<p>I am very confused about this. I sent in my fafsa on time before the March 2nd deadline, I used estimated numbers since we didn't have our taxes filed yet.</p>
<p>We just now got them filed, should I go back and correct it? Or will that make it late since it is after March 2nd?</p>
<p>I've already gotten unofficial packages from UCSD and UCSB and don't want to mess it up.</p>
<p>Also, should I fax in the tax forms or will they ask for it if needed?</p>
<p>Amend the FAFSA to reflect what the actual numbers were.</p>
<p>I would not send tax forms unless they ask for them. (Usually tax forms are requested if you are selected for “verification”.) I do not think that the UC’s request tax forms be sent otherwise. To be sure about that, read the financial aid info on the UC website.</p>
<p>Perhaps someone else can clarify that aspect more definitively, but do get started on the FAFSA revision. Realize that changes from the estimate to the actual numbers will effect your aid.</p>
<p>OK, thanks. I am new to this and don’t want to mess it up. I was pretty sure as long as I sent in the original before the deadline it would be fine to make corrections, but wanted to make sure.</p>
<p>Don’t ask me. I just had a school (not a UC) tell our family that a correction “reset the clock” and because we did a FAFSA correction after the priority deadline, it would affect daughter’s aid eligibility. I would honestly ask the school <em>first</em>.</p>
<p>Are you serious? That’s terrible. Not everyone can get all their taxes done by these deadlines, hopefully the UC’s will be lenient on it.</p>
<p>I’m serious. It’s another thread in financial aid. I had never heard of such a thing until I was talking to the FA contact this week and she told me that daughter’s package was delayed because we had “missed the priority FAFSA filing deadline”. When I told her that we had filed in January, she checked again and said that because they had gotten a correction after March 1, they had to go from that. I’m still very upset about it.</p>
<p>How many schools did she apply to? Was it for every school or just that one?</p>
<p>The correction was for all her FAFSA schools, 10 of those. Only one school has directly told me there was a problem, but all of her aid packages have been awful. I’m terrified that I ruined her chance to attend college by doing a damned correction – and a little one, too.</p>
<p>I don’t think it should be corrected this late</p>