Mark asks…
If you have a sibling that filled out FAFSA, is there anyway to transfer the information?
Both my brother & sister formerly filled out the FAFSA and now it’s my turn, but my brother told me that I don’t need to fill it out since he’s already done so. Does anybody know how to transfer the information?
Michelle answers:
You need to complete the FAFSA with your information and your parents’ information. Each person applies for financial aid using his/her own information, not that from a sibling If you use your sibling’s information, it could delay or even halt the processing of a financial aid application you submitted to a college.
Please complete the FAFSA with your information. I had a student use his sibling information, under the same premise, and it messed up his financial aid big time.
Nancy asks…
What do I need to do next after I completed my FAFSA online?
I have completed my FAFSA online a week ago. Then I got a email saying that my application has been processed and the data was made available to the school listed on my FAFSA. All I got left to do is print my Student Aid Report. Do I need to go to the Financial Aid office at the school for confirmation or does the school already has my financial aid?
Michelle answers:
Within the next two weeks, you school should get your fafsa information, depending on how often the school downloads the information. You can just send your Finaid office an email making sure that they did get your information and such.
Your next step varies. Do you want to get student loans? If so, step one is to get your student pin number that you used when filling out the FAFSA, next you want to fill out your promissory note. This is done at dlenote.ed.gov. This will ensure that you speed the process up.
Step two is to do the Loan Entrance Counseling. This is done at www.dl.ed.gov and pretty much all you do is read information and take a quiz to make sure you understand everything about having a loan. Pretty simple.
You do not need to send you school a copy of your SAR because they will retrieve the info on their own as long as you put down their school code. If you have already taken out loans, then you are not required to do another loan counseling or promissory note because they are only required the first time you take out student direct loans. And you do not need to fill it out if you want to reject the loans! Good luck.
Ruth asks…
If I turn in my FAFSA application late 3 days after deadline, will I get something?
The FAFSA deadline for us in California was March 2, 2010. I am planning on submitting my application today March 5, 2010 (3 days later). Will I still get some aid for being late?
Michelle answers:
Actually the deadline for FAFSA is many months away. You have simply missed the priority deadline for federal aid, but you have missed the state deadline, which is absolute. So you will not be able to get a state grant. But you will still be able to receive everything that you are eligible for from federal grants,work-study, and loans.
Mandy asks…
Is there a way to fill in your fafsa4caster with the answers from your fafsa?
The fafsa application for federal student aid has the fafsa4 caster that estimates how much aid the student will get. I answered and sent my fafsa before seeing this useful tool, now I have to rewrite everything in to get the fafsa4caster. Is there a way to open my account and just go to the fafsa4 caster?
Michelle answers:
No, the data transfer only goes the other way… 4caster to fafsa… Not fafsa to 4caster. Sorry
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