<p>I'm applying to competitive colleges as a member of the class of 2014. My dad and I had an agreement that he would fill out all of the financial aid forms if I searched my colleges' websites and found out what was due when. I made a list of every deadline for every college and gave it to him. I checked a few days later and he said not to worry about it. I checked again on deadlines (March 15th, February 1st, etc.) and he again told me that he had taken care of it.</p>
<p>A couple weeks ago, I got an e-mail from one of my safeties warning me that my financial aid application was incomplete. I forwarded the e-mail to my dad and told him about it. Again, "Don't worry about it." A week later, I got another e-mail: "URGENT: Financial Aid Application still not completed!" So I confronted him more directly; he admitted that he may not have done it. I was of course furious, but I can't do a whole lot; if I got visibly mad at him, he would just get mad at me and put it off even longer. So I nicely asked him to do it as soon as possible, reminding him that my financial aid would depend on it (my parents are helping a lot with my tuition, but only because they value education so much, not because we're rich; we can't afford college without financial aid). He said he would do it. I thought that he simply didn't do this safety's forms because he has (unrealistic) high expectations and thought it was ridiculous that I applied there in the first place. That of course didn't make it okay, but I was less concerned since it isn't a school I was particularly excited about anyway.</p>
<p>Then, today, I got an e-mail from a school that I would love to attend. It said that my financial aid application was incomplete. Now I'm really freaking out and I don't know if he did ANY of them, let alone the safeties! I'm considering deferring whatever college I get into to take a gap year and my dad's habit of missing deadlines may make this financially necessary, but I'm beginning to worry: can missing financial aid deadlines have any impact on the rest of the application? In other words, can this chronic lateness get me rejected?</p>
<p>Sorry if the answer is here already; I searched and didn't find anything. Thanks for the help!</p>