NEED HELP WITH FAFSA? Helpful Contact

ATTEND AN EVENT BELOW Information Please remember to bring your family’s 2018 Tax Returns, Parents & Student’s FINANCIAL Social Security #’s (if applicable) For general issues/questions about

Madison High School applying for financial aid contact: Thursday, Oct.17th 5pm – 8pm 3787 Bedford Ave. , NY 11229  FAFSA Hotline: 1-800-433-3243 AID  TAP Hotline: 1-888-697-4372 Tuesday, Oct. 29th 5pm – 8 pm 2839 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11210 For questions related to CUNY

New Utrecht High School Colleges admission or financial aid, 101 Thursday, Nov. 7th 5pm-8pm 1601 80th St. Brooklyn, NY 11214 contact the following numbers below

SUNY Downstate Medical Center CUNY COLLEGE ADMISSIONS FINANCIAL AID Saturday, Nov. 9th at 11am-2pm 395 Lenox Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Baruch College 646-312-1400 646-312-1360 *RSVP REQUIRED* BMCC 212-220-1265 212-220-1430

Fashion Institute of Technology 718-951-5001 718-951-5051 Saturday, Nov. 9th at 9am-1pm Seventh Ave. at 27th St, NY, NY 10001 City College 212-650-6977 212-650-5819 *RSVP REQUIRED* CSI 718-982-2010 718-982-2030 SUNY Welcome Center Monday, Nov. 4th at 6:30pm-8:30pm Guttman CC 646-313-8010 646-313-8011 33 W 42nd St , NY, 10036 *RSVP REQUIRED* Hunter College 212-772-4490 212-772-4820

SUNY Welcome Center John Jay 212-564-6529 212-237-8149 Monday, Nov. 18th at 6:30pm-8:30pm 33 W 42nd St New York, NY, 10036 Kingsborough CC 718-368-4600 718-368-4644 *RSVP REQUIRED* Laguardia CC 718-482-5000 718-482-7218 SUNY Welcome Center Medgar Evers 718-270-6024 718-270-6141 Monday, Nov. 25th at 6:30pm-8:30pm New Utrecht High School 33 W 42nd St New York, NY, 10036 NY City Tech 718-260-5250 718-260-5700 *RSVP REQUIRED* College Office Queens College 718-997-5600 718-997-5100 *For RSVP Required events, please check REV 10/2019 NUHS website -> College Office Tab -> York College 718-262-2165 718-262-2230

Financial Aid -> SUNY Workshops to RSVP*

WHAT IS FEDERAL STUDENT AID? Step 2: Create FSA ID

 Federal student aid comes from the federal  Both the student and one parent must apply for an FSA ID to complete and sign the FAFSA government. It is money that helps a student  Apply for your FSA ID at: www.fafsa.ed.gov pay for higher education expenses.  FSA ID may take up to 1-3 days to process  Federal student aid covers expenses such as  If your parent does not have a valid SSN#, they Step 5: Review Your Student tuition and fees, room and board, books and cannot create a FSA ID Aid Report (SAR) on FAFSA supplies, and transportation. Step 3: Complete the FAFSA  Within a few days of completing the FAFSA,

WHO GETS FEDERAL STUDENT AID?  Go to www.fafsa.ed.gov to complete the 2020- you will be able to view your Student Aid st 2021 FAFSA after OCTOBER 1 Report (SAR), which contains your  U.S. Citizen or eligible non-citizen  Up to 10 schools may be listed on the FAFSA at one Expected Family Contribution (EFC) –  Have a valid Social Security Number time. If you need to add more schools, you will have to delete and re-submit your FAFSA.  Maintain satisfactory academic progress in the number used to determine your  Be sure to sign your FAFSA by inputting both the financial aid eligibility college or career school student and parent FSA ID  Find more details about eligibility criteria at:  Upon submitting your FAFSA, be sure to print your  If there is an error on your SAR, you may StudentAid.gov/eligibility confirmation page make corrections and re-submit your SAR  Allow 2-3 days to process before you begin the TAP for reprocessing HOW TO APPLY FOR FAFSA? application  If your parent do not have a valid SSN#, please put Step 6: Complete all 000 -00-0000 as their SSN#. Your parent will have Supplemental Financial Aid to sign and mail in the FAFSA signature page. Once your application is approved then you can being the Applications (if required) TAP application. This takes about 3-4 weeks.  Some colleges may require students to complete additional financial aid STEP 1: Gather Documents applications such as the CSS Profile.

Please make sure you have all the documents  A complete list of colleges that require the below for both STUDENT and PARENT(S) before CSS Profile is available at: you begin the FAFSA application!!! Step 4: Complete the TAP App. https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/  Social Security# and/or Student Green Card  After you print your FAFSA confirmation page, click  2018 tax returns and W-2 forms on the link that says, “Start Your State  Bank Statements Application” (TAP)  Records of untaxed income such as welfare  You can also begin your application at: www.tap.hesc.ny.gov/totw/ benefits, Social Security Income, veteran’s  TAP will only allow (1) NYS college to be listed at a

benefits, or military allowances time. However, all NYS schools will be able to access the information from the FAFSA application.  Records of investments, stocks, bonds, etc.