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Renewal FAFSAs

This section permits you to list up to six schools that you are interested in attending. The Department will send your information to all the schools listed. You should list each school's Federal School Code. List the school you are most likely to attend first. If you want information sent to more than six schools, there are several ways to make sure all the schools receive your data:

• You can give your Data Release Number (DRN), printed on the Student Aid Report (SAR) you receive after submitting your FAFSA, to a school. The school will use your DRN to get a copy of your application information electronically.
• You can list six schools on the application, wait for your SAR to arrive in the mail, and then correct the SAR by replacing some or all of the original six schools with other schools. After the application is processed, you may also send a letter to the Department's processor requesting changes in the list of schools; in this case, all six schools from the original application will be replaced with the schools you list in the letter. Corrections made at the same time as changes made to the original list (or later) will not be sent to the schools that have been replaced with new schools.
• You can call the Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800/433-3243 to request changes to the schools to which the SAR was sent. You must receive your SAR before requesting these changes.
• You can give a photocopy of your SAR to any school that participates in the federal student aid programs.
• You can use your PIN to make corrections to your FAFSA over the web at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov

The Department's processor will send data to only six schools at a time for one student. For example, if you originally listed six schools on the application and then replaced all six with new schools by changing your SAR, only the second set of six schools would get data from this correction. If you then made other corrections, only the second set of schools would get the corrected data.

Questions 88-99 (even) Federal School Code - The Department assigns a number called a Federal School Code (previously called a Title IV School Code) to each school qualified to disburse financial aid. For a school to receive your application data, you must list the school's Federal School Code or name and address. The FAFSA will be processed faster if you write in the Federal School Code and the name of the school. These codes are not in the FAFSA instructions; they are provided in the "Federal School Code List" that the Department sends to high schools, colleges, and public libraries each fall around the same time the FAFSAs are distributed. The Department also makes this list available on the web. You can find a link to the Federal School Code List at http://www.ed.gov/studentaid

The Federal School Code is always a six-character code that begins with "0" (zero), "G," "B," or "E." Foreign schools may qualify to disburse aid, but some may not have Federal School Codes.

If you cannot get the Federal School Code, write in the complete name, address, city, and state of each college you are interested in attending. Write clearly. It is very important to write the correct city and state or Federal School Code so that your college can be identified. If a college is a branch campus, include the complete name of the branch. Also, indicate if it is a specific part of a university, such as the law school.

By answering the questions in Step Six and signing the FAFSA, you give permission to the U.S. Department of Education to provide your application information to the college(s) listed. You also agree that any aid you are awarded will be used for educational purposes only, as stated on the application. Colleges will use your FAFSA information to help estimate the amount of your financial aid package. You should not write in the name of a college if you do not want it to receive your information. If you leave these questions blank, the Department will not send your application information to any colleges.

Questions 88-99 (odd) Housing Plans - For each school listed, enter the expected housing code for your housing plans at that school: enter "1" for on campus, "2" for off campus, and "3" for with parents. Continue in the same way for all schools listed if you are applying to more than one college. Do not write more than one college and housing code on each line.

Courtesy of: "Completing the 2000-2001 FAFSA," from the U.S. Department of Education