<p>I have not started the FAFSA yet for the year of '14-'15 (since it is not open yet). But I was wondering, the taxes were already done for this year, but a couple months after, my dad had quit his job and is now unemployed, but since taxes were done already, it shows my dad's salary for the 2012 year. Is there a spot where I can include this? I plan on applying to University of Washington and it is out of state for me, so the tuition is even higher for me now with this situation.</p>
<p>I work now too, but I just got a job this year so I didn't fill out anything. Also if I get this internship, I may have to quit since the hours for the internship will make it impossible to work and go to school.</p>
<p>Your FAFSA for 14-15 will include income from 2013. Income in 2012 won’t matter.</p>
<p>If after you file the 14-15 FAFSA, one of your parents would lose or change a job and the family income is affected negatively, you should contact the financial aid office at any college/university you have applied to and ask about the steps to follow. There may even be a form for that right on their website.</p>
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<p>So, just to be clear, you are doing all this advance planning just so you can apply to a school you can’t afford?</p>
<p>I’d strongly suggest you spend some time between now and next January finding and applying to at least one school you can afford! No matter what your FAFSA says, Washington is NOT going to give you a break on your tuition. You’ll qualify for federal loans, and maybe even a federal grant, but those won’t come close to making a dent in Washington’s out-of-state cost of attendance.</p>
<p>There are very few schools that will meet a student’s full financial need, and Washington isn’t one of them. So you need to either apply and be accepted to one of those highly selective schools . . . or find a school you can afford. That affordable school could be (1) your in-state public or (2) a school (public or private) where you know you would qualify for sufficient merit aid to be able to attend. (And I’d strongly suggest focusing on schools where the merit aid is [automatic](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-7.html#post15895768][b]automatic[/b][/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1348012-automatic-full-tuition-full-ride-scholarships-7.html#post15895768)</a>.)</p>
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Actually, the tuition hasn’t changed, but your ability to pay for it has. I agree with Dodgersmom that you need to reassess your school choice. UW won’t give OOS students FA.</p>
<p>Oh that’s right… I forgot… FAFSA is due in Febish… I kept thinking it was during when you apply haha</p>
<p>I’m not saying I’m not going to apply to others… I’m just saying that this is my first choice. My friend for her freshman year received financial aid in grants and then just 8k in loans. She and I live in the same state, so it is not impossible. Also… my question wasn’t exactly answered… as small as a possibility it is, it is a possibility.</p>
<p>In the end, a choice about a college or university shouldn’t be a matter of cost but a matter of where my major/career choice is. I am applying because it is a top choice for my major. Schools around here for my major are graduate schools. Thus, as an undergraduate student, it means nothing to me at this time.</p>
<p>I meant the tuition situation…</p>
<p>Xoxo, I hate to be the bearer of bad news…but the cost of attending really needs to be on your radar screen. There is NO tuition fairy out there. It doesn’t matter how wonderful,the school is for your major. The fact is, if you cannot pay the cost of attending, then you cannot attend that school.</p>
<p>As long as you have affordable options, go ahead and apply wherever you choose. But you need to understand that if the only isn’t there, you won’t be able to attend.</p>
<p>I doubt that your OOS friend got full aid to UWash as an OOS student unless she got a huge merit scholarship (which isn’t based on need).</p>
<p>Maybe your friend still has instate status in Wash even if she’s living in your state? That is possible for some situations.</p>
<p>Or maybe she had aid from another source (GI Bill from a parent, etc).
You do have to be concerned about cost.</p>
<p>I suggest you try the NPC at UW, to get an idea of how much aid you can expect:</p>
<p><a href=“Student Financial Aid”>Student Financial Aid;
<p>I don’t really see any scholarships available to OOS students: [Student</a> Office of Financial Aid](<a href=“Student Financial Aid”>Student Financial Aid)</p>
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<p>With all due respect . . . are you out of your mind???</p>
<p>If your major is so obscure that only a few schools offer it, then it can probably wait until grad school. And if ANY school offers it that’s more affordable than Washington, then that’s where your focus should be.</p>
<p>Unless you have unlimited financial resources, cost always matters.</p>
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In the end, a choice about a college or university shouldn’t be a matter of cost but a matter of where my major/career choice is.
