What are the benefits of using FAFSA4caster?
Instead of waiting until your senior year to find out your eligibility for federal student aid, you can use FAFSA4caster to estimate your eligibility early, which will give you better insight when making college choices.
There are additional benefits to using FAFSA4caster:
- You will become familiar with the student aid lifecycle and begin to understand the roles of the financial aid players – students and families, colleges, Federal Student Aid, and banks and lenders.
- When you're done entering your data, you can see your estimated federal student aid eligibility information, which is based on the answers you provided in FAFSA4caster. Your estimated federal student aid eligibility will help you better understand the types and approximate amounts of federal student aid for which you may qualify.
- Once you submit your data, we review your information and notify you if there are any issues you need to resolve prior to officially applying for federal student aid. This will save you time.
- We will automatically submit a request for you to receive a Federal Student Aid PIN in time for you to use when you officially apply for aid.
Additionally, FAFSA4caster provides you with an opportunity to pre-populate a FAFSA on the Web application for the current processing year, to reduce the time spent completing the FAFSA if you choose to attend college now.
FAFSA4caster Tip:
FAFSA4caster is not just for high school juniors. Parents of younger students can use the tool
to receive early estimates, create scenarios based on future earnings, and then establish college
savings strategies. Non-traditional college students (adult learners) can also use FAFSA4caster.
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