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[Sypro]

Hey Steve, you look to be the local guru. Anyway, here's the deal. I
am an independent applying for grad school. I've paid my own way for
7 years since graduating from college. One of the schools requires
parental information (they require FAFSA and a NeedAccess.org
application). Can I get away with completing just personal
information on the FAFSA and completing the parental info on
NeedAccess?

If not, is it possible to do two different FAFSA's, one with parental
info (for Yale) and one without (for the other 6 schools)??

Thanks,
Marc

[Sypro]

Thanks, Steve. Do you get paid to answer everybody's questions on
here???

Anyway, I was hoping there was an easy way. I'm going to talk to Yale
admissions (School of Architecture) tomorrow to confirm that they need
this info on the FAFSA, and then continue as you suggest if they do.

I just looked at the NeedAccess app and you're right, what a pain. I
wonder if my undergrad financial aid office can supply me with those
total aid awarded amounts for the financial aid history. Otherwise I'm
going to have some serious paper digging to do...

Marc



On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:34:56 GMT, Steve Blank <steve@randallblank.com>
wrote:

[Steve Blank]

Marc,

As a federally recognized independent student your official Expected
Family Contribution will be computed only on your own information by the
federal processor, even if you include parental information at the
request of a particular school.

However, if you don't want the other schools to even see the parental
information there is a way. Assuming you have a PIN and will be doing
the FAFSA on line, do the FAFSA excluding parental information and list
just the schools that are not asking for parent info. It will be
processed within one or two business days. Then go back to the FAFSA web
site, click on "Make corrections to a processed FAFSA" and when your
current info comes up click on all the empty parent info lines so you
can now enter it. Then delete the original schools and enter only Yale
as the recipient.

Or do the reverse if you prefer - send parent info to Yale only, then
delete all the parent info and send the newer version to the other schools.

The same thing works on the paper FAFSA, but the multi-week turnaround
time means you'll probably miss some deadlines.

I'm going to guess that you are applying to either Law or Medical school
- it's usually only some of those schools that ask for parent info even
if you are independent.

And good luck with that NeedAccess application - it's long, tedious and
brutal to complete.



Steven B. Blank
College Financial Aid Consultants
29 Ives Hill Court
Cheshire, CT 06410
(203)250-7761


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