<p>I am seeing many scholarships that want applicants to send their SAR or their parents' tax return. There is no way I'm sending anyone my tax return. Is the SAR report they want the printout of "THIS IS A COPY OF YOUR 2010-2011 SAR PRINT SUMMARY" which is basically your entire FASFA and the tax return? </p>
<p>Seriously, do these committees really need this? If all they're concerned with is the financial then they only need to know the EFC. Talk about identity theft!!! I don't need a scholarship that badly.</p>
<p>Oh… first I misread your post. You’re talking about outside scholarships… some will expect you to have filed a FAFSA and to make that information available to them. If you don’t wish to, it may make you ineligible for that scholarship. It sounds like they may accept just the SAR with your EFC from what you’ve written. If you aren’t comfortable with sending a complete FAFSA, then try just sending the short SAR with your EFC. That may be sufficient. I believe you can go onto FAFSA and select “View and Print your Student Aid Report.” It’ll take you to a very short page with just your EFC.</p>
<p>I don’t know what it is the scholarship committees want from you, nunya, but when I click “view and print your student aid report” that’s what I see. They may well want more information than that. You should probably ask someone, either from the organization granting the scholarship or your high school guidance counselor… you’d have to figure out who the appropriate person is.</p>
<p>I don’t know that you have to send tax returns, but if that is a requirement, and you choose not to, then of course your scholarship application would probably not be considered. That is naturally your choice.</p>
<p>But maybe they’ll just accept the short report without all the tax info. In my experience scholarships have either not required a FAFSA at all or they have required it. In those cases where they did, they had access to the FAFSA electronically. I haven’t encountered any scholarships that required a student to separately mail them their tax info, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen! Different organizations have very different ways of going about these things.</p>
<p>I’ve called several and left messages but have yet to have any return my calls. So, what is everyone else sending or are you not even applying to those? </p>