<p>I was wondering if colleges only will review your financial aid documents FAFSA, CSS profile ect, only for the admit pile, or do they review for all applicants regardless? I received a letter from Bryn Mawr college today that said:</p>
<p>We are currently reviewing financial aid applications for all Class of 2015 admissions candidates. In reviewing your application we found that the federal processor rejected your original FAFSA or subsequent corrections you submitted........ (I just corrected my fafsa so they will receive new version)</p>
<p>(then at the end it said)</p>
<p>We will not be able to enclose financial aid awards with admissions decisions for students who have not submitted all required forms by March 1st, 2011. </p>
<p>(Could they have sent me this letter, becuase I could possibly be in the "admitted" pile, even though they can't officially release those decisions yet? Would they have sent this kind of letter to alll applicants if they had the same FAFSA problem once they reivewed it, or do they only look at the FAFSA once you've been in the admit pile? I would think personally, they would only look at financial aid documents if you are in the admit pile, becuase other wise, what would be the point?)</p>
<p>I am sure they get all the documents in order for all applicants. They certainly don’t want to be scrambling in April if there are missing documents.</p>
<p>The answer depends on the school. Neither of the two schools I have worked at in recent years reviews the FAFSA until the student is admitted. I am fairly certain that schools that have April 1 admissions notification dates review prior to admission, though.</p>
<p>I called my DD top schools and they wait until they get the admitted list. My forms will be late because we are still waiting for a w2. I hope to get it all done next week.</p>
<p>No. Financial aid will be sifting through all of the files to make sure they are complete so that they can move very quickly when they get the admitted list. They do not do awards, as a rule, to those who are not admitted. Looking at the numbers of those who apply, you can see that it would be impossible to do. Also,funds are limited, so they have to be allocated to those admitted. IT’s not like they can do all of the awards before the admit list even if they had the man power to do so. But they are in the unfortunate position of having to very quickly put together packages very soon after getting the list of the admitted students. So they wan t to make sure all the ducks are in a row, because there is no way they can come up with a package for anyone who is missing vital data. So they if someone is missing something or other, they send a note so that the flle would be complete. It would be even more difficult to find a bunch of files all missing info while trying to make the deadline for the package, and that happens too, but they are anxious to cut down on how many such situations they have.</p>