Hey everyone! I have my earliest FAFSA deadline in two days…I am very concerned. My portal says my FAFSA was completed on January 10th, but as of a few minutes ago, no college has received my form yet. I’m just worried that my form won’t be processed or received by the deadline. Any advice?
I’m also not able to see what schools my FAFSA has been submitted to, so that’s also stressful. Am I doing something wrong?
How do I add more school to the FAFSA or at least look at what schools I sent it to?
Here are the other threads about this. I think you can get info by reading them.
U.S. Department of Ed just announced that FAFSA data won’t go out until early March.
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-announces-more-31-million-fafsa-forms-successfully-submitted-and-update-student-aid-index-calculation
Here are some excerpts:
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) today released new data that shows more than 3.1 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) forms have been successfully submitted since the 2024–25 redesigned application went live on Dec. 30. The new data comes a little more than three weeks after the Department announced more than one million FAFSA forms had been submitted and the form’s 24/7 accessibility.
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To further support schools and state agencies, the Department will begin transmitting batches of FAFSA information—known as the Institutional Student Information Record or ISIR—to these partners in the first half of March. Students will also be able to make corrections to their form starting in…
NASFAA Statement on 2024-25 FAFSA Launch Date . The FAFSA is expected to be ready for students to complete by December 31. The Department of Education has indicated that there may be a delay in delivering student information from the FAFSA to the school. This will delay the ability of schools to get aid evaluated and packaged, but they will work as quickly as they can.
What should you do?
Get ready in advance to the extent possible. Student and parent need to have their own studentaid.gov account in order to transfer information directly from the IRS (required) and to sign the FAFSA before submitting. Get that done now: Federal Student Aid . Already have an account? Make sure anyone in your family who already has an FSA account remembers their login information - by doing so now, you can get it resolved in advance if someone is unable to access their account.
Who is the “parent of record,” or FAFSA parent: NASFAA AskRegs: Who Is the Parent Of Record On the FAFSA Starting In 2…
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