ED Acceptees, When is the FAFSA due?

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<p>ED Acceptees, When is the FAFSA due?</p>

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<p>Feb 11 For Paper Version.</p>

<p>Feb 25 For Online Version.</p>

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<p>What does Columbia need our FAFSA for, anyway?</p>

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<p>For adjusting the finaid estimate "awarded" in December. They got last year's I think and they need the new one.</p>

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<p>How is the estimate adjusted? Do they average the two or what? Because the family contribution on the paper in Dec is twice as much as the FAFSA preliminary EFC...</p>

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<p>Yeah the December papers weren't too pretty for me either. . . . They probably switch to the new FAFSA and ignore the old one. I think you should mention the FAFSA preliminary EFC to Columbia and ask why there's such a big difference between the two.</p>

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<p>The FAFSA preliminary EFC (if I'm not mistaken) is the <em>government's</em> analysis of what you can pay. The FAFSA doesn't take home equity into account, along with a lot of other things that Columbia does concern itself with, so Columbia's estimate of your EFC will probably be higher than the FAFSA estimate.</p>

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<p>Nice of them.</p>