How to find or add colleges to my daughter's FAFSA college list?

Don't worry! You can easily add colleges to your daughter's FAFSA after submission. Log into studentaid.gov with your parent FSA ID (or have your daughter log in with her FSA ID). Go to the FAFSA form and select "Make FAFSA Corrections." Then navigate to the "School Selection" section. There you'll see the list of colleges you've already added, and you can add more schools (up to 10 total at one time). After making changes, be sure to sign and submit the corrected form. The changes typically process within 3-5 days.

i went thru this EXACT same thing last yr with my son!!! sooo frustrating. we forgot to add his safety school & when i tried to login the stupid website kept crashing on me!!! called FSA for like 2 hours and nobody picked up. its ridiculous how they expect parents to figure all this stuff out!!

Adding to the above advice, here's a step-by-step: 1. Go to studentaid.gov and log in 2. Click on "Apply for Aid" 3. Find "Manage My FAFSA Form" and select it 4. Choose "Edit FAFSA Form" 5. Navigate to the "School Selection" page (you'll need to click through several pages) 6. There you'll see all previously selected schools 7. You can add the new college by searching by name, state, or Federal School Code 8. You can have up to 10 schools at once on your FAFSA If you already have 10 schools and need to add another, you'll need to remove one first. After the data is processed (3-5 business days), you can then make another correction to add different schools if needed.

just FYI - u can only have 10 schools at a time on FAFSA. if u need more than that u have to wait till the first ones process then go back in and change the list. my daughter applied to 12 schools so we had to do this. kind of a pain but at least you dont have to redo the whole thing

If you're having trouble with the website or getting through on the phone to add schools, I found a service called Claimyr that helped me actually reach a real person at Federal Student Aid. It got me through to a human in about 10 minutes when I was having issues adding colleges after submission. Their site is claimyr.com and they have a video showing how it works: https://youtu.be/TbC8dZQWYNQ I was skeptical at first but it saved me hours of frustration when I needed to make changes to my son's college list after experiencing website errors.

One important thing to mention - after you add schools to your daughter's FAFSA, it's a good idea to contact the financial aid office at the newly added school. Let them know you've recently added their school to the FAFSA and ask if there are any school-specific financial aid forms or deadlines you need to be aware of. Many schools have their own additional requirements beyond FAFSA (like the CSS Profile for some private colleges). You don't want to miss out on institutional aid because of missing a school-specific form!

My daughter changed her mind like 3 times about which schools she wanted after we submitted her FAFSA lol. Just make sure when you add the new school that you have the Federal School Code handy. Makes it much faster to find the school in the system. You can usually find the code on the college's financial aid website or just google "[college name] federal school code" and it should come up.

anyone else notice that sometimes the schools dont get the fafsa info even when u add them?? we added 2 schools for my son in january and when we called in march they said they never got his fafsa!! had to resubmit the whole correction again. so frustrating

As someone who just went through this process with my own child, I wanted to add that you should also check your email (including spam folder) for confirmation messages after making corrections. When we added schools to my daughter's FAFSA last month, we received email confirmations within 24 hours that the corrections were submitted successfully. These emails also included a summary of which schools would be receiving her FAFSA data, which gave me peace of mind. If you don't receive a confirmation email within a day or two, that might indicate there was an issue with the submission process.