<p>So with the 30 different EFC calculators I used, my family's EFC was usually around 45-50k. However, this was with the numbers that my mother gave me---and she was wrong. Our w-2's just came in and my father, who although has a pretty high salary, was unemployed/not working/job-switching/I don't know what was going on for some time, and he made about HALF what my mother said his salary was this year. For this reason, the my EFC has dropped to about 25-30k, depending on the school's definition of need (JHU says 30, FAFSA says 25.)</p>
<p>Subsequently, my parents now want me to apply for need-based financial aid. I called the financial aid office, who said to submit the FAFSA and CSS and notify the office of undergrad. admissions---if I send all the required forms in by the deadline (March 1st? Thankfully, it's not Feb 1st...) will I be okay? Should I write a letter? I called admissions, but their office is closed until Monday and I would just like to get this done.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>No it is not too late because the financial aid deadline is March 1st. Follow these instructions for applying for need-based financial aid:</p>
<p>[JHU</a> Student Financial Services | Prospective Students | Freshman & Transfers | How to Apply](<a href=“Student Financial Support | Johns Hopkins University”>Student Financial Support | Johns Hopkins University)</p>
<p>There is no reason to contact the Admissions Office. If you checked you would not be applying for financial aid on your application for admission, then all you need to do is fax (410-516-6025) a letter of update stating your are changing your response to that question on your application.</p>
<p>Ooo… that’s fantastic. Thanks!</p>
<p>P.S. Will the fact that I already sent the CSS and FAFSA forms in before I declared my need-based-aid-ness complicate things/get things lost?</p>
<p>No … admissions documents go to one office, financial aid documents go to another office. There are two completely different systems in place. </p>
<p>In fact, the only one a student actually is an official financial aid candidate is by submitting the proper documentation to the Financial Aid Office prior to the deadline. Answering the “financial aid” question on the Admissions application has little to nothing to do with applying for financial aid. All that answering that questions does is allows the Admissions Office to inform the Financial Aid Office of the students who are **interested ** in applying for aid, so that the Financial Aid Office can follow up with those students.</p>
<p>If a student checks no on their admissions application regarding financial aid interest, and then goes ahead and files the complete financial aid application – they are a financial aid applicant/</p>