Fafsa Help!!!

Paying for College
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<p>i completed and submitted the fafsa online using my PIN signature but then i got an email (after i had submitted it) saying:</p>

<p>"Dear *****,</p>

<p>We received your 2006-2007 Free Application for Federal Student Aid that you
filed through the Web.</p>

<p>We cannot process your application information without your signature. When you
submitted your application, we informed you that signatures were needed. You
told us that you would either electronically sign with your PIN or mail in a
signature page.</p>

<p>If you have your PIN, follow the instructions found at <a href="http://www.fafsa.ed.gov%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.fafsa.ed.gov&lt;/a> to
electronically sign.</p>

<p>If you printed a signature page, please sign and mail it immediately to the
address printed on the signature page.</p>

<p>Don't have a PIN? Apply for one now at <a href="http://www.pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/appinstr.jsp%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/appinstr.jsp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>After we receive your signatures, we will send you a separate e-mail message
containing a link to your Student Aid Report (SAR) on the Web.</p>

<p>To check the status of your application, go to <a href="http://www.fafsa.ed.gov%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.fafsa.ed.gov&lt;/a> and select
"Check Status of a submitted FAFSA".</p>

<p>If you have questions, call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at
1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243).</p>

<p>Thank You,</p>

<p>U.S. Department of Education
Federal Student Aid</p>

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<p>so what am i supposed to do? when is it the deadline for california residents?</p>

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<p>b u m p</p>

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<p>Did you fill out one for the student and one for the parent?</p>

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<p>Go back in and make sure you sign with both student pin sig and one parent pin sig. Deadline is dependent on the school.</p>

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<p>i applied (and received my student pin) but for my parents i put "didnt have one"</p>

<p>could that be the problem?</p>

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<p>Yup.</p>

<p>Needs to be electronically signed by one parent. Go get a parent pin.</p>

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<p>At this point it might be faster to go back and print out the parent signature page, have your mom or dad sign -- and drop it in the mail. (You can do both of course. If you get the parent's PIN before the paper signature has been processed, then you can go ahead and electronically sign)</p>

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<p>When I applied for a pin for myself and my parents back in January, the pins were emailed the next day.</p>

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<p>thanks for ur advice. my dad applied for a pin a few hours ago. so i should get it by tommorrow?</p>

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<p>I'm not sure if they process on the weekends, but you should have it Monday (almost) for sure.</p>

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<p>i am worried cuz my dad still hasnt recieved his pin number. the deadline for fafsa is in less than a week. should i call fafsa?</p>

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<p>I think you are supposed to allow three days or so for PIN. I don't think calling FAFSA will help. You just have to wait.....</p>

<p>Or you can mail in the signature page as Calmom suggested</p>

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<p>The time that it takes for the PIN varies - thats why I say to go ahead and mail the signature page. The problem is that even when you have the PIN it sometimes doesn't work. Every time I enter my PIN on my daughter's FAFSA I get an error message saying that Social Security cannot verify my info - this happened with the original FAFSA and with the correction. But then I went to son my son's FAFSA online, using the exact same PIN.... and it went through fine. I called FAFSA to ask why it would work for my son and not for my daughter and of course they didn't have a clue -- they just said that there is a "glitch" in the system that they are aware of.</p>

<p>So you can wait for the PIN and then hope you don't run into the same glitch, or you can print out a one page form, get your dad to sign it, stick a stamp on it and put in the mail. When I mailed the form before it was processed within 2 days -- so as far as I can tell, it was processed the same day they received the mail. </p>

<p>I don't believe there is a "hard" deadline for FAFSA -- that is, if it is due March 1st and actually gets processed March 3rd, I don't think it makes much of a difference for financial aid. The colleges aren't looking for a date stamp or postmark, they are looking to have the info available when they need it. The problem is that colleges will have their own practices and if the info isn't there when they try to download it whenever they get around to working on your file, then you will have problems. So you do want it in right away, but you shouldn't panic over whether it is going to end up getting processed a day or so late. </p>

<p>I know for a fact that the first thing a financial aid office does when they are missing any piece of information is send a letter or make a phone call to the student -- some colleges have online systems that you can check to see status of the financial aid documents -- if so, its important to check there for messages as well.</p>