Okay so I submitted my Fafsa will the will file option under my taxes. In February. Then I had to go back and correct it in march cause i FINALLY got my parents tax info back. I corrected it in the beginning of March past the priority deadline however I wasn’t to upset about that. Also when I corrected the Fafsa it lowered my EFC from 7000 to 3000. Okay can’t get much worse than that right? No. I then received an email from a college that asked for verification through my tax return and my parents. Well I’m like okay cool. I filed as a single and I got my return like in February already from me working the year before. Well guess what it was under not going to file in my Fafsa. So i had to go back and change that. Ive had 3 big changes to my Fafsa and I have no idea if the colleges are willing to even deal with me anymore. Have I screwed up super bad? Can I make it better? Stress level is currently over 1000!
From this I take it you filed your FAFSA as “will not file taxes” and yet you did? Not a problem. Fix it and do the DRT. Mistakes happen and the FA office will work with the numbers that are verified.
You are fine. Just follow any directions the school gives you for verification. Everything will be okay!
Deep breaths, try to calm down.
I don’t know if a parent helped you with this, but mistakes happen and can be corrected.
You seem to have done a lot of things right:
did FAFSA early with estimates, updated parent tax info, responded to a college’s concern and fixed it.
It is good to do FAFSA early, before deadlines, to get the best aid. Then when tax return is done update with the IRS retrieval tool. That kind of verifies things for the college so they know the information comes straight from the tax return. The mistake about you putting will not file was easy to fix, did you link your tax return to the FAFSA also?
It’s good that your EFC went down when it’s based on actual tax info. That means you should get a partial Pell grant and maybe some other aid.
My experience is that FAFSA corrections don’t matter to the school. Does this mean you might get less aid? Yes. But there is nothing to do about that, it depends on the school.