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Your FAFSA Deadline..What You Need to Know


The FAFSA deadline to submit an application is at midnight (Central Daylight time) on June 30, 2010 for the 2009-2010 form and June 30, 2011 for the 2010-2011 FAFSA form.

These are the federal 2010-2011 FAFSA application deadlines. As long as your application is received before then, you can get federal aid.

But even though the second "F" in FAFSA does stand for "Federal", there are other deadlines to consider. Each state has its own deadline for state aid.

And each college has its own deadline too. And all of these deadlines can change from year to year- so its important to check them when you need to renew FAFSA .

You can find out what your state deadline is for the 2010-2011 school year by mousing over your state on the map below:


Map of the United States

Alabama- Check with your financial aid administratorAlaska- must be received by April 15, 2010American Samoa- Check with your financial aid administratorArizona- Check with your financial aid administratorArkansas- For Academic Challenge - June 1, 2010 (date received); For Workforce Grant - check with your financial aid administrator; For Higher Education Opportunity Grant - June 1, 2010 (fall term); November 1, 2010 (spring term) - date receivedCalifornia- For initial awards - March 2, 2010; For additional community college awards - September 2, 2010 - date postmarkedColorado- Check with your financial aid administratorConnecticut- must be received by February 15, 2010Delaware- must be received by April 15, 2010Washington, DC- must be received by June 30, 2010Florida- must be processed by May 15, 2010Georgia- Check with your financial aid administratorGuam- Check with your financial aid administratorHawaii- Check with your financial aid administratorIdaho- Opportunity Grant- must be received by March 1, 2010Illinois- As soon as possible after January 1, 2010- Awards made until funds depletedIndiana- must be received by March 10, 2010Iowa- must be received by July 1, 2010Kansas- must be received by April 1, 2010Kentucky- must be received by March 15, 2010Louisiana- must be received by July 1, 2010Maine- must be received by May 1, 2010Maryland- must be received by March 1, 2010Massachusetts- must be received by May 1, 2010Michigan- must be received by March 1, 2010Minnesota- must be received 30 days after term startsMississippi- MTAG and MESG Grants - September 15, 2010; HELP Scholarship - March 31, 2010 (date processed)Missouri- must be received by April 1, 2010Montana- must be received by March 1, 2010Nebraska- Check with your financial aid administratorNevada- Check with your financial aid administratorNew Hampshire- must be received by May 1, 2010New Jersey- June 1, 2010 if you received a Tuition Aid Grant in 2009-2010; All other applications - October 1, 2010, for fall and spring terms; March 1, 2011, for spring term only (date received)New Mexico- Check with your financial aid administratorNew York- must be received by May 1, 2011North Carolina- Check with your financial aid administratorNorth Dakota- must be received by March 15, 2010Northern Mariana Islands- Check with your financial aid administratorOhio- must be received by October 1, 2010Oklahoma- must be received by April 15, 2010Oregon- OSAC Scholarship- March 1, 2010, Oregon Opportunity Grant- Check with your financial aid administratorPennsylvania- All 2009-2010 State Grant recipients and all non-2009-2010 State Grant recipients in degree programs - May 1, 2010; All other applicants - August 1, 2010 (date received)Puerto Rico- Check with your financial aid administrator Rhode Island- must be received by March 1, 2010South Carolina- Tuition Grants- must be received by June 30, 2010South Dakota- Check with your financial aid administratorTennessee- For State Grant- February 15, 2010; For State Lottery- September 1, 2010 (date received)Texas- Check with your financial aid administratorTrust Territories- Check with your financial aid administratorUtah- Check with your financial aid administratorVermont- Check with your financial aid administratorVirgin Islands- Check with your financial aid administratorVirginia- Check with your financial aid administratorWashington- Check with your financial aid administrator West Virginia- must be received by April 15, 2010Wisconsin- Check with your financial aid administratorWyoming- Check with your financial aid administrator

Make sure you notice whether your state deadline refers to receiving the application or processing it.If it says "must be received by", you should get proof of the date that you submitted the application.

The printable FAFSA application can be downloaded and used for your own records. You can also check to see what kind of information you will need to gather so you can meet your deadline.

A new pilot program in the Department of Education will allow some high schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) to find out whether or not their students have submitted a completed FAFSA, simply by giving the student's name, address and date of birth.

If you and your parents opt to "share" disclosure of FAFSA information, it may not be just your future school(s) that will know whether or not you've made your FAFSA deadline.



Even if you are not ready to fill out the form, go to the FAFSA website and get your FAFSA PIN to save some time.

The FAFSA for next fall/spring terms usually comes out in January. File early, even if you have to estimate your tax information. (This is not that hard to do, because to FAFSA, deferred compensation is considered income rather than assets.) FAFSA corrections can be made later on. Corrections should only be made if the information was wrong, not if things have changed since you filed. (If this happens, contact your financial aid office- they can change your data to get you more financial aid for college.)

Remember, the sooner you know your EFC number, the sooner you'll know how much money you need to come up with for school. Simply meeting the Pell grant qualifications is not enough to get other kinds of aid that that might qualify you for (such as federal Perkins student loans). If you wait too long to apply, that money will go to someone else.

For added speed, use the FAFSA online application.


college loan consultant Awareness of your FAFSA deadline will help your overall financial aid strategy and planning. By missing a deadline, you could be giving up thousands of dollars in state or institutional aid.


A Pell grant is a college funding lifesaver.



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