Senior Info: Filling out the FAFSA

Seniors, in order to fill out your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) for the 2011-2012 school year (when you will be college freshmen!) your parents need to have their 2010 tax return information. Remind your parents to file their taxes as soon as possible, so you can fill out your FAFSA and get your financial aid for your first year of college!

You can fill out your FAFSA online (you must use Internet Explorer to do this, not Moxilla Firefox or Google Chrome), or you can fill out a PDF version either directly on your computer (but be careful -- you cannot save the information on your computer; to save your information you must print the document or start all over the next time you open the link) or on paper, after printing out the blank form. You can also call 1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243) to request that a paper form be mailed to you.

If you fill out your FAFSA online, the website helps you complete each step of the application. It also saves all of your information for you, so you can come back to the form and fill out the rest of it later if you need to. You can also check the status of your FAFSA once you have submitted the application.

If you do not have Internet access at home, you can use a computer here, on the MVC campus. Please call us to make an appointment to use a computer here in the UB office, or you can use your MVC student ID to use a computer in the library.

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