The only way a college would have your 2019 tax return information is if YOU sent it to them. There are families appealing aid now because their 2019 income and now is so much less than what 2018 was. Those folks would have been asked to provide documentation of the 2019 income…and sending signed 2019 tax returns would be likely.
But @compiler if you never sent the colleges your 2019 tax returns there is NO WAY that the college (s) would have that info.
Weren’t you considering appealing financial aid? Did you do so? Did you send your 2019 tax return to the colleges?
Nothing like this just poof happens. It would only be because YOU sent them the 2019 tax return. Did you?