<p>Since the amount of Financial Aid will factor into my S's college decision, we listed all schools he applied to on the Fafsa app., however we're limited to only 10 schools. I was informed by Fafsa help desk that we had to remove one in order to add another school. </p>
<p>Does anyone know if removing a school from the list will in any way jeopardize his eligibility to receive assistance from that school which was removed? Since he hasn't heard back from several of the schools we'd like to keep all options open.</p>
<p>Any advice is appreciated....</p>
<p>Doesn’t hurt at all. Lots of people apply to more than 10 schools. You just submit a “correction” consisting of removing some school(s) and adding other(s). The school(s) you remove will still have access to the previously processed version of your FAFSA.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight.</p>
<p>“lots of people” don’t apply to more than ten colleges, but never fear there is a method to handle this. Once the first ten are processed you can go back in remove them and add the next bunch and wait until those are processed. It’s processed when you receive the e-mail from FAFSA or it will say when you open the FAFSA and you can see that it has processed. Normally just takes a couple days. If you have to go back in to change anything you repeat the process. Put ten in, wait until processed. Delete those, add the next bunch wait until processed and so forth. The good news next year there will only be one (hopefully.)</p>
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<p>Isn’t this a tad gratuitous?</p>
<p>Not really. Not intended that way. Fact is most kids do NOT apply to more than 10 colleges but there is away around the ten lines on the FAFSA for the small percentage of kids that do apply to more than 10. Collegeboard had an estimate and if I remember it was something like 10% of all college bound kids apply to more than 7.</p>
<p>However, I didn’t write “most kids,” I wrote “lots of people” – which could mean almost anything. It was purely an attempt on my part to offer reassurance to the OP, so I was disconcerted by the correction.</p>
<p>The reassurance from this OP is appreciated, as was the advice/comments from all who responded to my question…helpful.</p>