How does a student apply for Financial aid? How does the process work?
Every school has a “Net Price Calculator” that you enter your family’s financial information into to get an estimate of the FA you could get at that school. Just google it along with the school name you want to check or go to each school’s financial aid page.
Each college has a net price calculator. Financial aid is unique to each school. Go the each school’s website.
See your school’s financial aid webpages. Most schools will ask you to file FAFSA.
How to apply? Follow the instructions on each school’s website. Schools will have different deadlines, policies and requirements. Start there.
Welcome to CC…just a little hint. You might want to have your thread subject be specific to each question. Calling them “financial aid” made it look like you had a duplicate thread…and I almost didn’t read this one!
You apply for financial aid to ALL schools you are applying to. The FAFSA and Profile,for,the 2017-2018 academic year will be available in October for completion and submission. It will use 2015 tax return information.
Complete the financial aid forms ASAP after they become available in October…for any school where you are sending an application.
Do NOT wait until after you get accepted.
Look on each school,website…for what needs to be submitted and the DEADLINES. Do not mis the deadlines.
In addition, be aware that some forms of need based aid have limited funding per college campus, and are awarded on a first come first served basis. These include federal work study, Perkins loans, and SEOG if you school has it.
Do you need to apply for financial aid for each school you’re applying to? or do you apply for FA after you choose which school you’re going to?.. Or, do you apply for financial aid as a whole…?
Is there some type of website where i can find out an estimate of how much financial aid i can get?
The FAFSA is the application for federal (and sometimes state aid). It asks for parent income and assets, household size, students in college, among other things. Depending on parent income and other factors it might also ask for student income and assets. Student and one parent sign the FAFSA with their FSA ID when it gets submitted.
You can list about 10 school codes on the FAFSA when you submit. It is possible to add more after deleting some and then resubmitting FAFSA.
High schools sometimes have FA and FAFSA info nights and some colleges offer help in completing it.
You will need social security cards of you and your parents, tax returns and W2 forms and possibly other income forms for year 2015 (if you are completing 2017/18 FAFSA starting in October 2016), bank and investment balances as of the day you submit FAFSA (if asset reporting is required).
The CSS profile is required by some schools, usually private schools. I think you do that through Collegeboard and fill out one profile and then pay to submit to every school. Often if parents are divorced, the non custodial parent’s financial information (and their spouse’s if they remarried) is required as well. It depends on school. Profile schools all differ some on how they calculate your family and student contribution. Home equity is also usually considered.
Some schools also have their own FA forms. They should list what they require and when on their FA page of their website.
https://fsaid.ed.gov/npas/index.htm
You might want to apply for your and parent FSA ID this summer so you are ready to file FAFSA in the fall.
Are you an international student?
Most of the information you’ve posted, in your previous threads, seems to indicate that you don’t have a guidance counselor at your school.