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Financial Aid Verification
Verification is the process of confirming that information reported by you and your parents or spouse on the FAFSA is accurate. Each year approximately 30% of student applicants nationwide are randomly selected by the Federal Central Processing System for verification. You may also be selected by the College. After being selected for verification the Financial Aid Office will require you and your parents or spouse to submit documentation to validate the information used to file the FAFSA. Students who are selected for verification will not receive an award letter until the verification process is complete.Once the required documentation is received, the Financial Aid Office will compare the submitted documents to the information initially provided on your FAFSA. If there are any discrepancies with the information initially provided on the FAFSA, the Financial Aid Office will make the corrections and you will receive an updated Student Aid Report (SAR). Occasionally the documentation that was provided to the Financial Aid Office does not provide all of the necessary information to complete the verification process. In these situations you will be contacted by a Financial Aid Staff Member outlining the additional documentation that is needed. Two to three weeks after the verification process is complete, you will receive a financial aid award letter informing you of your financial aid.
After receiving your award letter, if you make a change to your FAFSA you may be subsequently selected for verification. As a result your financial aid will be placed on hold until the verification process has been completed. If the process requires our office to make corrections to your FAFSA and those changes necessitate a change in your financial aid award you will receive a revised award letter within two to three weeks that will replace your previous award offer.
For maximum aid consideration and to ensure that your financial aid eligibility is established and confirmed promptly, we strongly encourage you to complete the verification process within 15 DAYS of notification. Please contact our office if you experience any issues or foresee a delay in meeting this requirement. We are ready to assist you in successfully completing this process in a timely manner.
Dependent students will be asked to submit the following forms:
- Verification Worksheet
- Parent(s) tax transcript
- Student's tax transcript
Independent students will be asked to submit the following forms:
- Verification Worksheet
- Student's and Spouses (if applicable) tax transcript
