<p>Is it really that important to put the right date, assuming that neither of your parents are alumni to any of the colleges you're applying to? They ask for year of graduation, but neither of my parents remember or are otherwise unwilling to tell me (but they both say they didn't graduate in four years). They both graduated from college in a foreign country, so it'd be extremely hard to verify anyway, but I'm thinking of just putting down a random year when they were 21-24 years old.</p>
<p>I'm still freaked out, though; are there any side consequences from semi-making up the year? And does the FAFSA (which I haven't started) ask for the same thing, in which case I'd end up having to make more stuff up? Ugh. I don't want to have to do this, but I don't know what else to do.</p>