<p>I’ll be completing both this weekend, which will be a few days before the priority deadlines for some of the colleges I applied to (Feb 15th) and I was wondering if there’s anything I needed to know about FAFSA or PROFILE right now so that I won’t come across any unexpected delays. I don’t want to be like “Oh no, I didnt know that I had to…” and end up not getting everything in on time or anything like that. I dont mean having tax forms and stuff, I’m talking about procedural type stuff, or requirements for sending in copies of forms. Thanks.</p>
<p>It’s best to file online rather than by mailing in the form</p>
<p>Do you have a PIN for the FAFSA? Does one of your parents? If not, you need to get them NOW - they are required for signing the form on-line.</p>
<p>Do you have more than 6 schools to apply to? If so, and you don’t yet have your PINs (which take 2-3 days to get electronically), you may not make the deadline for all of them. You can only apply to 6 schools at once on the FAFSA. Then, if you’ve applied on-line, in 3-5 days you get what’s known as an SAR - that tells you that your FAFSA has been processed and it’s gone to those 6 schools. Then you have to go into the FAFSA form and modify it by deleting the original 6 and adding the next schools, and submit. That takes 1-2 days to get the SAR for that modification.</p>
<p>See why we parents always suggest that forms be done well before deadlines?</p>