It's February 8th... Do you know where your FAFSA is?
Well, its about three weeks (and a day) before our priority application deadline for financial aid for Freshmen, and I just wanted to offer one more reminder to all of you that your applications are due very soon.
If you are not sure if we have received your paperwork yet, please feel free to log into Autumn, our financial aid tracking system, to see if we have your information in hand. For those of you submitting documentation via IDOC, please keep in mind that the IDOC system will not send MIT information on students they have received until February 21st, so it is possible that your information has been received by the College Board, but that we just simply haven't gotten notice of it yet.
To access your record in Autumn, you will need your MIT ID. If you do not know your ID, check any paperwork we have sent you, or look online at MyMIT. We create an MIT ID for you at the time we receive your Admissions application. This number will become very important to you as it serves as an identifier (in lieu of your SSN) during your MIT experience. (If all else fails, and you cannot find your MIT ID, please feel free to contact our office at 617-253-4971 to check the status of your application).
Now to some of your more recent questions!
NoCreativity asked:
miiisssssttteerr barkowitz, i am still slightly confused about the IDOC and Autumn thing, although your post has helped a lot. My question is simple though. Will the Profile people send me the idoc letter automatically after submitting my css profile? and is there any way we can find out what our offer of aid is before we get our decisions? or do you have to wait for the decision as well? well thank you anyhow sir.
My reply:
Hopefully, those of you who have already submitted your Profile application have received your IDOC ID and letter via email. For anyone still working on the Profile, once you submit the form, the College Board will send an IDOC email (usually within a day or so) to you with your information. As for an early version of the financial aid, I am unable to help... We need to wait until a decision before we release any financial aid awards or status. And you are very welcome!
Now to the questions I don't need to answer because you already took care of it for me:
Eujin asked:
Do I need to attach some kind of document to certify the value of the apartment me and my mother live in? What about certifying the assets?
YJ Kim answered:
I think they will trust you to tell the truth. Later on, when you begin your visa process, as the Moneyman previously said, you will have to fill out the Certificate of Finances, also from the CollegeBoard. Then, you will have to get the bank official signature to certify your savings. (or your parents') Hope this bit helps!
MIT Hopeful said:
I am looking forward to next year. I have already filed the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE, and I designated MIT as one of my schools. Do I need to anything else regarding MIT Financial Aid at this time?
Patrick answered:
Send in 2004 Tax Returns and W-2's.
NoCreativity asked:
okay. question time! i applied to ten schools.. no make that 11. I need to send in fafsa for all of them. but there are only 6 slots. the schools tell me i have to remove some names and add theirs. How will everyone get my fafsa then?
Jane answered:
They will all get it (I think). If you submit it once with the first six schools, then edit it and put in the rest of the schools, it should send it to all of them. Hope that helps.
I need to clarify this answer
Jane has it pretty much right. You need to submit the FAFSA with six schools listed (I would put the ones with the earliest deadlines). Once you get a statement that the FAFSA has been processed (a form to you called a Student Aid Report or SAR), correct the SAR by replacing 5 of the schools and putting in the other ones. That will make sure that the other schools get the information. It is an imperfect solution, but the only one available to you. The issue here is that we (the schools) get the information based on each transaction, so by the time you submit your 2nd transaction (the correction) all 11 schools will have the information.
So, sincere thanks to my cadre of excellent financial aid detectives. I feel like you all are in good hands. And, by the way, congrats to all who played the lyrics game. It may be an experience worth repeating... What do you think?