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You’ll receive your Student Aid Report (SAR) three days to three weeks after you submit the Fafsa. The SAR is a summary of the information you provided on the Fafsa. Look it over to make sure ...

The SAR summarizes the information on your FAFSA and explains your eligibility for financial aid. For the 2024-25 award year and onward, the SAR will be replaced with the FAFSA Submission Summary.

The FAFSA Submission Summary replaces the Student Aid Report (SAR) which includes a summary of your submitted FAFSA application and ballpark estimates for your federal aid eligibility. The FAFSA ...

You can list up to 20 schools on the FAFSA. If you would like to add more schools beyond the initial 20, there is a way of doing so after you’ve received your Student Aid Report (SAR).

It also included the student's Expected Family Contribution (EFC). As part of the FAFSA Simplification Act, the SAR is replacing the FAFSA Submission Summary, starting with the 2024-2025 school year.

The number of family members in college will still be asked on the FAFSA, but it will be excluded from the federal and state financial aid calculation. The Student Aid Report (SAR) will now be ...

Once an applicant submits all this data on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a student aid report (SAR) with the official SAI/EFC value will be sent to the student and their ...

But after the fiasco surrounding last year's rollout of a supposedly revamped FAFSA, students and parents alike may (understandably) be worried about how this year will go. In early October ...

Students at a workshop for help with their FAFSA form in Washington on March 16. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) It’s a depressingly familiar Washington story: A well-meaning update of a ...

It's an opportunity made possible through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. "FAFSA, man, they have a lot of issues," Garcia told CBS News. "It always gave me, like ...

This year's college financial aid process was supposed to be easier, after the U.S. Department of Education revamped the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, last year. Vanessa ...