Every year you should complete your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as soon as you can after January 1. The first eligibility letters are usually mailed to students in July. These are the students who have filed a FAFSA by March 1 AND have a completed file by April 15th (completed file = any/all required documents have been submitted to our office). Those files completed after April 15th will receive a response much later in the year and may not be ready for fall quarter.

Eligibility letters are sent after students have followed Steps 1 – 3 below, AND depending on the date their file was completed AND the number of applications received.

1. Results from your Free Application for Federal Student Aid:
   Our Federal School Code needs to be listed on your form: 003805.
    
2. Admissions Application in the Admissions Office:
   Submit to the office of Admissions if you have not attended in the last 12 months.
    
3. Other documents received:
   If the federal processor selects you for verification, or if we have questions, you will be asked for additional information. This might include signed copies of your Federal Income Tax Returns and a Verification Worksheet.

Your grades are important!
Your grades will be checked to be sure you have been completing your classes and your GPA is at least a 2.0 (“C” average).

*Students who complete their files by April 15th (submit all required documents)have access to the most limited funding and know their aid eligibility by the Fall Quarter early registration tuition due date.

All documentation must be submitted by the last day of the award year. The award year completion is defined as the student's last date of attendance during that quarter/year academic period.

MAINTAINING PERSPECTIVE

While you're navigating the labyrinth of financial aid and scholarship forms, you might find yourself getting frustrated and annoyed. You'll find that it helps a lot to approach the process as if it were a job. Look at it this way; In the past academic year, a student who received funding spent an average of about 6 hours gathering information, making copies, filling out forms, calculating numbers, writing essays, making more copies, and standing in line for stamps at the post office. The average award such a student received was about $1,500, which translates into doing a job for $250.00 an hour.

Do you feel better about all this now?

The following is a link to the IRS Online Web Site

IRS Online

Complete your FAFSA the easy way. Apply online at: