My son’s FAFSA shows it was submitted and sent to schools on October 31. However his MIT portal shows only the CSS Profile and IDOC documents received, but not FAFSA. IDOC docs were uploaded several days after the FAFSA was filed. Am I just being too impatient, or should we be contacting the financial aid office to check on this at this point. The priority deadline is the end of November.
Schools gather FAFSA filing in batches so it may be that MIT didn’t ‘pulled’ and sorted them yet, but it does seem like 10 days should be enough time at this time of the year.
I’d call and ask when you should expect it to show up.
Thanks @twoinanddone we’ll give it a few more days before calling – I’m sure they’re quite busy this time of year!
Just curious, where exactly on the myMIT portal does this CSS and FAFSA information shown?
I am checking with my son and we don’t see it anywhere …
Sorry, I am not sure. My son navigated there himself and just showed me.
@mathmomvt I submitted FAFSA on Oct 2 and it still shows as not received, I believe they may do it a later time
@jamgolf If you go on MyMIT, a new red box with the words “Financial Aid” should have appeared under the checklist of requirements. This has the information you’re looking for
Thanks for the response. We do not see a red box.
All we see under Application Tracking is:
Application Part 1 [PDF]
Application Part 2 [PDF]
Application Fee
Secondary School Report and Transcript
Evaluation A
Evaluation B
February Updates & Notes Form
Testing Requirements
@jamgolf did your son maybe accidentally say you weren’t applying for financial aid when he submitted the application?
Hmm - I am actually not sure. I don’t think so. I certainly hope not.
@jamgolf I think if you are not even seeing the finaid section in your son’s portal, that is definitely worth checking with MIT about. I’m not sure if you should start with the admissions or the finaid department, but I’d lean toward admissions since they are probably “in charge of” the portal. Good luck!
I am not sure where we see this information. OP, can you please provide the steps. We sent CSS and FAFSA but I don’t know where we can check on that. Also, is idoc required for MIT as I have not been around to fill that.
IDOC is required for MIT, and it takes IDOC a few days to process your docs before the school can see them, so if your student is applying EA you should check into that ASAP.
I’m not sure how to find it on the portal. I don’t have access to my son’s portals, but he checked for me and said that CSS/IDOC were showing as received and FAFSA was not, as of last week. I just asked him to check again and now it is showing up as received.
@mathmomvt Would you please ask your son where he sees the financial aid statuses ? Because we have not seen anywhere on the portal.
My S says:
log in. Below blue box that says Application Tracking there’s a red box that says Financial Aid. There’s a link that says “Click here for your financial aid requirements and instructions.”
Not like Common Application, which has a question"Do you intend to pursue need-based financial aid?", MIT application doesn’t ask for this, am I right?
My son myMIT portal was not showing the red financial aid banner/button (even though we had completed FAFSA and CSS profile), so we contacted the admissions office and they were able to make the change. It took a few days for the button to appear on his portal.
Thank you @mathmomvt and @Fibbonachi10 for the info/advice.