Please don’t judge but for certain reasons I didn’t apply for financial by submitting the FAFSA in March when it was due. Is there any chance I can be saved? Can I ask my schools for aid or will I have to fork over ~$70000? Can I still apply for scholarships?
Thanks in advance. 
It is not too late to file the FAFSA for federal aid. The deadline the schools post is for priority fed financial aid or their own aid. They will probably still consider your application if they have any aid left, but if you qualify for federal aid you’ll get it (loan, Pell grant). There is some federal aid the school gives out until it is gone, like SEOG and work study, but some might still have some.
Most $70,000 a year schools require the Profile or their own form.
If the school is need aware,and you got acceoted without applying for aid…the school might not consider a request for aid after the fact unless there has been some financial crisis in your family.
Call the school and ask. No one here can give you a better answer than the school.
Do you have $70k per year to fork over?
In terms of scholarships from outside (i.e. CocaCola) those are closed and have been for a while. I really hope there are juniors and younger (and their parents) who read these threads and learn that the outside scholarships are like winning the lottery AND they open early and close mostly by Jan/Feb, a few in March.
We did our research two years ago, so we were aware of this, but it seems to many are not. My D has an extensive spreadsheet, divided by month the scholarship opens, and what we see is that the scholarships on the list that are opening now are all pretty scammy looking ones. All the well established legitimate ones closed a couple of months ago.
I’d advise you to fill it now anyway, because going forward most schools want to see that you’ve filled it out since first year to consider you for money in later years.
From your other posts it seems that U Chicago and Cornell are on your list. You can file FAFSA at any time and get a $5500 student loan as a freshman. Both those schools use the CSS Profile and you would need to contact them to see if they would consider giving you aid besides the student loan.
Some schools require it in the first year to be eligible for institutional aid in later years. Not most, not even many, but some. And you can always apply for federal and/or state aid, even as a college senior if you’ve never applied before.
I would say it can’t hurt to file it, however, it does seem that some schools will not consider giving you aid if you applied to the school without indicating that you were also applying for FA.
I actually started a thread a few days ago with this as a question. Nobody replied, but based on 2 calls to my D’s school, its clear she will not be eligible for school grants, scholarships, unless there is a drastic change (there wasn’t so I guess we pay in full for all 4 years). She would most likely be able to get subsidized federal loans.
And, I’m sure Cornell and U of Chicago will also require the Profile.
Actually, university of Chicago does not require the Profiel. But they do have a short school form.
Then this listing must not be correct:
https://profileonline.collegeboard.org/prf/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet.srv
But yes, it looks like UChicago is now using their own form:
https://financialaid.uchicago.edu/prospective-students/apply-for-aid/aid-application-guidelines