<p>Hi,
Has anyone received a message that they still haven't filed their fafsa and they have?
I did ours about a week ago and have confirmation numbers and emails confirming it with EFC numbers, etc.
Today I got this email:
This is to remind you that you or your student have started and saved a 2011-2012 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on the Web but have not submitted it yet. </p>
<p>I'll call if tomorrow it is the same, but it gave me pause.</p>
<p>“Stuff” doesn’t happen in a day in any office and passes through multiple hands…my guess is they checked a week ago and they didn’t send the e-mail until before they left the office on Friday…call tomorrow just to double check.</p>
<p>debruns…where did the email come from…the FAFSA website? If so, just go and check and make SURE you submitted it. </p>
<p>There are some funny things going on with the FAFSA website this year, reportedly. Many folks here have reported snafus in higher numbers than I recall in the past.</p>
<p>Oh I didn’t think about the FAFSA sending the e-mail. I got “reminder” e-mail also to fill out the FAFSA but long after I had submitted and received the processed e-mail and printed the SAR. I assumed the OP got the e-mail from the college.</p>
<p>I just wondered HOW a college would know that the student or parent started a FAFSA IF they didn’t submit it to that college…just wondered.</p>
<p>LOL, you did a better job of r-e-a-ding the OP’s post than I did!</p>
<p>Oh, it was from fafsa, not a college. I thought it odd, that they sent me a confirmation number and SAR and EFC amount previously (wont go there)</p>
<p>If I hadn’t gotten the email and confirmation number I would have understood, but when I log on through the email, it brings me to the last page of the fafsa after I sign in. I don’t want to resend it and cause more issues…just when I was saying to a friend, so happy to have the fafsa and CSS Profile done. : ?</p>
<p>My husband thinks it could be a weekend maintenance thing and wait until Monday to call.</p>
<p>Did you happen to submit to more than 10 colleges?</p>
<p>What happens if you go directly to FAFSA.gov and enter the info and don’t use the link in the e-mail?</p>
<p>I have returning twins, so I did one for each of them to one college. What’s weird is if I log on the fafsa site, it takes me there and says it’s not completed. BUT if I call fafsa, although they are closed and ask for status of application with the automated system, it says it was processed 02/28 and an email was sent to me and to whatever colleges I put down.</p>
<p>I’m with your husband…wait until Monday and see what happens.</p>
<p>Did you get this message for BOTH of your twins or just one?</p>
<p>Both, but both checked out fine when I called. I think it might be a snafoo online, was just momentarily a bit scary because you know how the schools and government can’t have enough forms and if one is missing you don’t exist.
I had this vision of me sending the fafsa over and over and it never getting there and the college telling me, “Sorry, without the form, there’s nothing we can do”. lol</p>
<p>The other thing you can do is call the college…they may not have uploaded the FAFSA yet…but maybe they did. If they have, they will be able to tell you if yours were in the uploaded batch.</p>
<p>Our college has not posted any financial aid info yet and does not show FAFSA as being submitted. And we did it january 3rd. We emailed and they said it is early in the process and you will be contacted if/when more info is needed. Really stressing me out. I don’t think it has ever been so late for them to start processing. We did have several days of closings due to bad weather, but still.</p>
<p>I will check tomorrow, thanks for the tip, re the colleges, just as an added confidence.</p>
<p>Just for clarification, this wasn’t from the college, it was a fafsa email from Fafsa. I think it was electronically sent out, got both for twins within seconds of each other and it was a mistake. It will be quite a while I’m sure before the college looks at mine being returning students.</p>
<p>Is your student an incoming freshman or beyond swimscatmom?</p>
<p>Mines a senior so we have been through the process before. I am pretty sure it has never taken more than a couple of weeks after submission for the FAFSA to appear as having been submitted on her student page. On the other hand we have never submitted quite so early before. Last year we filed a couple of weeks later than usual and she missed out on some grants and WS she had received in previous years, so this year we filed really early. Over 2 months since we filed so really nervous and frustrated right now!! I even went back into the FAFSA to make sure we hadn’t put a wrong school code or something. </p>
<p>But even her continuing merit scholarship is not posted yet, so I guess they are just slower this year.</p>
<p>Maybe they are concentrating on the freshman first. Both my girls have nothing new on their FA sites, but at least nothing is owed either.</p>
<p>RE: the message from FAFSA … did you or your child go in after processing to make corrections, then hit save at some point without submitting anything? Some students have told me about this, and I don’t remember it happening in past years. Must be new this year. I think students were making corrections but not actually submitting them. Did you update from estimated taxes to actual, then perhaps not actually submit (even if you thought you did)? </p>
<p>Go to the FAFSA website and pull up a copy of your Student Aid Report (or copy of your FAFSA - not sure how they phrase it). Look it over line by line. Is all of it correct? No error messages? If so, sounds like all is well.</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom, as long as you have a valid EFC and are certain that the school code is correct, you should be fine. Schools have to get their computer systems all set up for the new year, which isn’t always easy. We just pulled FAFSA’s into our system this week.</p>