<p>I just finished filling out the FAFSA formed and I submitted it. Then I discovered that I was supposed to list colleges based on which ones I want to attend the most!</p>
<p>Ughhh, is it possible to change this???</p>
<p>It doesn’t make any difference what order you put school codes on the FAFSA.</p>
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<p>Where on earth did you hear this?</p>
<p>Good heavens, I know I have far too much to do to bother looking at the other colleges you sent your FAFSA to … much less the order in which you listed them. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for your answers :)</p>
<p>I just saw this on the website:
“While completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), you must list at least one college to receive your information. You should list your first choice college first, second choice second, and so on.”</p>
<p>That’s what made me wonder whether or not it is important to list them in order!</p>
<p>That’s weird that the website says that. It really doesn’t matter. If it did, it would say “must”. The “should” is meaningless since it makes no difference. </p>
<p>It’s not as if you’ll get more aid from School X if you list it first. Besides, a person’s “first choice” could change between the time you file FAFSA and the time you decide a college.</p>
<p>Wow it really does say that. Shame on the FAFSA. It makes not a lick of difference.</p>
<p>I saw it when I was completing it - and it has the arrows on the side to move schools up and down - so we put them in roughly the right order. Guess it comes from me being an accountant. I always read all the instructions - particularly on financial paperwork.</p>
<p>The only suggestion that makes sense for listing schools in order is that if you have more than 10 and the deadlines are approaching, you might consider listing them in deadline order so that you have time to wait for the first batch to be processed before deleting them and then entering the next batch.</p>
<p>There has to be a reason for it. Maybe, before they used this language, they were getting complaints from kids who’d submitted the form with no college names at all, or just one college name, thinking the info would automatically go everywhere it needed to. So they figured they’d not only say to include a college name (or two or three), but also to put them in order of importance . . . so at least the kid couldn’t come back later complaining that the only school that got the info was the one they didn’t care about!</p>
<p>I dunno, just a guess. But what a ridiculously stupid instruction!</p>