1 hour 48 minutes:sob:
For what?
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Ok, good observation. Clearly I’m not the one applying to Rice lol.
In looking at DD’s calendar, I guess you could say the dates for any given month are in light gray and the boxes are white. So I guess this means “Not Scheduled” then? I guess we will know soon enough if this means anything, either way.
Anyone else get an Identity Statement Form requested? Mine is dated 3/2, and yes, my FAFSA was selected. Meaningless ou pas?
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No, sadly. We were also selected for FAFSA verification and apparently having that identity form requested may be a positive indicator. Good luck!
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Is not getting one a red flag? This is so stressful…
Take it for what it’s worth, but neither my son (accepted RD last year) nor my daughter (accepted ED this year) was selected for verification. And neither of them had any dates updated in their FA checklist after initial upload. I would try not to read too much into any of this stuff-easier said than done, I know.
I know this is stressful and the waiting is torture…one more hour!
Sending good vibes and wishing everyone good luck!!!
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Am I still the only one on here who still has a withdraw button?
i dont think so, i was selected for fafsa verification and have had the identity form on all my colleges so far, regardless of accept or reject
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where is the withdraw button?
yeah it doesn’t mean anything. it’s just fafsa sending randomly-selected verifications to people to ensure there’s no fraud. it’s all random
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It would be under the my account tab
Was your FAFSA selected as well?
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Please say if you are admitted when decisions are released.
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Nope
Then no need for alarm
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If you were not selected for FAFSA verification, then it’s not applicable.
DD & DH handled all our FA stuff, but we were - for whatever reason - selected for FAFSA verification. DH found the process extremely frustrating, as I think he had to scan an unwieldy number of documents and upload them to IDOC. In fact, he signed up for an identity theft insurance program after doing so, simply because he was concerned by the large volume of information he had to send off into LaLa Land. It was a real process. NO idea why we were selected other than our (typical) bad luck.
It seems as if - perhaps - having a request from colleges for that Identity Verification form may be an indicator for those who went through the FAFSA verification process. DD has received no such request from any school. She really hasn’t had much FA activity on her Rice page at all.
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Thanks for the clarification!
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Thank you for sharing this info. Even for schools that did not accept you, you’ve had that form? DD doesn’t have it in any portal, nor did DD & DH complete/upload it. I asked DH about this the other day, just to be sure. I believe it requires a notarized signature of the student.
it’s a random federal procedure to identify fraud…financial offices work SEPARATELYfrom admissions. People who usually believe these random financial aid changes are often just worried about the whole application process; believing these random changes gives us some sense of ease during a stressful process; it is a coping mechanism, but not fully logical. It’s humans’ natural tendency to create meaning out of random things, and in our biology to fear the unknown. But our attempts to create order out of things which are meaningless/coincidental isn’t fully logical.
" The FAFSA verification process confirms that the information you submitted on your FAFSA is accurate, but not all students are selected for verification. For the 2021-2022 year, just 18% of FAFSA applications were chosen for verification.
Applications can be chosen by the Federal Student Aid central processing system (CPS), or by your school. If you’re selected for FAFSA verification, don’t be alarmed. Some applicants are selected at random and some colleges elect to verify all FAFSA applications, so getting flagged for verification doesn’t mean you did anything wrong.
That said, some students are more likely than others to be chosen. The U.S. Department of Education doesn’t make its criteria for selecting students public. However, experts say that applicants eligible for Pell Grants—a federal grant for low-income students—are more likely to get picked for verification than other applicants."
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