My daughter and I filed the FAFSA yesterday morning and want to add more schools now. But it’s not letting us add anything–the message we have is “Current Application Status: Processing
Your application was submitted and is being processed. This usually takes up to three business days from the date submitted, so check back later.”
Does this mean we need to wait 3 business days until processing is done to add more schools?
It takes 1-3 days. You will receive an email when the application is officially processed. After that you can make changes.
Thanks. I kept trying following the instructions on the help page which was really not that helpful–after a while I realized that it said corrections could be made “depending on the status of the application”, and that might mean that “processing”=unable to make corrections.
It took D’s FAFSA less than the 3 days to process - she got an email when it had and forwarded it to me. We took off the schools already submitted and added the rest and re-submitted. We’ll have to repeat that process once more after we file taxes, when we do the IRS link.
Yes. And Saturday & Sunday don’t count as business days.
The processing didn’t take as long as I feared, just 1 business day. I put in the 1st batch of schools Saturday morning and then by Monday 4 PM got an email that the application was processed.
So if you got the “it’s processed” email that means the schools you entered on the first round already got it and you can change them out for schools 11-20? I don’t like this! I worry I’m erasing something before it got to the schools!
The email said the application had been processed and sent to schools but I had the same fear @redpoodles. We had 12 schools but I put in only 8 on the 1st round, so I deleted just 2 schools and put in the 4 that I hadn’t put in. So if that means that some schools get notified twice, well, I hope that’s not too big a deal.