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<p>I’m always amazed by this kind of thinking unless a family is so affluent that they’ll pay no matter what the cost or location.</p>
<p>xoxo…your college costs have to be paid. If your parents won’t pay the costs at a school that’s not going to give you the aid that you need, then you’ll find yourself at a school and no one to pay the bills. </p>
<p>What is your major that is so unique that Calif schools don’t offer it as an undergrad? What do Calif students usually choose as an undergrad major and then later choose your major for grad school?</p>
<p>Since I’ve run the NPC on UWash’s website and it clearly indicates that they don’t give much money to OOS students, I suspect that the “friend” isn’t telling the truth, has some kind of outside funding (like VA bennies), has instate status for some reason, or her parents took out a Plus Loan and the student thinks that is “free money”.</p>
<p>Edited to add…just saw that the OP is a Transfer student. That makes things worse FA wise. I doubt she’ll get any free money.</p>
<p>*Are there any scholarships for out of state students I can apply to? (Early Childhood and Family Studies Major)</p>
<p>I can only attend if I can get enough money out of the government and university. Which is why I couldn’t attend as a freshman in the first place.*</p>
<p>Your major is Early Childhood and you think you have to go OOS for that? </p>
<p>I think you need to invest your time into finding an affordable Calif school. You’re not going to get the money for UW. You already tried that as an incoming frosh and didn’t get enough money. You’re not going to get the money as a transfer. </p>
<p>Even if your family’s EFC dropped to ZERO, you’d only get about $5600 from the federal gov’t. Calif isn’t going to give you money to go to school in Wash. And Wash isn’t going to give a Calif student money to go there, either.</p>
<p>In the fall of 2011, my dd applied to UW as an OOS student to try to get into their pre-med program; as an AP, honor student and athlete, she was immediately accepted. </p>
<p>That being said, her fees/housing to attend were 50K; she did receive loans but they weren’t enough to begin to cover her costs. We told her we couldn’t pay since we were already paying for her sister’s tuition at another school. Our daughter wasn’t offered ANY merit aid or financial aid other than her loans. NONE. </p>
<p>So, she’s happy and doing well at her UC.</p>
<p>IF YOU ARE INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY, then you are right, in the end it should be about the major and career choice. BUT for those of us parents and students who live in the real world, COST DOES MATTER! Ask your parents if they can afford $200,000 for your college costs. Given that you’re basing attendance on receiving FA, I bet your parents cannot afford this cost. Additionally I seriously doubt you can work full time and make 50k per year while you go to school.</p>
<p>Your friend, in 4 years, still will owe, at least, 32K. That’s a lot of money. It may not seem to you as if that amount is not a lot, but it is a lot of money.</p>
<p>Wait a minute, you’re going into early childhood education??? </p>
<p>A staple college major at all California State universities??? SDSU, Northridge, CAL State LA, Channel Islands, Cal State San Marcos, San Jose, Bakersfield, San Bernardino, Fresno State. </p>
<p>To earn just barely over minimum wage, you want to go to UW and pay $50K per year to earn about 18K per year when you graduate?</p>
<p>I think you need to see your counselor at your high school and, PLEASE take your parents, to discuss your future plans. You need to do some more research at the Cal State schools, and learn some budgeting skills.</p>
<p>So now I get your situation:
(putting on mind-reading spectacles)
- You are a transfer student from a California community college who couldn’t afford to go with your friend to UW as a freshman.</p>
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<li><p>You hope that UW will reverse itself and fund your full tuition/fees so that you can go up and play with your friend.</p></li>
<li><p>Major course of study doesn’t matter, because if it did, you would have checked the California State colleges and seen that ECE is offered. It is not offered too much at the UC’s. But this is really not relevant because you want to go to UW at all costs, and want Washington taxpayers to fund your education. (Maybe you didn’t know about the two systems of education in California-University of California and California State Uni’s?)</p></li>
<li><p>You’re a transfer student and you can’t figure out if the UW essay should be single or double-spaced and you’re not aware that transfer students get less FA than freshman.</p></li>
<li><p>You haven’t figured out that Washington taxpayers also have in-state students who are also majoring in ECE and will be funded before a OOS transfer student is funded.</p></li>
<li><p>You don’t seem to have involved your parents in the process. Your parents can help you read through items that you seriously need to evaluate. You need their help to fill out the FAFSA.</p></li>
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<p>BOTTOM LINE: You want to go to UW because your friend goes there.
REALITY: Not affordable. Limited Financial Aid. Few if any Scholarships for ECE.</p>
<p>Go on Fast Web and look up the scholarships and see what the requirements are for each scholarship and then note the amounts. It’s not very much money and you have thousands of kids applying for $1000 grants.</p>
<p>You are getting good advice here. I often hear kids lament they cannot get some major or area of study at local schools, and almost always they can get something very similar. There might be a slight difference in wording or aspect of the program, and in a perfect world you get exactly what you want. but when there is money involved, especially in those amounts, YOU should make accommodation. If you are hot for a field of study that is very likely to lead to high pay employment with jobs out there waiting for you, it’s a consideration, but in your field even finding a job is going to be a tough go. Getting a degree from a local, or state school would likely be in your favor for licensing/accreditation purposes as well. It really makes no sense for you to go to UW as an OOSer.</p>
<p>For each academic year, the FAFSA submission window stays open 18 months (for example from January 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014).</p>
<p>For each academic year, the FAFSA submission window stays open 18 months (for example from January 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014) in case a student’s personal financial or academic circumstances change. I recommend that you update your FAFSA and answer the so-called ‘dislocated worker’ question, which addresses whether a member of your family had their job eliminated. That allows US ED to recalculate (reduce) your estimated family contribution, which is the basis of any financial aid award provided by a college. Then go talk to your college’s financial aid director about the change in your family’s financial circumstances. A college won’t release additional aid without an updated FAFSA.</p>
<p>To be classified as a dislocated worker, one must meet one of the following conditions:
Their job has been eliminated.
They have received a lay-off notice from their employer indicating their job will be eliminated.
They are receiving unemployment benefits due to a job elimination and are unlikely to return to the a previous occupation
They are self-employed but are unemployed due to economic conditions or natural disaster
They are a displaced homemaker. A displaced homemaker is generally a person who previously provided unpaid services to the family, is no longer supported by the husband or wife, in unemployed or underemployed, and is having trouble finding or upgrading employment.</p>
<p>A student may need to submit proof to their college that a parent is a dislocated worker.</p>
<p>If a person quits work, generally they are not considered a dislocated worker even if they are receiving unemployment benefits.</p>