Verification Rap
All of you who apply for aid will go through a process called verification. In this process, we confirm the information you provided to us against all of the other information we have from you (your tax returns, your W-2 forms, your 1099 forms, etc., etc.). This process is timely, but it ensures that we are operating with the most accurate information available to us when we make your financial aid award.
Well, those of us in the financial aid world do so much verifying that one FAO (financial aid officer) got creative and wrote his own verification rap.
I have included the text of it below and posted the wav file here (credit for the verification rap goes to Erik Mells of George Mason University -- I only wish I was as creative as he is):
You applied for aid
By completin the FAFSA
Now ya gonna find out
There's more we ask-fa
By CPS selected
Or by QA school-es
Were gonna try to find out
If ya tryin to fool us.
Checkout ya taxes
And ya AGI
In a process
We call verify.
Gonna ask for tax forms
And other stuff
You can never never never
Give us enough
But if ya don't give it up
Then we gonna come afta
You, cause Dept of Ed says
We hafta
Gotta make sure
You don’t got the nerve
To try to get money
That you don't deserve
And we gonna check out
You ain't getting no money
By givin' us data or numbers
That are funny
We gonna look real close
At ya household size
And make real sure
You aint telling no lies
And we're gonna scope out
That number in college
To verify
There are people gettin knowledge
We'll checkout
Untaxed income too
So, hey you, get ready
Give up the w-2
Now if you make you
An honest mistake
Then just a little money
From you we'll take
But if you seekin funds
To live a life a glamma
Then we’ll send you right down
To the federal slamma
So don’t you lie
'Cause we verify
Now don't you lie
'Cause we verify.
Oh yeah...