Getting financial aid requires any...

Getting financial aid requires any advanced planning. Make sure you're in succession schedule.

JANUARY

* To qualify for the most numerous aid possible, submit your FAFSA (see page 12) as early as you can after January 1

FEBRUARY

* If you sent in your FAFSA onward January 1 or shortly after that, you should receive a scholar Aid Report (SAR) indicating your eligibility for aid and your family's anticipateed contribution.

* Make any corrections to your SAR, including updates based onward your family's federal 1040 tax forms.

* Sign, date, and revert the SAR to the address designated.

MARCH

* Receive a corrected SAR if needed

* Make assured a copy of the corrected SAR reaches the financial aid office at each body you're applying to.

APRIL

* You may receive notices of admission and financial aid awards. You can begin to compare offers

MAY

* May 1 is the traditional Candidate's rejoinder Date. You must accept an show from one school and decline all others.

* full any loan forms (for Stafford, PLUS, etc)

JUNE JULY & AUGUST

* consider working during the summer thus you will have money for costs when you arrive on campus.

* Continue to turn the thoughts for scholarships. You will ne foundations beyond freshman year and recently made known scholarships appear every year. Make note which of your awards are renewable.

SEPTEMBER

* come by a FAFSA now. This is the primary form used for awarding learner aid. Filling it out can be involved, in like manner start preparing now so you can clean it and turn it in right after January 1

* continue an eye out for scholarships and prepare applications as you find individuals for which you may qualify. restrain track of all scholarship deadlines (see page 38)

OCTOBER

* As you narrow down the list of gymnasiums to which you're applying, you may find without that they require you to file additional financial aid forms. near private colleges require that you file the PROFILE form. PROFILE deadlines vary depending forward the school. For a form, call (800) 778-6888

* Compare overall corporation costs for the schools that interest you. Also, find on the outside the percentage of students who receive financial aid at those schools

NOVEMBER

* If you're applying for early decision, remember that principally schools have deadlines in mid-November.

* Check if your high institute offers any free workshops onward how to complete financial aid forms.

DECEMBER

* entire your FAFSA, but do not mail it until January 1 Make never-failing you've properly signed and dated the document. Any mistakes can delay the proces and terminate in lost aid.

* restrain copies of everything you mail! If anything gains lost or you need to verify information, you don't want to waste time scrambling to reassemble information.

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