FAFSA dashboard showing "correction request" I never submitted - what's happening?

same thing happened to me last month!! the system is glitchy AF. turned out my school's financial aid office submitted a correction on my behalf without telling me first. maybe call your school?

Don't panic yet. There are a few common reasons this might happen: 1. Your school may have submitted a correction (most likely) 2. A parent/contributor with access to your FAFSA made a change 3. The Dept of Education sometimes makes automatic corrections if they detect mismatched information between your FAFSA and tax records 4. Sometimes system glitches display this message in error The good news is that corrections typically process within 3-5 days, so this shouldn't impact your deadline as long as you already submitted the initial application.

The exact same message appeared on my daughter's account two weeks ago and we went through HELL trying to figure out what happened. Turns out her university financial aid office made a correction to her dependency status because they had conflicting information. They never notified us beforehand! We only found out after THREE DAYS of calling FSA with no answers. The schools have way more power to change your FAFSA than they tell you about.

Financial aid administrator here. This is actually quite common. Schools are required to resolve any conflicting information in your financial aid application, and sometimes that means submitting corrections to your FAFSA. Federal regulations allow us to make these changes without prior notification, though most schools try to communicate this. I recommend: 1. Contact your school's financial aid office first thing tomorrow 2. Ask specifically what corrections were made and why 3. If they didn't make the changes, contact FSA directly at 1-800-433-3243 Don't worry about your deadline - once your initial FAFSA was submitted, you met the requirement. Corrections don't count as late submissions.

When this happened to me, I tried calling FSA and couldn't get through for days. Then I found this service called Claimyr (claimyr.com) that got me connected to an actual FSA agent in under 20 minutes. They have this system that waits on hold for you and calls you back when an agent is available. Saved me hours of frustration. They have a video that shows how it works: https://youtu.be/TbC8dZQWYNQ. Way better than trying to call directly!

i would just wait a few days and see what happens. the fafsa system is always doing weird stuff. last year my brother's application randomly showed as "deleted" for like 48 hours then went back to normal with no explanation. the whole system is held together with duct tape and prayers lol

UPDATE: Mystery solved! I called my school's financial aid office this morning. Turns out they made a correction to the housing section of my FAFSA. I had marked "on campus" but I'm actually going to be living off-campus this fall. They said this might slightly affect my cost of attendance calculation but shouldn't impact my SAI or eligibility. Thanks everyone for your help!