<p>Small tidbit, but important.</p>
<p>If you don’t put your SSN on your application, your FAFSA/PROFILE won’t get matched with your application, and they will be marked as missing. I found that out the hard way, after I got acceptences. Make sure not to make this mistake!</p>
<p>better yet, do the fafsa online, you can’t forget your ss#</p>
<p>Are you talking about SS# being put on your application when you apply to the college or on the FAFSA/PROFILE ?</p>
<p>If the colleges assign you a student ID# for all the record keeping why do they want your SS# ?</p>
<p>One of our teachers was mentioning the other day to not be using your SS# for an identification card.</p>
<p>The SS# is required on the FAFSA because it is a federal application. The Department of Education will never do away with requiring the SS#. That is how they run citizenship, default, veteran, etc checks to make sure that the applicants are qualified for financial aid. While most schools do not use the SS# as an identifier, SS#'s will still be required on initial applications there as well because that is the primary way of identifying a student. Because Financial Aid Offices deal with loans and the DOE, we will continue requesting SS#'s on paperwork, in some magnitude to ensure we are processing the right paperwork. Quite honestly, I have several students with the same name…who can’t tell me their Student ID #. Also…in the very beginning of the application process, students do not always have an ID number yet…and information can easily be overlooked if we are only looking at the student’s name.</p>
<p>I meant to write it on your application to the colleges. Every school I applied to transfer to ended up losing my FAFSA/PROFILE because they never matched it up with my application.</p>
<p>It is important to fill out the college applications completely. As you found out, it can delay for prevent vital information from reaching you.</p>
<p>CommonApp tells you the SSN is optional. The application was filled out completely.</p>