I was planning to update my daughter’s FAFSA today to “have filed” and try to use the data retrieval tool to grab the info from the IRS and can’t because a college submitted a correction. I knew they could do that, but am unsure what they might be correcting and why would they correct anything before I’ve actually finalized it with my actual tax information?
You can see the change that the college made. Look at it carefully and make sure you were actually incorrect. A college did the same to me last year and they were 100% wrong.
I’m not sure I get this at all… The only changes were switching back to the 10 schools I listed when it was submitted. Why and HOW would a college manage to do that since I was under the understanding that schools could no longer see who else your FAFSA was submitted to.
Can you call the school and ask what is going on? I also don’t understand why they would change something before actual tax info was submitted.
Schools cannot see the other schools, which means that no school made the change you are talking about in post #2 (changing the school names, that is). Did you submit, then change schools, then submit again? If so, and a school from the first set of schools made a change, then you will see those schools again as the active transaction in your account (but the second set of schools will still see only their info, not the newest info).
If there is no change in any of the information … compare it to the FIRST FAFSA you submitted … then whatever was done was something that made no difference to anything (and therefore doesn’t matter).
Thank you, kelsmom, that probably explains it. I don’t know which college it was because all it says is “College”. But I compared all three SARs and the only thing that changed was the schools, so no idea what was done.
Dede ^^
As long as nothing changed, don’t worry about it. There are things that a school might have done on purpose (for example, to update to on-campus if all freshmen are required to live on-campus) or by accident (change made, then fixed) that won’t make a difference for the EFC. If all is good, then let this be one less thing to worry you.