<p>This is just a pure vent. Many of you have probably been through this before. I have probably been through it before but must have forgotten. I just helped my son fill out his fafsa. I actually filled out the relevant parental financial info and signed it with my pin (that took me a while to get the pin reactivated).</p>
<p>So today I get an email advising me that…<br>
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<p>Oh, so you couldn’t send it to me? You bunch of blankety blank blankheads!</p>
<p>NJres–that’s a pain. I have my own set of frustrations w/some patronizing advice from FAFSA.</p>
<p>How I got around the notification-- put family email on. Son texts, but doesn’t check his email regularly. He has access to family email (& checks it). So, that was ethical, I believe.</p>
<p>This whole FAFSA thing is head-ache producing.</p>
<p>That must be the difference between Ss & Ds. My D regularly forwards me revelent e-mail relating to school and checks e-mail on a daily basis. However for FAFSA and stuff we all agreed we use a family e-mail account. I would ask S to please check e-mail every Friday (or pick a day) and forward you anything FAFSA related that comes. Good Luck</p>
<p>Got same message after signing w/PIN. Told S to forward the email to me as, honestly, he does not care, knows I am on top of the finaid portion of the application process.</p>
<p>Agree, why not send the SAR link to both the student and parent email. Oh, wait, that makes too much sense!!</p>
<p>LOL continued…
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<p>Well…we solved that problem by using my email for the FAFSA (and everything else related to college). The kids had changing email addresses…mine has never changed. Seemed like a good idea. I also get their turbo tax reminders…college payment reminders…fafsa reminders…etc.</p>
<p>Good heavens - much ado about nothing ;). You don’t need the email to access the SAR. Just go to the FAFSA web site, enter the information, and view it.</p>
<p><a href=“https://fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/StudentAccessServlet/90[/url]”>https://fafsa.ed.gov/FOTWWebApp/StudentAccessServlet/90</a></p>
<p>Get used to everything being sent to the student, not the parent. Be sure to have your child fill out FERPA papers at school or you won’t get anything (not grades, not the bill - the one YOU have to pay, etc). </p>
<p>The FAFSA is the student’s document. Yes, your child is a financial aid dependent (whether you want him to be or not). Yes, you must provide your financial info. Yes, you must sign the FAFSA. But ultimately, you are doing this for your child - who is actually the one responsible for what is contained in the document. I often have parents asking about their child’s financial aid. I have to go to a computer screen to check whether or not the student has signed a form allowing her parents access to her info. If the parent is not listed on that screen, I cannot discuss the child’s aid with the parent … even though the parent is considered to be responsible for financing the child’s education.</p>
<p>I don’t make the laws, I just follow 'em. :)</p>
<p>Agree with many of the above. I made an executive decision to use *my *email, not S’s. He wouldn’t have deleted it like NJres’s S, because he never would have gotten around to opening it…</p>
<p>but as SCM says, you don’t need the email to check the SAR.</p>
<p>Same here, with kids permission used my email address for financial aid correspondence. I now give that advice to my siblings who come around looking for financial aid advice for my 16 nieces and nephews. Thankfully after 12 years of FAFSAs and CSS Profiles and multiple individual school financial aid forms…I am done. Last one is finishing and entering doctoral program in the fall in chemistry–fully funded. Come July she is off our payroll and on her own dime and health insurance. I won’t miss the January financial aid form ritual! Best wishes to all who are still going through it.</p>
<p>LOL at NJRes’s son. That’s very familiar. Son insisted his email be the contact for college apps (seemed reasonable at the time). But, he’s yet to respond to many of those emails to set up accounts w/the schools to check status, etc. I knew the fin aid issue had to go through the family inbox, after that.</p>
<p>I fill the FAFSA and my D info and I use my email address. Just simplifies everything.</p>
<p>BTW, when we were visiting colleges, an Adcom said it is always best to get one new email address,and use it solely for everything college related, so you and your student have access to it.</p>
<p>That’s what we did… I set up a forwarding stack that sends a copy to geek_son and a copy to me. When we started the process last spring, he was checking his email maybe once every month or six weeks. He’s a little better now. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>That’s the aggravating part of ALL this, some things go to them, some things come to us. I was really steamed when the school issued a small refund check to my daughter, when at that time, she hadn’t contributed a dime. Fortunately, instead of cashing it herself or depositing it into her own bank account, she signed it over to me. It was $17.50, not a big deal, but it was more the principle of the thing for me.</p>
<p>Daughter was equally upset when I started receiving work study job openings from her school at my e-mail address saying to forward to her if I <em>approved</em> of the jobs - I forwarded them as I got them but she felt those things should go directly to the students.</p>