Guide to FAFSA
Helpful Resources for Completing the 2023-2024 FAFSA
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Remember, the sooner you complete the FAFSA, the more likely you are to receive grants and funding.
Every student should complete the FAFSA application. Universities require this document for registration or to receive scholarship funds.
What is the FAFSA?
How to fill out the FAFSA
Step #1 of FAFSA - Create your FSA ID
2022-2023 FAFSA Full walk through video
Deadlines
Federal Deadlines
Online applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. CT on June 30, 2023. Any correction or updates must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. CT on September 10, 2023.
College Deadlines
Each college or technical school might have it's own deadline. Check with the schools you're interested in attending. You may also want to ask your school about it's policy on the application deadline, whether it it the date the school receives your FAFSA or the date your FAFSA is processed.
What is TASFA?
Texas Application for State Financial Aid
Who can apply?
If you are a foreign student or non-citizen, you may be eligible to be classified as a Texas resident for tuition purposes. If so, you may also be eligible to receive state financial aid.
What is the CSS Profile?
What is CSS?
The CSS is an online application to determine eligibility for non-federal financial aid, which is administered by the College Board, creator of the SAT®. Not every college requires it, but nearly 400 colleges do, so be sure to first check the list of schools to determine whether your child needs to complete the application. It's also important to see if the school requires students of divorced parents to complete the additional Noncustodial PROFILE.
Unlike the FAFSA, there is a fee to apply. The first application is $25 and reports to additional schools are $16 each. Fee waivers are granted to high-need students, generally for household incomes of $45,000 or less per year.
Both the CSS application and the FAFSA can be filed as early as October 1 and should be completed as soon as possible to take advantage of aid that is distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. All schools have their own deadlines in place for the CSS, but many require students to file the profile two weeks before the college's priority admission application deadline.
Wharton High School
Email: rquinn@whartonisd.net
Website: https://www.whartonisd.net/Page/1511
Location: Wharton High School, Tiger Avenue, Wharton, TX, USA
Phone: 979-532-6804