I have filed my 2014 taxes and would like to update the FAFSA and CSS to reflect the correct numbers. They are about 25K off on income… don’t even get me started on how I screwed that up. So do I just go in to each website and correct everything that was wrong from my 2014 tax return? And he applied to 15 schools so I did them in two batches, one of five schools and then again with the last 10 schools… do I do that again?
I might be wrong, but you cannot change anything in CSS once you are done. You have to contact each individual school to let them about the change. It will be a lot of work.
Regarding to FAFSA, yes, you could make changes online, but you’ve got to cover every school. So that will be at least 2 batches as you can only do 10 at most in 1 batch.
^ Pretty much correct. Some CSS schools will ask for a print out of the Profile with blue line changes, some will ask for the filled out tax documents, some will use the FAFSA updates and make their own corrections. Check with the schools on how they want the info.
I did end up calling CSS. I was able to change the information for the 4 schools I had not sent to yet since they have march 1st deadlines, but I do have to contact each one of the first 10 schools to see how they want me to update.
FAFSA I corrected and resubmitted to the 10 schools group and then will change those schools to the other 5 when I get the processed email.
Oh boy wrights1994, I"m in the same boat. I overestimated (really made a mistake, not overestimated lol) my income by nearly $8K (20%) and I think it will make a substantial difference in the 100% need figures. I sent the profile to all the schools when I sent the FAFSA so they all have the higher figures. Alot of the schools deadlines were Feb 1st so there’s no way my taxes would have been completed by then anyways. I’m waiting for my taxes to be completed, hopefully by tomorrow. Should I send an email to each school FINAID dept and ask what I should do? I am hoping to send out everything to IDOC by snail mail Monday.
NEPatsGirl, I have not done IDOC yet as you can only do it for schools you have been admitted to and the only one he is admitted to that requires it is Villanova and he is not planning on attending as the $20K scholarship does not make a dent in the cost for us. But I called each school I needed to about the CSS and emailed them a scan of the one page that had corrections. Also updated FAFSA for 10 schools but have not gotten the processed email yet to be able to put in the last 5.