FAFSA Questions

Paying for College
1

<li><p>My kid is applying to law schools. Several law schools ask for parent financial information. I am not sure how many FAFSA forms need to be filled – should he fill one as an applicant and I another as a parent or is the student FAFSA form alone is sufficient? (I see that the student form does ask for some parent financial information.)</p></li>
<li><p>He is applying to more than 6 law schools. I had a quetsion about how to handle this but the following link makes it very clear, especially the post by entomom (where she reposts a Calmom post):</p></li>
</ol>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/250054-fafsa-s-limit-6-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/250054-fafsa-s-limit-6-colleges.html</a></p>

<p>As long as each of the transactions are available for correction, things should be easy.</p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

<p>amd2003</p>

2

<p>Hopefully someone with a student IN law school will verify this. I believe you do the FAFSA the same way for law schools that require the parent info as you did for undergrad school. It's actually the STUDENT'S FAFSA...and both the parent and student info is completed. Both the parent and student info is on ONE form...both sign with their PIN numbers (one parent and the student need a PIN). Perhaps someone with a student in law school can clarify this.</p>

3

<p>Thanks for the reply.</p>

<p>The following is my guess. I would appreciate feedback on this.</p>

<p>When I put School A and generate a SAR, that SAR somehow goes into the "bin" for School A for the school to come and download it when it chooses to. When I delete School A, put School B, and generate a new SAR, the new SAR goes into the bin for School B. School A's previous SAR remains untouched. It is only when I generate another SAR for School A, the old SAR in its bin gets updated.</p>

<p>Does this sound right?</p>

4

<p>Why would you do school A, B separately? You can do up to six schools at a time. Just do the six, submit them and call it a day. When you need to add more, you wait until you are sure the schools have uploaded your data (you can call them to find out), you go into the FAFSA site, delete schools, add new ones and resubmit.</p>

<p>Each transaction will appear when you go into the site to amend, and you will need to choose which FAFSA you are amending.</p>

5

<br>


<br>

<p>My understanding is that once you receive the SAR, you can amend, i.e., even if the schools have not uploaded the information, the info is available to them. Is this not true? </p>

<br>


<br>

<p>Great. This makes things easier.</p>

<br>


<br>

<p>I just used that as an example. However, for law schools, some require parent information and some don't, and these should be kept separate.</p>

6

<br>


<br>

<p>Well...that makes sense. Submit to the schools requiring parental info then amend and submit to the schools that do not. That would be easy to do!</p>