| AwardYear: 1997-1998 Edition: PostSecondary Part: 3 - - Filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid SectionNumber: SectionTitle: Section H "Releases and Signatures" PageNumbers: 80-81 Section H "Releases and Signatures" Purpose: This section permits a student to list up to six schools that he or she is interested in attending. The Department will send the student's information to all the schools listed in Section H. Students should not write in the name of a school if they don't want it to receive their application information. Students should list each school's Title IV code. Questions 92-103 ask a student to list up to six schools to which he or she wants the FAFSA data and results sent. They also ask a student to select a housing code that best describes the type of housing he or she expects to live in for each of the schools listed. For a student who wants information sent to more than six schools, there are several ways to make sure all the schools can receive his or her data. 1. The student can photocopy the SAR or request duplicates and send copies of the SAR to additional schools. (Note that a photocopy of the SAR does not serve as a final documentation of eligibility.) Schools that do not receive data electronically will receive the data only when the student gives them a copy of the SAR; they will not receive the data directly from the CPS. 2. The student may list six schools on the application, wait for the SAR, and then correct the SAR by replacing some or all of the original six schools with other schools. After the application is processed, the student may also send a letter to the FAFSA processor requesting changes in schools; in this case, all six schools from the original application will be replaced with the schools the student lists in the letter. Note: Other corrections made at the same time this is done will not be sent to the first set of schools that are replaced with new schools. Beginning in 1997-98, the student also has the option of calling the Federal Student Aid Information Center (on the toll line, at 319-337-5665) to request changes in the schools (institution codes) to which the SAR is sent, or to make a change in his or her address. The student must receive his or her SAR before requesting these changes, and must get his or her Personal Identification Number (PIN) from the SAR and provide it to the phone representative at the toll number. 3. If a school that is not listed on the SAR participates in EDE, that school may use the student's PIN number (printed on the SAR) to get the student's data electronically. That school would then replace one of the schools listed in the original application. The CPS will send data to only six schools at a time for one student. For example, if the student originally listed six schools on the application and then replaced all six with new schools by changing the SAR, only the second six schools would get data from this correction. Furthermore, if the student then corrected the new SAR and changed all six schools again, only the third set of schools would get the corrected data. The first and second sets of schools would not receive the corrected data. Keep in mind that for a college to receive a student's data, the student must list the college's name and Title IV institution code or address. The FAFSA will be processed faster if the student writes in the Title IV code and the name of the college. These codes are not in the FAFSA instructions; they are provided in the "Title IV Institution Code List." The Department sends this Title IV code list to high schools, colleges, and public libraries each fall around the same time the FAFSAs are distributed, and also makes it available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/t4_codes.html. Although parental information must be provided for a dependent student, a high school counselor or a FAA may sign the application in place of the parent(s) if: - the parent(s) is not currently in the United States and cannot be contacted by normal means, - the current address of the parent(s) is not known, or - the parent(s) has been determined physically or mentally incapable of providing a signature. The signature of a counselor or financial aid administrator serves as a mechanism to get the application through the processing system. The counselor or financial aid administrator must provide his or her title in parentheses next to his or her signature and briefly state the reason (only one reason is needed) why he or she is signing for the parent(s). Also, if both parents are unable to sign the application, the counselor or financial aid administrator need only sign once in place of both parents. The counselor or financial aid administrator assures a minimum level of credibility in the data submitted. However, the counselor or financial aid administrator does not assume any responsibility or liability in this process. If the financial aid office finds any inaccuracies in the information reported, the student would be directed to send the SAR through the normal correction process. |