Oct. 31, 2022

Important Steps to Take After Your FAFSA is Submitted. How Your Financial Aid Will Be Calculated. Who Will Do the Calculation, and Why Some Schools Will Offer You More Financial Aid Than Others

Important Steps to Take After Your FAFSA is Submitted. How Your Financial Aid Will Be Calculated. Who Will Do the Calculation, and Why Some Schools Will Offer You More Financial Aid Than Others

#107 – Today, we present three steps to take after completing the FAFSA. These are easy-to-follow steps that will ensure that you receive your financial aid as soon as possible.

Additionally, we walk you through a detailed description of the steps taken to award you need-based and non-need-based financial aid.

As the episode progresses, you will gain an understanding of what your Student Aid Report will tell you and what it will not tell you.

You will also understand the meaning of Cost of Attendance and your Expected Family Contribution.

On this episode, Jankel and I go to great lengths to try to demystify what goes on behind the scenes as your financial aid is processed, and attempt to give you an optimistic outlook, reminding you of the many advantages that will be available to you when it comes to helping you pay for college.

Links mentioned on this episode:

VIDEO on show notes: After the FAFSA: What Happens Next?

Link to Federal Student Aid Information Center. To Find Out Whether Your FAFSA was Processed

How to make corrections to the FAFSA after it has been submitted 

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