<p>musicmom, what I mean is that when you file taxes now, they are for the year 2007. But for FAFSA, if you have not yet filed your taxes for the year 2007, you can submit data for your 2006 return and then update that data when you have filed your returns for the year 2007. I do not think income and data for the year 2008 is relevant for FAFSA. That will be used for the next year’s round of FAFSA next Feb. </p>
<p>Cartera, you bring up a point that again, I will also reiterate…people need to go by the deadlines that each of your schools has outlined. In my family, my husband deals with all the financial aid forms. My older D is an applicant for grad schools and gave my husband a master sheet of all FA due dates for each school (some have additional forms of their own besides FAFSA) and even the FAFSA due dates for each school are not the same. I think if one abides by the deadlines the schools give, that’s what matters. Filing early doesn’t have an advantage in terms of FA received (my point to chelle).</p>