<p>I was leaving it up to my husband to fill this out but he hasn’t even hardly started yet. Can someone tell me if it has to go out by March 1st? I have been seeing something about that on the UVA site. D was accepted there ED. Help! We are in bad shape if it is supposed to go out by tomorrow!!! Please advise!</p>
<p>jmlbrads,
This is one deadline you don’t want to miss or make a mistake about. I just did a quick google and it does say that UVA’s fafsa deadline is tomorrow - March 1. If you have concerns about this, go to the UVA financial people. I think it has to be received by March 1, but guess that’s the same thing if you do it on-line. Looks like there is a supplemental form for UVA as well. <a href=“http://www.schev.edu/Students/financialAidAppDeadlines.asp?from=k12[/url]”>http://www.schev.edu/Students/financialAidAppDeadlines.asp?from=k12</a></p>
<p>There are a few hoops to jump through to get the fafsa done: taxes should be done and you need a fafsa pin number. My husband spent the entire weekend doing the taxes and just got the fafsa done last night. Here’s hoping that it will be easier for you.</p>
<p>This is <em>not</em> my area of expertise, but from helping gS, I believe I’ve learned the following:</p>
<p>If your taxes are not done/you are missing some info, I believe you should file by the deadline using estimates. You can update later. </p>
<p>Every school’s deadline is different, despite whatever the FAFSA site says about a “generic” deadline.</p>
<p>If you file late - and this I know for sure - you might still get aid, but you will miss out on a lot of possibilities, too. gS filed w-a-a-a-yy late last year (June or so), and still got Pell and subsidized Stafford. But he missed all the aid available directly from his own U.</p>
<p>And jmlbrads, from my definite area of expertise, leaving it up to the DH can be deadly :rolleyes:. That’s what I did last year and you saw the result (June filing). This year I “reminded” (translation: nagged) him weekly (he had to do the nagging to gS (after all, I’m only the step-grandma). Result: filed late February. Ha!</p>
<p>PS It’s not that DH is incompetent; it’s just that he labored under the delusion that telling a 19-year old male <em>once</em> that a deadline needed to be met would suffice :eek: .</p>
<p>Tip from a fellow mom - I do the taxes in our family and last year for the first time did it online. There are free programs - just look on the irs.gov website (and others with more features that you pay for) so you can do it all online. You can prepare it all and print it out for h. to look over before you actually send it electronically. Once it’s sent, it has to be ‘accepted’ so there’s another 24-48 hours before your return is actually filed. If you owe taxes I think there’s a mechanism for holding off (of course, you could just not submit until the April deadline). </p>
<p>I’d call the financial aid office at UVA and go to the FAFSA website to initiate getting a PIN and print out the worksheet and get started. You can update when you get actual figures, but using last year’s tax returns should give you something to work with. It is CRITICAL that you try to meet this deadline and talk to the school today. There is no one finaid policy for all schools so all that matters in your case is how UVA handles a late application.</p>
<p>Unless you have a business or some extraordinary tax situation, I find it much easier to do it myself - no nagging and I have notes on calendar to myself about various finaid deadlines. If you do all this on the web (your federal, any state taxes and FAFSA) subsequent years are much easier because the information carries over.</p>
<p>we spoke once to one of those people that do the fafsa’s for you, and he says he does them jan 2 and 3. the soon they are in them more you have the potential to get, as he says much aid is first come first served. of course I still don’t have our fafsa’s in, and didn’t even know that individual schools could have different deadlines until the other day when I read it here. go figure.</p>