FAFSA Simplification
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) Simplification
FAFSA简化是指完成FAFSA的过程和确定学生联邦财政援助资格的各种变化, beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year. This webpage provides a general overview of those changes, and details on completing the FAFSA for both dependent and independent students.
The 2024-2025 FAFSA was opened on December 31, 2023. After a brief “soft launch” period, the FAFSA is now fully available for most students and families to complete.
教育部要到3月上半月才会开始向学校发送FAFSA记录. If you already completed your FAFSA and used our school code of 002894, rest assured we will receive it later in the spring.
As additional updates and resources become available, the Financial Aid Office will continue to communicate them to applicants and families. Please review this fact sheet for a quick reference guide on new terminology and changes relative to the old FAFSA. We encourage all applicants to review our FA Handbook, 它包含了关于FAFSA简化以及澳门威尼斯人网上赌场学生经济援助过程的许多其他方面的信息.
General Information
As in prior years, 申请人在完成FAFSA的经历将根据他们是否被视为联邦经济援助目的的依赖或独立学生而有所不同. Dependent students will need to include parent information on the FAFSA. Independent students will need to include their own information, as well as their spouse’s, if applicable.
Please see the Department of Education’s website to determine your dependency status. If you feel you have unusual circumstances that would impact your dependency status, see below for more information.
Contributors are all persons whose information will be required on the FAFSA. 所有贡献者都必须同意在FAFSA中转让和使用他们的个人和联邦税务信息. Contributors may include: the applicant; the applicant’s spouse; the applicant’s biological or adoptive parent(s); and the applicant’s parent’s spouse, if remarried. If any contributor does not provide consent for the use of the information on the FAFSA, the FAFSA will be invalid and federal aid cannot be awarded.
All contributors must create a Federal Student Aid ID (FSA ID) in order to provide consent and e-sign the applicant’s FAFSA.
Dependent students can use this chart to determine which parent(s) will be a contributor and must provide consent on the FAFSA.
Replacing the federal Expected Family Contribution (EFC), an applicant will now have a Student Aid Index (SAI) calculated. Similar to the EFC, the SAI will be based on the applicant’s and other contributors’ income, assets, family size, and other demographic information.
FADDX流程有助于将捐款人的联邦税收和其他个人信息转移到FAFSA. All contributors who filed a U.S. 纳税申报单将需要提供同意，并使用FADDX流程导入其税务信息.
Unlike in prior years, FAFSA将根据申请人在联邦纳税申报表上申报的受抚养人数自动回答申请人的家庭规模. 受供养学生的家庭人数将以其父母或父母声称的受养人为准. For independent students, family size will be based on their and, if applicable, their spouse’s claimed dependents.
如果受供养学生的父母或独立学生(及/或其配偶)供养其他受供养人, but were not claimed on that contributor’s federal taxes, they can be manually added to the family size by the contributor.
Previously, 申请人家庭中在校大学生的数量影响联邦EFC的计算. The number of college students in the family will not impact the SAI calculation. 根据这一更新，在2023-24年和2024-2025年都有多名在校大学生的家庭，他们的联邦援助资格可能会从一年变化到下一年.
罗彻斯特大学将继续考虑入学本科生的数量，以确定机构基于需求的援助资格.
Unusual circumstances are defined as changes in an applicant’s dependency status. 被认为是受抚养人，但无法在FAFSA上提供父母信息的申请人可以表明他们有特殊情况，无法完成FAFSA的信息.
Examples of unusual circumstances include the following:
- 父母虐待或遗弃，父母无法找到或不应该联系.
Examples that are not considered unusual circumstances:
- The student is self-supporting and/or resides separately from the parents.
- The student and parents are not on speaking terms.
- The parents do not claim the student as a dependent for income tax purposes.
- Parent’s refusal to contribute to the student’s educational expenses.
If you believe you have unusual circumstances, please reach out to your counselor to discuss your situation.
FAFSA Filing for Dependent Students
If you are a dependent student, 请查看下面的常见问题解答，这些问题可能会为您完成2024-2025年FAFSA时出现的问题提供一些有用的答案.
For first-time FASFA filers, who are unfamiliar with the old form, more information is available on our FAFSA Simplification for First Years fact sheet.
对于在前几年提交过FAFSA的归国学生，可以在我们的 Fall 2023 Parent Newsletter.
- 如果你的亲生父母/养父母已婚或有同居关系，并且他们共同提交了联邦税, only one parent will be a contributor.
- 如果你的亲生父母/养父母已婚或有同居关系，并且分别提交了联邦税, both parents will be contributors.
- If your biological/adoptive parents are divorced or separated, 在前一年为你提供超过50%经济支持的父母将是供款人.
- 如果你的亲生父母或养父母离婚或分居，并且在过去的一年里，父母双方都为你提供了等额的经济支持, whichever parent has the greater income and assets will be the contributor.
- 如果你的亲生父母/养父母再婚了，并且和他们的配偶分开报税, your parent and their spouse will both be contributors.
