@jarrett211 I’ll probably just have to take a loan from a bank LOL, and it’s cool. I’m not planning on going to Chicago even if I get in. 
@jarrett211 You got no aid and no scholarships or grants??
@HappyFace2018 I got offered a small unsubsidized stafford loan lol, and honestly, I’d rather borrow from my parents and pay them back later then take on those interest rates. Yeah I got no financial aid, no scholarships, and no grants. My parents combined make a bit over the generally accepted cutoff for aid. It’s not a big deal. It’s not a crippling amount of debt. I’m still going to Chicago in the fall, but yeah I got no money. I’ll try and negotiate with the Office of Financial Aid once I’m in campus in the coming years.
HappyFace2018 - it is a blessing. Congratulations to your daughter. All the best to her.
@HappyFace2018 Congrats on the scholarship though!! Wow $100,000 is amazing; a great opportunity for anyone. As for this whole FAFSA situation, in about 48 hours we can stop worrying! It does seems quite a few people still have it on the portal, and some don’t. Who knows?
I hadn’t been on this thread since January and a bit disconnected from college applications due to lots of schoolwork and family. Now, I suddenly realized that UChicago is releasing its decisions on Wednesday and I’m about to have a heart attack. Good luck to everyone; I just hope we’re able to survive this.
@kaukauna Thank you so much.
Son reports FAFSA is still there. (I pretended I needed to know if everything was done, don’t want to freak him out!)
Honestly all logic and reason tells me that the FAFSA thing doesn’t even matter, but I’ll say mine’s still there
Mine’s still there if that helps
Mine is here too, but I qualify for aid.
My FAFSA is no longer there, but all my other documents are.
I really hope and don’t think that it has anything to do with admissions. Bleh
I don’t think so honestly. Based on previous threads, people with the FAFSA have gotten waitlisted/accepted/rejected just as people without the FAFSA posted have gotten waitlisted/accepted/rejected. Let’s just hope for the best.
@omalette is correct I feel. I guess we might as well wait for Wednesday.
I’ll be so sad if the FAFSA situation means I got denied. 
You all are looking for signs that aren’t there. The only surefire sign is the rejection/waitlist email that awaits most of us in about 2 days.
Relax, eat some π and enjoy the gamble of applications.
I don’t think that the FAFSA not being there means you don’t need aid. My EFC is like 25,000 and my FAFSA isn’t there
Hey, I’ve been lurking around for a while. After getting rejected from my first choice school, I decided to start talking.
okay time for some more speculation…
does anybody else have messed up boxes (like the Upload Materials box, etc. are all much bigger than they used to be a few weeks ago for me)? I noticed this come up a while ago but nobody talked much about it.
I’m wondering about this because for Berkeley, before I got my decision, some text disappeared, and it was basically confirmed that those whose portals had the disappeared text got into Berkeley, and the others didn’t.
@Scriant someone mentioned that earlier too! Unfortunately my boxes are all normal