<p>I did the FAFSA estimate for two kids a couple of weeks ago- neither was selected for verification.</p>
<p>Tonight I got an email that a correction had been processed on one of my kids- I did not do anything, so I logged in and the only difference I see off hand is that it is selected for verification- which is no problem, it's just weird that it did not show up with the asterisk and now does, as if some one did it on purpose. I am assuming maybe her school did that.</p>
<p>But now, I got another email, on my other kid, who is not in school yet and now hers is corrected, too.</p>
<p>Different schools, so what does that signify.</p>
<p>I have been doing this long enough that I am not nervous about verification the way some one might be the first year, when you take it personally. But I am wondering why two FAFSAs for two kids would be "corrected" to that status, esp when they are both estimated and I am not even done yet, and it did not randomly select them the first time.</p>
<p>This is what it says:</p>
<p>This SAR was produced because we have processed a change to your information
based on information reported to us by another agency or as a result of a
processing system change. Please review your SAR to see what effect, if any,
this change has had on your application.</p>
<p>If it is different schools, then it must be the "system" but why?</p>
<p>The only thing I can think of, and that is by NO means professional or anything, is that maybe one of the schools found something and corrected it. That happened to us last year. I submitted my FAFSA to 8 schools (two transactions-- at the time you could only do 6 at a time). All was well, until I got a similar email to yours. One of the schools found a number I had left out and corrected it, which corrected both transactions going to all the schools. I called FAFSA to ask how this one school could do it, and the person said that they could. That was all the explanation I got. I still think it was weird that this happened. It was a legitimate mistake on my part, and it's good it was discovered, even though it increased my EFC by a bit. But I felt weird anyway. I would say call FAFSA; the people are very nice. Ask them what's up.</p>
<p>I had this email as well. From what I could tell, it looked like possibly they had gone out to my D's high school for info on whether or not she qualified for that extra grant money for having a rigorous HS course load?</p>
<p>I also received this e-mail this morning, went through line by line and found a new page with Stafford loan information included. Did not change her EFC.</p>
<p>Well, good to hear other people got it, too, you would think after 7 years fo doing the forms that I would have seen everything, and heard it all on CC.</p>
<p>But, I will admit, due to general laziness, indolence even, I was pleased not to be selected for verificaition, for once, as it was so much easier not to make all those copies.</p>
<p>I received one of these emails this am also.
Son is senior in college so we've been doing these things for several years and this is first time for a 'correction'.
I went online and printed it out but haven't compared it line by line to my 'original' submitted one month ago. Weird since we too haven't finished taxes yet so the original was still estimated.
NOt worried, just one more thing to think about!</p>
<p>Have your students, by any chance, expressed interest on the FAFSA in taking coursework to become a teacher? I heard that they had to re-process loads of applications for some reason or another where that criteria was met.</p>
<p>Mmmm, our son is an education major.
I do remember some recent aid available for certain majors, including educatin. Pretty sure there were income limits that we exceeded to make it applicable for our family.</p>
<p>You have to love CC, the govt changes something, which is not even noticed by all of us, but results in a noticeable change in the process- a processed "correction" to our FAFSA which none of us made and which I know for certain was not school generated. That is a bit scary, some one correcting your FAFSA and all, now our question is answered by one of our experts, who really do give much better answers than those given when one calls in to the FAFSA toll free #.</p>