<p>I have a senior physics major looking at Grad school. Should we fill out a Fafsa for him? Most of the schools he is looking at provide tuition remission and assistantships. Thanks!</p>
<p>You college senior who will be starting grad school will be considered independent when filling out the FAFSA. He will be filling out the FAFSA for himself. Your income and assets will not be needed on the FAFSA</p>
<p>Sybbie is right. He’ll be a household of one.</p>
<p>He may not need to fill out FAFSA if he’ll be getting tuition remission and a living stipend. He’d only need to fill out FAFSA if he needed a loan…which it doesn’t sound like he’ll need.</p>
<p>Often institutional aid for grad school is merit-based…tuition remission and stipends. Therefore really not related to FAFSA.</p>
<p>There is a reason to fill out FAFSA: the Federal Graduate Work-Study Program. Many graduate programs offering assistantships will require a FAFSA, because GWSP funds can be used to offset a significant part of the departmental cost of any assistantship for an eligible (financially-needy) student.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your input. You are a wonderful source of valuable information.</p>
<p>Polarscribe is correct, all grad student applicants should file FAFSA early as some schools may use work study monies toward funding.</p>
<p>Once he has gotten his first package he can determine if he needs to continue to file in the future.</p>