Applying for Financial Aid: Getting Started!
As you finish submitting the odds and ends to your various college applications, now it’s time to turn your attention towards the Financial Aid process! Here are four basic links that I shared at the recent Financial Aid Information Night:
- In-depth information about everything related to college savings, FAFSA, CSS, college loans!
- MANDATORY Federal verification that needs to be filled out in order to receive financial aid!
- FREE! And please notice .GOV at end! Do NOT get fooled into filling out a fake FAFSA form and paying! FAFSA is FREE FREE FREE!
- Also detailed information on the whole process
- Home of the CSS profile; other valuable financial info available at http://collegeboard.com
- New York State Higher Education Services; resources for paying for public universities in New York State (SUNYs) for people having resided in New York for at least 12 months
Remember: FAFSA opens up on January 1st, and there will be more detailed information provided when we get back from winter break. Before you can submit your FAFSA on January 1st, however, you need to obtain a Federal Financial Aid PIN. Click, follow the instructions, and in a few days you’ll be ready to go! Please note that both you AND your parent/guardians need to a PIN to proceed with FAFSA.
I would upload the slides from the Financial Aid Night, but WordPress isn’t letting me right now, so look for it as an attachment!
