<p>Our family was selected for verification and my husband and I filled out the form. The student is also supposed to sign the form. We mailed the form to the college, 2000 miles away, and expected that the office would contact our daughter and ask her to sign the form. It occurred to me last week to check with my daughter to see if she had gotten anything from the school about financial aid. Yes, the form! Which she didn't sign and which she's now looking for in her very messy room! So, parents, if you have any doubts about students' reliability on such matters, check with them.</p>
<p>Yep. One has to do the parental drip, drip, drip relentlessly on some things. It can help to preface the paperwork with dramatic language, as in “I am utterly terrified that I will be living the rest of my life in a cardboard box under the freeway overpass if this fin aid paperwork isn’t filed on time. I will be in your face and on your case on a daily basis until this is filed. So, do you want this done sweetly and now or slowly and with much screaming? Pick one.”</p>
<p>We were selected last year and the paperwork came the day before H was going up to get her for summer break. I had send him up with a copy of our tax returns. The FA office was great, they told her to come on up and she signed the forms in front of them. THey would have taken our forms by fax but H was going up anyway.</p>
<p>I am sure we were selected because I amended my FAFSA. This year, I waited till we got our tax returns back from the accountant but I filed the FAFSA so late that I doubt we’ll get anything. D’s award for this year was cut mid-year because of our state budget.</p>