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Update: I was able to add the community college to her FAFSA this morning! The process was pretty straightforward. I called the financial aid office first and they confirmed they're still processing aid packages for the fall semester. Thanks everyone for your helpful advice!
Amara Chukwu
That's awesome news! Glad it worked out smoothly for you. Your daughter is making a really smart financial decision - starting at community college can save thousands in the long run. Just remember to have her connect with an academic advisor early to map out a transfer plan so all her credits will count toward her bachelor's degree later. Good luck to her!
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UPDATE: Our FAFSA finally processed today - exactly 27 days after submission! I received an email notification around 3am and checked the account this morning. The SAI is now visible and I've already notified all her schools. Thank you everyone for your help and reassurance!
Excellent news! I'm glad it finally processed. Now make sure to follow up with each school's financial aid office in about a week to confirm they've received the processed FAFSA data. Sometimes there can be delays in the school receiving the information even after it shows as processed in your account.
Congratulations on finally getting your FAFSA processed! As someone who went through this exact same stress last year, I wanted to share a few tips for the next steps: 1) Screenshot or save a copy of your SAI summary for your records, 2) Check each college's financial aid portal to see if they show your FAFSA as received (it can take 3-5 business days), and 3) If any schools haven't updated by next week, call their financial aid offices directly with your FAFSA confirmation number. Also, don't be surprised if you get selected for verification - it seems more common this year. The good news is you're well within the timeline to receive aid packages before decision deadlines!
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my cousin got the IL MAP grant last year and it showed right on her award letter from ISU. the amount was like $5600 i think? it was applied directly to tuition along with her pell grant.
That's really helpful to know - thank you! We're hoping for something similar for my daughter. Did your cousin have to do anything special to accept the MAP grant or was it automatically accepted?
nope, she just had to accept her total financial aid package through the school portal. everything was handled by the school.
Nick Kravitz
As someone who just went through this process with my oldest last year, I can confirm that in Illinois the MAP Grant will definitely show up on your daughter's award letter from her college! No separate notification needed. One tip though - make sure to check the award letter carefully because sometimes state aid gets listed under a different section than federal aid, so it might not be immediately obvious. Also, if your daughter qualifies for MAP, the amount can vary quite a bit depending on her EFC/SAI and the college's cost of attendance. My son got about $4,800 at his state school. The whole process was much smoother than I expected once I understood how it worked!
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Amina Sy
Just checking back - were you able to get through the parent section? If you're still having trouble, there's a lesser-known workaround: you can submit the FAFSA without completing the parent section, then go back and add the parent information as a correction after submission. This sometimes bypasses the error.
Success! I finally got it to work at 4:30am using Microsoft Edge in incognito mode. For anyone else with this problem - try during off-hours with different browsers! Thanks everyone for all your help and suggestions.
So glad you got it working! For future reference (and anyone else reading this), the combination of off-peak hours + incognito mode seems to be the magic formula for these FAFSA errors. I work at a college financial aid office and we've been telling students about this workaround all month. The incognito mode helps because it bypasses any cached session data that might be causing conflicts with the IRS integration. Congrats on getting through the nightmare - now you can focus on the fun part of waiting for your financial aid offers! 😊
Logan Stewart
dont forget that even after you fix this you gotta make sure the colleges actually RECEIVE the updated info. my school said they never got my corrected fafsa even tho the site said it was processed. had to call financial aid office directly and have them manually pull it. whole system is broken imo
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Nina Chan
•Good point! I'll definitely call my school's financial aid office next week to confirm they received the updated information. Thanks for the tip!
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Freya Thomsen
Just wanted to add another tip for anyone still struggling with this - if you're getting error messages when trying to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, check if your parent filed their taxes as "Married Filing Separately" vs "Married Filing Jointly". The FAFSA sometimes gets confused about which parent's tax info to pull if the filing status doesn't match what you selected in the original application. We had to go back and correct the filing status first before the DRT would work properly. Also, make sure you're doing this during IRS business hours (they have maintenance windows that can block the tool from working).
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