<p>Do I still have a chance to receive financial aid if I filled out the FAFSA now or should I not bother?</p>
<p>The FASFA was due in March so yes you are too late for FA in the Fall 2014.</p>
<p>@staticroar what college do you attend…can you check your school’s financial aid website for the deadline to apply for financial aid? If it’s not on the website, just call the financial aid office on Monday to ask.</p>
<p>What do you need? The FAFSA just makes you eligible for Federal entitlements. I believe you can still take your Federal Direct Loan of 5,500. Unless you were low enough income to get Pell Grant that is all it does.</p>
<p>For financial aid from the college, you have to refer to their deadlines and paperwork required.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom </p>
<p>the student is not too late for federal aid. He may be too late for institutional aid. </p>
<p>Federal: Not too late fore Pell Grants & Direct Loans; too late for FSEOG & Perkins Loans.
State: Depends on the state.
School: Almost too late.</p>
<p>The 2014-2015 FAFSA can be filed until June 2015. The student would be eligible for a Direct Loan, and any part of the Pell that he/she is eligible to receive. SEOG and Perkins loans have limited funding per college campus and are never guaranteed awards. But the early bird usually catches the worm on these. </p>
<p>In terms of institutional aid…not likely there is funding left.</p>
<p>Plus the deadlines for institutional aid have long since passed.</p>
<p>Why didn’t you submit your financial aid application forms within the deadline for your college?</p>
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FAFSA does not have a March due date. Some schools may have a priority deadline and certain state grants have specific deadlines. but there is no March deadline for FAFSA.</p>
<p>You will still be able to get any entitlement Federal aid such as Pell (if you are low income) and Federal direct loans. You will probably be too late for most other aid. Federal aid with limited funding will probably already be gone. Most State aid deadlines will have passed. You are probably too late for institutional aid.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses guys. Don’t need loans at the moment (community college is cheap) and I probably won’t qualify for a grant since I’m the only dependent and my parents make $70,000+ annually. So I won’t fill out the app this year, but I’ll make sure to be on top of things when I transfer to university.</p>
<p>I almost didn’t fill out the FAFSA because I knew, just knew, that we wouldn’t qualify for any financial aid and I didn’t need the loans for this year, and I knew if it turned out I did need the loans I could file up to June of the end of the first year. But I did it anyway.</p>
<p>Imagine my surprise when the school gave my daughter a $2000 alum scholarship. Just because. Only requirement was to have completed the FAFSA by March 1.</p>
<p>IMO, always fill out the FAFSA.</p>
<p>And it allows you to borrow the Direct Loan amounts if you need them.</p>