<p>I am writing for a friend who is not on CC. Her son is a sophomore in the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech. She has filled out a FAFSA for him for his first two years. This year he has just received an ROTC Scholarship, which I believe covers most or all of his expenses (tuition, books, stipend). She wanted to know if she will need to file a FAFSA for the upcoming year for him. She also has another child who is graduating from high school this year, so will be doing a FAFSA for child #2 (this one is not doing ROTC.) And will any of this affect aid for child #2?
Thanks for any guidance!</p>
<p>If she’s already filling out a fafsa, I would do the second. You already have a PIN and it will take 2 minutes. Then if its needed it’s done and ready. Seems like a no brainer.</p>
<p>As far as affecting the other child, she will have to talk to the school S2 attends. It would first have to be a school which meets need and then she would have to declare what S1 is receiving and how the school views that. Too many factors to even begin to venture a guess.</p>
<p>Once she fills out the FAFSA for S1, it will ask if she would like to fill it out for any other children. This makes things easy because it transfers over a lot of the info she would have previously entered.</p>
<p>The aid that S1 is receiving has no influence on the aid that S2 will receive. Financial aid is in part determined by the number of children in college, not by the aid that any of them receive.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the info…I will pass that along to her.</p>