<p>Do colleges really consider where else you are applying by seeing which schools you listed on your FAFSA? That's kind of messed up.</p>
<p>Can we submit, say, 5 FAFSAs, each with two or three schools listed?</p>
<p>I have to admit I was at first thinking of the impact to the ADMISSION process.</p>
<p>What is the impact to the <em>financial aid process</em> if a college sees all those other schools to which you applied, and were accepted into?</p>
<p>might they say, 'you really don't love me as much as you indicated in the application for admission. Hurrumph, I think I will take our financial aid dollars and not give them to one such as you. good luck in trying to pay for college'. ?</p>
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<p>I did. I split up my schools with 2/1 deadlines and I plan to do the same for the 2/15 deadlines. I grouped similar schools together and listed them alphabetically.</p>
<p>I don't really know what impact it will have on admission or financial aid, but after reading about the topic of colleges being able to see the information I discussed it with my parents and they agreed it couldn't hurt to do it this way.</p>
<p>Just wanted to add that they are really not separate fafsas. They are really versions, just that each version has different schools. You create the versions by adding and deleting schools.</p>
<p>do the colleges only see the SAR (student aid report), and do they see the SAR as a hardcopy report?</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>do colleges 'look up' the fafsa data through some sort of system, and so, if the fafsa changes, they will see the changes when they look it up later?</p>
<p>if the former - then the info will be whatever the SAR that they recvd in the mail, says.</p>
<p>Schools receive a form similiar to the SAR, called an ISIR (Institutional Report). It contains all the same information as the SAR. Some schoolsreceive this in hard copy format, while others download the data into software. They can also look at the main FAFSA database and see how many transactions exist for a particular student. However, if their school code is not listed on a certain transaction, then they cannot view the actual contents of that transaction.</p>
<p>it shouldn't affect it..should it...doesn't the fafsa or css go to the financial aid office...not the admission office..</p>