We filed the FAFSA Oct 9, it was processed Oct 10. Everything is complete on the FAFSA website and we just checked the school code for UMN and it is correct.
However, when my son logs in to his UMN account, it says they have not received his FAFSA yet. How long did it take for you to see the acknowledgement in the UMN portal?
We did ours on Oct 1st and it doesn’t show up on UMN portal yet. Only one school of the 5 he applied to is showing it so far. My guess is they just haven’t started doing anything with FA yet.
@cshell2 That makes me feel a LOT better! I’ve seen people here and in other forums talking about getting scholarships already and here we sit…I guess I figured since he was admitted so early and we did the FAFSA so early that he’d have some stuff back by now.
Another lesson in patience.
But seriously…THANK YOU! That makes me feel a lot better. I was so worried I messed something up when we filled it out.
The scholarships are probably all merit. DS has received some from other schools that don’t show his FAFSA on the portal yet.
Ours says the same thing, and we completed the FAFSA on Oct. 1, too. I guess they just haven’t gotten around to that yet. Glad to know it’s not just us though!
Just noticed DS’s says his FAFSA was recieved on Oct 1st now.
Same here!
There was something wonky going on with the tracker and portal yesterday. My son got an email that he was missing things and he got really worried because he’s already enrolled. He emailed the school and they said there was nothing to worry about and it was a glitch. I saw your replies here and had him check his account. Sure enough, they updated his FAFSA to say it was received on Oct 9.
My sons portal doesn’t mention anything about FAFSA even though we completed it on Oct 2nd. I wonder if there’s a problem with it.
Are you looking at the application tracker or the MyU portal?
@cshell2 Oh thanks. I found it now.
We haven’t heard anything about scholarships so should we assume he won’t be getting one or is there a chance still? We are out of state so a scholarship would be helpful.
@ILMomof2 - We didn’t hear anything on them either. I was reading through last year’s posts and people were getting various scholarship letters all the way up until February or March.
Ok. I guess we will continue to wait patiently. lol.