Don’t Forget the FAFSA

This is the last day of February and time is ticking away for everyone to get their FAFSA filed.  This drives all financial aid in colleges.  For some of you, financial aid deadlines were already missed.  Some colleges have deadlines of mid-February and some are March 1st or 15th.  Don’t miss this deadline.  Call your colleges immediately if you haven’t filed yet and get the deadline.

There are some colleges that are so generous that they extend the deadlines but don’t play chicken with the FAFSA.  Colleges don’t always play nice once you’ve missed the financial aid deadlines.  The colleges on this website do list the financial aid deadlines but they could have changed for this year.  The only way to be sure is to review the literature each college sent you.  If you’ve missed the deadline, that college may be out of the picture for you.  Public universities play hardball more than private colleges.