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My twins are graduating in 2025 too. Their college counselor told us to attend a FAFSA workshop in September (school is hosting one) because the new version has so many changes. Maybe check if your daughter's school offers something similar? Also wondering about the 10 school limit - what happens if your kid is applying to more than 10 schools?
If your child is applying to more than 10 schools, you can add more colleges later by: 1. Logging back into FAFSA.gov after your initial submission 2. Choose "Make FAFSA Corrections" 3. Delete some of the original schools and add new ones 4. Submit the corrected form The schools you removed will still have received your information. Alternatively, you can also contact the financial aid office at additional schools and provide them with your FAFSA confirmation number to ensure they access your information.
Thank you all SO much! This has been incredibly helpful. I'm going to check if my daughter's school offers a FAFSA workshop like someone mentioned. I'll definitely set up our FSA IDs this summer so we're prepared when the FAFSA opens in December. I'm relieved to know we can list schools before she applies - that was really confusing me. Sounds like the best approach is to get the FAFSA done early in December. Now I need to research which schools require the CSS Profile too!
You're welcome! One more tip: make sure you and your spouse both have separate email addresses and phone numbers for your FSA IDs. Many problems in the new system happened when parents tried to use the same contact information. Also, write down your FSA ID information somewhere secure - you'll need it every year you have a child in college.
Has anyone noticed that sometimes the system glitches when you're doing multiple student apps from the same parent account? I swear when I did my second child's FAFSA, some of the parent data randomly disappeared from my first child's application. We ended up having to correct her info after submitting the second kid's form. Just a warning to double-check BOTH applications after you're done!
Quick update on this topic: The Department of Education announced they're working on a "family transfer" feature for the 2026-2027 FAFSA that would allow parent information to be copied between siblings' applications. Unfortunately, that doesn't help for this application cycle, but it's coming in the future. In the meantime, I recommend having both your tax return and your first child's completed FAFSA in front of you while completing the second application. Being methodical about transferring the exact same information will help prevent any verification issues later.
Not sure if this helps but my son's college financial aid office told us that some email servers are blocking the FAFSA emails because they think they're phishing attempts. They suggested we add studentaid.gov and noreply.fafsa.gov to our email's safe sender list BEFORE resending the invitations. Worked for us after that!
SUCCESS!!! We did get the invitations finally. What worked was a combination of things: my son removed us completely, we both added studentaid.gov to our safe sender lists, and then he re-added us with slightly different capitalization in our email addresses. Not sure which of those things fixed it, but we got the emails within minutes after that. Now working on completing our sections. Thanks everyone for the help!
One thing I noticed from your original post - you mentioned that the FAFSA is showing as 'incomplete'. Where exactly are you seeing this status? If it's on your daughter's account, that's actually helpful because it confirms the system knows a parent signature is missing. On your daughter's end, there should be a section that specifically says something like "Parent Signature Required" or "Action Required: Parent Signature". When she clicks that, she should have the option to send you an email invitation to sign. Check all email addresses associated with your FSA ID for this invitation. Alternatively, try this specific path when logged in with your parent FSA ID: 1. Go to studentaid.gov and log in with YOUR FSA ID 2. Select "Apply for Aid" from the top menu 3. Select "Complete the FAFSA Form" 4. Look for "Sign a FAFSA Form" 5. Enter your daughter's information If none of this works, it might be a technical glitch that needs to be resolved by calling Federal Student Aid directly.
update please! did u get it fixed? my brother is about to start his fafsa and i want to know what to tell him to avoid this problem
Good news! We figured it out last night. The issue was that my daughter needed to specifically click on "Parent Information" in her FAFSA review section, which then gave her the option to send me an email invitation to sign. The email went to my spam folder initially, but once I found it, I was able to click the link and sign with my FSA ID. The whole application is now showing as submitted! Tell your brother to make sure he completes that specific step to invite the parent to sign.
Paolo Ricci
Submit a correction immediately. The sooner you fix errors, the less likely they'll cause issues with your financial aid packaging. Yes, corrections can sometimes trigger verification, but it's far better to trigger verification for a correction than to have incorrect information that's discovered later.\n\nSimply log back into studentaid.gov, select \
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Zainab Ismail
Thank you! Just submitted the correction. The difference is about $3,200 (reported $24,700 initially but my AGI was actually $21,500). Hopefully this won't delay my aid offer too much.
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