For a helpful guide on determining which parent(s) will be contributors, please see this chart from the Department of Education.
- Contributors are a significant new aspect of the FAFSA, which may change which family members’ information is required on the FAFSA. See above for details on how to determine who your FAFSA contributors are.
- As each contributor enters the FASFA for the first time, they will be directed to an onboarding video to overview the new FAFSA process.
- All contributors must formally provide consent for the use of their personal and tax information on the FAFSA. If any contributor does not provide consent for the use of their information, the FAFSA will not be processed.
- If the student applicant is completing their portion of the FAFSA first, they will be asked to enter their contributors’ information, including an email address. 投稿人将收到一封来自FAFSA的电子邮件邀请，邀请他们登录并完成他们的部分.
- Instructions for reporting child support received by a contributor have changed. In prior years, 学生父母收到的子女抚养费与其他报告的收入在同一基准年作为收入报告. For example, the 2023-2024 FAFSA was based on 2021 tax information, so families reported the child support they received as untaxed income in 2021.
- Beginning with the 2024-2025 FAFSA, 子女抚养费将在最近完成的日历年度结束时作为一项资产报告. For example, the 2024-2025 FAFSA will request 2022 tax and other income information, but families will report child support they received in either 2023 or 2024, depending on when the FAFSA is completed. 子女抚养费将在SAI计算中作为资产计算，而不是收入.
- Instructions for reporting the net worth of contributor-owned businesses have changed. In prior years, 只有拥有至少100名全职员工的企业才需要资产信息. Starting in 2024-2025, 所有供款人拥有的企业的净值必须在FAFSA的资产部分报告.
- Family farms, which serve as the family’s primary residence, must have their net worth reported in the owner’s asset section of the FAFSA. 在过去的几年里，只有非家庭农场才需要将净资产作为一项资产报告.
- 家庭规模问题(以前称为家庭规模)的回答方式发生了变化. See above in the General Information section for more details.
有关术语变化以及如何回答FAFSA问题的更多详细信息, please see this helpful guide.
家长可以在学生不在场的情况下完成FAFSA的很大一部分. In these cases, the parent(s) will be asked to input all student personal information, as well as the financial information which is self-reported. For students who are tax-filers, student consent will be required for the use of their tax information in the FAFSA, and therefore required for FAFSA completion. 家长将同意使用他们自己的信息(不是学生申请人的)，并输入他们所要求的信息, and complete their portion of the FAFSA with a review and signature using their FSA ID. At a later date, the student must log into the FAFSA, provide their consent and signature, and submit the student portion of the FAFSA. FAFSA只有在学生同意和签名后才会完成和处理.
FAFSA Filing for Independent Students
If you are a dependent student, 请查看下面的常见问题解答，这些问题可能会为您完成2024-2025年FAFSA时出现的问题提供一些有用的答案.
- If you are an independent student who is not married or in a domestic partnership, you will be the sole contributor on the FAFSA.
- If you are an independent student who is married or in a domestic partnership, both you and your spouse will be contributors on the FAFSA.
- Contributors are a significant new aspect of the FAFSA, which may change which family members’ information is required on the FAFSA. See above for details on how to determine who your FAFSA contributors are.
- As each contributor enters the FASFA for the first time, they will be directed to an onboarding video to overview the new FAFSA process.
- All contributors must formally provide consent for the use of their personal and tax information on the FAFSA. If any contributor does not provide consent for the use of their information, the FAFSA will not be processed.
- Instructions for reporting child support received by a contributor have changed. In prior years, 学生收到的子女抚养费与其他报告的收入在同一基准年作为收入报告. For example, the 2023-2024 FAFSA was based on 2021 tax information, so families reported the child support they received as untaxed income in 2021.
- Beginning with the 2024-2025 FAFSA, 子女抚养费将在最近完成的日历年度结束时作为一项资产报告. For example, the 2024-2025 FAFSA will request 2022 tax and other income information, but families will report child support they received in either 2023 or 2024, depending on when the FAFSA is completed. 子女抚养费将在SAI计算中作为资产计算，而不是收入.
- Instructions for reporting the net worth of contributor-owned businesses have changed. In prior years, 只有拥有至少100名全职员工的企业才需要资产信息. Starting in 2024-2025, 所有供款人拥有的企业的净值必须在FAFSA的资产部分报告.
- Family farms, which serve as the applicant’s primary residence, must have their net worth reported in the asset section of the FAFSA. 在过去的几年里，只有非家庭农场才需要将净资产作为一项资产报告.
- 家庭规模问题(以前称为家庭规模)的回答方式发生了变化. See above in the General Information section for more details.
No. Because graduate-level federal loans are not need-based, the changes to the FAFSA, including the new SAI formula, will not change your loan eligibility compared to prior years. However, changes to other criteria may impact your eligibility, including but not limited to: your registration status (e.g. full-time, half-time, etc.); the amount of previously borrowed federal loan debt you have; and, in the case of the Federal Graduate PLUS Loan, meeting the credit requirements.