The FAFSA

The Department of Education has started to release FAFSA information to colleges and universities. Our team is working hard to send financial aid notices to all eligible students. The Department has also announced that some FAFSAs have been affected by inadvertent errors in Department of Education calculations. As such, colleges and universities will continue to receive updated FAFSAs throughout the coming weeks and months.

The Department of Education has opened up the ability for students to make corrections to their FAFSAs. If you need to make a change to your FAFSA, including adding a school code (Queens’ school code is 002957), please log into your studentaid.gov account to make the appropriate changes.

Rest assured, as soon as Queens has your most updated FAFSA, we will be communicating with you as soon as possible regarding your financial aid eligibility.

Some students and families are facing challenges with the FAFSA website, and it can be unclear if your FAFSA has been received and processed by the Department of Education. A list of known FAFSA issues and reaching out directly to Federal Student Aid are a great way to get your questions answered.

As soon as the Department releases FAFSA data to Queens, we will be able to communicate with you directly on the status of your submission.

Due to inadvertent errors in the Department of Education’s calculations of a student’s Student Aid Inex (SAI), Federal Student Aid will be reprocessing around 20% of all submitted FAFSAs. This reprocessing will have different impacts for different students, and some students may see changes to their eligible financial aid. If your FAFSA is reprocessed, you will receive communication from the Department of Education. While you may receive updates from Queens if there are changes to your federal or state financial aid, you can be confident that any Queens need-based aid that you have already been offered will not be reduced as a result of the reprocessed FAFSA.