I only did once for my dd for her freshman year. Then I decided not to do it. I don’t plan to do son’s either.
@MomofM It should be noted that only some universities don’t count home equity or retirement funds.
@Geikon2016 It doesn’t tell the universities what they can charge you, but determines what federal aid you may be entitled to. With the exception of entitlements like federal loans, you aren’t “entitled” to financial aid. It is up to a university to decide whether to award you any. If you are unhappy with the FA offered, you can go elsewhere.
Wondering what happened to @penzly
Vented and done, I’m guessing @thumper1 !
I’ve always found parts (including the login procedure) of the FAFSA a little user unfriendly.
As for remembering passwords etc. I’m surprised people are writing them on pieces of paper here and there. In today’s age with so many passwords to remember (bank, email, shopping sites, utilities, and of course CC), I would think people would be using a better system than writing on paper. There are plenty of programs out there to store this information on your PC and phones. I use one and I’m able to store any information I need (passwords, usernames, website, pins, security question answers, notes, account numbers etc.) for everything in one place. Of course, the file is encrypted and password protected. I keep the master file on my computer, and share the data onto both my phone and my husbands phone so we always have the information we need at our fingertips (and a backup should something crash).
I just did this last week. I am one of those people who uses the same couple of passwords for everything - I know you aren’t supposed to do that. I could not come up with the correct passwords to save my life. Once I finally got done with that it was fine. We wrote the information down and put it with our tax forms. I’m guessing by next year at this time we’ll forget that we did that. We don’t qualify for any financial aid, but my daughter’s school will take off $500 for doing the Fafsa and we like to have the option to take out a loan even though we probably won’t.
^ happened to me. I am letting D’s college sort that out, they have her and my actual tax returns from idoc.
Nothing happened, I vented, it was always the nuisance of login etc that bothered me. And the fact that I was relieved to be done with it. I too did the CSS early on for each child and agree it was worse. Then I was out of town for a few so lost touch…and most importantly I was totally engaged in the Syracuse run to the final four!