<p>I am contemplating going back to school to work on my masters. I need to complete FAFSA for S who will be a freshman next year. Is this considered 2 in college, or do they only look at kids? I'm not sure when I will have this all confirmed.</p>
<p>Your son needs to complete his own fafsa… not you. And on his fafsa he can only include 1 college student in the household. When you do YOUR fafsa you can put 2, both him and you.</p>
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<p>Why don’t you stop posting such nonsense? There is absolutely no requirement that the student complete their own FAFSA and parents are REQUIRED to attest to the accuracy and veracity of the data provided. With the complexity, number of potential errors, and potential cost of such errors, I think that very few savvy parents would entrust the entire FAFSA process to their inexperienced 17 or 18 year old. Really, one would think someone who claims to work in financial aid would know better!</p>
<p>In fact, it may make more sense for the parents to complete the FAFSA, given that they have all of the requisite information (tax forms, W-2s, SSNs for both parents, assets, cash held in accounts, etc.) Likely two working adults understand the forms far better than a 17-year-old high school kid.</p>
<p>I filled out my own FAFSA when I was 18 because my parents had never been to college and had no idea how to approach it. Looking back I’m pretty sure I did something wrong, because my EFC as I got it in 2004 was WAY higher than what the Finaid.org estimator says it should’ve been (and I used the 2003-2004 tables).</p>
<p>Anyway, FAFSA4EVER is right about the other thing - parents can’t be counted as ‘in college’ on children’s forms, but children can be counted on parents’ forms. So your form will say 2, but his can only say 1.</p>
<p>Ok, then I don’t have to worry about firming up my situation before filing his FAFSA. That’s all I needed to know.</p>