But the amount of Pell grants would be almost $4000 different.
Did you go directly from filing for one to the other? The application will ask “Do your parents have another child to file FAFSA?” and then it imports all the parent info. If so, it would be the difference in the student section. If not, it could be an error in either section.
Like someone suggested, print out both forms and go line by line. It could go either way, that ‘jr’ daughter put some income or savings in wrong or ‘freshman’ daughter could have entered $14000 rather than $1400.
Frustrating. I think you are right to stay on this and not wait until spring.