On another thread someone wrote the following:
“Now, for the benefit of all, keep in mind that if a FAFSA application has been submitted, every school knows which colleges and universities a student has applied to. Every school applied to is listed on the FAFSA. All it takes is telephone call or email from the Admissions Office to the Financial Aid Office to find out. Okay, maybe the student applies to his or her home state, which makes sense, but once you leave the state, it is easy for Admissions to learn where that student has applied. Thus, if Jorge and Laverne all have extremely high SAT/ACT scores with off the chart GPAs and applied to Duke, Harvard, U Chicago, U Penn, Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Vanderbilt (I think you get my point), how interested are they really in Tulane? And just to throw in a little speculation or conspiratorial thought, maybe Tulane will think these students are really using Tulane as a safe school and are not as interested as student who may have a lesser SAT/ACT score and GPA? Otherwise, why wouldn’t these students have applied ED in the first place?”
Is this true???
Colleges can no longer see where else you have submitted financial aid forms.
Change took place a couple of years ago.
Not at a need blind, where admissions and FA docs are separate. There is no “call” to FA.
The Why Us is tricky enough that you don’t want to blow that. In fact, all the supp questions are a chance for them to see if you know the sorts they want, when you choose how to answer.
I don’t know who wrote that quote but you want to filter for whether they might truly know.
It used to be that colleges receiving FAFSA would see the whole list of colleges in that FAFSA submission, and some colleges that considered “level of applicant’s interest” would use the order of that list as an indication of how interested the student is in each college. So some students who knew about that would do multiple FAFSA submissions so that colleges considering “level of applicant’s interest” would be at the top of the list for each submission or similar games of that nature.
But that no longer applies because FAFSA no longer shows the whole list of colleges to colleges that receive it.
@ucbalumnus and @thumper1 is this also true for the CSS application? Can colleges not see who you send it to?