?</p>
<p>Total relief at not having to do the FAFSA any more. It’s a really terrific feeling. However, we were very grateful for the financial aid that we got as a result of filing it each year. This was second only to writing the last bursar’s check a few weeks ago. :)</p>