<p>Do colleges generally request parents tax returns in senior year? Even after financial aid application received and approved for senior year?</p>
<p>If you have been selected for FAFSA verification (an asterisk will appear after your EFC number on your SAR), the college may request tax returns. You would not receive a financial aid award letter until after submitting whatever forms the school has requested for verification.</p>
<p>Some colleges require tax returns as part of the financial aid process…and yes they do ask for updated ones sometimes after the financial aid award has been received. DD went to a Profile school and her school required updated tax returns. She received an estimated financial aid award from her school in Jan shortly after receiving her EA acceptance…our taxes had not even been filed. School required them to be sent when we filed them (after we did the FAFSA).</p>