Please Help! My FAFSA is late, do I have any hope?!

Paying for College
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<p>I missed the deadlines for
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 2/1 (25 days late)
Cornell: 2/15 (10 days late)
Carnegie Mellon: 2/15 (10 days late) </p>

<p>My parents filled out the last years FAFSA by mistake.
We are all new at applying for colleges and we had no one to help us. I'm a senior in high school. </p>

<p>Will I still be able to get financial aid from these schools or is my future ruined and full of debt? :'( </p>

<p>Is there anything I can do?</p>

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<p>You need to call the schools.</p>

<p>What about CSS Profile? Did you submit that?</p>

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<p>All three schools also require the Profile. Did you do that?</p>

<p>Get the forms done ASAP. Check each college website and make sure you submit EVERYTHING they are requesting. Thi sincludes not only the FAFSA, but Profile, tax return submissions, look for EVERYTHING. The schools will not process an incomplete financial aid application… Contact each school to see if and how your delay will affect your aid prospects. Only the colleges will be able to tell you.</p>

<p>I couldn’t seem to find the deadline you are posting for Carnegie Mellon. For Rennselaer, they state that late applications will be considered after the on time submissions are considered. </p>

<p>Regardless…contacting the colleges is what you need to do to get specific info. </p>

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<p>CSS profile is complete.
My parents completed everything by the deadline, only thing is they did LAST YEAR’s FAFSA!
So now we just realized that and submitted the new one today. :/</p>

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<p>Hopefully they did the 2014-2015 Profile. If so, that is good. </p>

<p>I would suggest you contact the school and explain the error on the FAFSA. You are not the first to do this.</p>

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<p>Call the financial aid offices of each school and discuss the matter with them. It is possible that your mistake cost you, and it is also possible that it did not. Depends upon the school, a matter of luck on these things. With some schools the deadlines are carefully watched. If you talk to fin aid, and explain, it could increase the chances that you are not penalized or penalized as much.</p>