<p>Interesting Article. How true is this and is it prevelant?
A bit worrying since I already submitted my FAFSA.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about things you can’t do anything about.</p>
<p>Use the search feature, this was discussed previously in the Financial Aid forum.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I wish I read this article before. They recommend listing the colleges alphabetically!..:(</p>
<p>It depends on whether the school is need-blind. For most schools, the FAFSA deadline is long after the RD deadline or most EA/ED announcement. It would not be practical to use this tactic for filtering applicants. Nevertheless, it may affect the FA decision.</p>
<p>I hope that’s the case, but not according to the article or am I reading too much into it?</p>
<p>Unless you have solid evidence that any of the places on your list would actually engage in this practice, you should ignore this article and move on. If you have solid evidence that they do, then drop them a line, tell them you saw their name in this article or a similar one, that you understand that they use FAFSA information in their enrollment management, that you can assure them that you are truly interested in attending their institution even though they are item #10 on the list on your FAFSA, and that you will be very interested in attending should you be admitted with an affordable aid package.</p>
<p>But frankly, any place that doesn’t like you because of where you listed them on your FAFSA is a place that doesn’t merit receiving one cent of your tuition money. Just sayin’</p>
<p>You simply have too many things to worry. Just leave this off the list. It certainly would not be a common practice just for the timing reason I mentioned above. It may play a role if you are on the wait list though as that decision comes much later and the school really wants to fill the seat by that time.</p>