Filling out your FAFSA®, specially for the first time, can be a confusing procedure. Add to that the pressure level of picking a college to attend, and y'all may be and then overwhelmed that y'all fail to include a potential school. In some cases, you may even alter your heed altogether and choose to utilise to a college altogether.

If you need to add a college subsequently submitting the FAFSA®, merely log into your FAFSA® online and add a new school or school code. Simply be sure to make whatever FAFSA® corrections as presently as possible so that you don't hinder your chances of receiving the maximum amount of aid possible.

What Y'all'll Need To Add More Schools To FAFSA®

  • Your FSA ID
  • The schoolhouse you want to add
  • A FAFSA® that completed processing

Adding More than Schools With FAFSA.gov Online Form, Pace Past Step

To update your school codes, admission your FAFSA® online and follow the steps below.

1. Login with an FSA ID or with student information at FAFSA.gov.

2. Discover and select the option to "Make FAFSA Corrections." Then, enter your FSA ID or personal information.

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3. Depending on whether you lot logged in using your FSA ID or your personal information, you will be prompted to enter your FSA ID and create a relieve primal, or only create a save key.

four. Click "next" on the FAFSA® correction domicile screen.

5. Locate the "School Selection" page with the school codes and enter the school'due south name in the search bar to bring up its code in the database.

6. Y'all will need to know the state in which the college is located as well equally its full name or metropolis to bring up an authentic result.

seven. Click on the appropriate lawmaking and make sure the school is displayed in your list of schools before submitting the corrections. Later you've verified that the information is right, click the 'next' button.

8. Click on "Sign & Submit" in the meridian navigation, preview your changes, and then submit. After you lot submit, you volition see a notification that your application is processing.

If Your Form is "Still Processing"

If you lot log into your FAFSA.gov business relationship and you see that your grade is "nevertheless processing," as pictured below, you will have to look until your form finishes processing before yous can add together schools. (Acquire more about how long information technology takes FAFSA to process here.)

Later your FAFSA® finishes processing, you lot will go an email notification and then when you log in y'all volition see the option to add correction.

Sending Your FAFSA® to More Than 10 Schools

No more ten colleges can be listed on the FAFSA® at whatever given fourth dimension, so adding more than than 10 will overwrite a previous code.

If you lot feel you need to use to more than 10 schools, at that place is a way to become around the limit past choosing which school codes to delete when adding additional ones.

  1. When filling out the FAFSA®, listing any in-country public colleges first, equally this is the all-time way to exist considered for state grants.
  2. Follow up with whatsoever colleges that have earlier financial aid deadlines.
  3. Submit your FAFSA®.
  4. Wait for your Student Aid Report (SAR), as this indicates the colleges yous listed have received your data.
  5. After receiving the SAR, login to your FAFSA® and delete the original school list.
  6. Create a new schoolhouse list and and so re-submit your FAFSA®.
  7. If you lot're applying to more schools, wait to receive your SAR again, then repeat the procedure for a new batch of schools.

You can besides add colleges using the information release number (DRN) located on your SAR. Simply supply this number to the higher's financial assistance section, and the schoolhouse will pull up your FAFSA® information.

The FAFSA® process makes it easy to add schools to your application even subsequently submitting information technology. No affair how many schools you add, be sure to reach out to each financial aid department direct to see if you need to supply additional documentation before receiving your award letter.

Adding more schools with Frank

If y'all filed your FAFSA® with Frank, contact us over e-mail, phone, or chat and we volition walk yous through how to add more schools to your FAFSA®.