• Brown University will begin processing submitted FAFSAs in January. If you have listed Brown on your FAFSA, we will receive your application. If further action is required, our office will contact you directly. 
• If you have not yet submitted the FAFSA, you still have time. Please complete it as soon as possible. A late submission will not impact your aid eligibility.

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The ability to correct your FAFSA is now available.  A late FAFSA based on these issues will not impact your Brown aid eligibility.

No. Since the SAI is used only to determine eligibility for federal aid, the SAI is generally different from the calculated Family Responsibility.  Additional information is available here. 

FAFSA Simplification may change your federal aid eligibility. However, at this time, Brown has no plans to change how we determine the financial need for undergraduate students.

While the FAFSA will ask about siblings enrolled in college, the analysis will not adjust for this. As such, this could impact the amount of federal aid you are eligible to receive.   However, at this time, Brown has no plans to change how we determine the financial need for undergraduate students. 

When families have more than one child in college at the same time we adjust the contribution to reflect the cost of the other sibling(s) enrolled in college. Siblings enrolled in graduate, medical or law schools are not included in the number in college for the determination of eligibility for University Scholarship.

The FSA ID is required to complete the FAFSA online as a student applicant or as a contributor (parent/stepparent or spouse of a student applicant). While in the past, a Social Security Number (SSN) was required to obtain an FSA ID, students’ spouses, parents, and stepparents who do not have an SSN can now obtain an FSA ID using an alternative method to verify their identity. Instructions on how to complete the FAFSA if your parent contributor doesn’t have an SSN can be found here: 

How To Submit the FAFSA® Form if Your Contributor Doesn’t Have an SSN

There are a number of questions on the FAFSA related to a student’s dependency status to help you decide whether a parent’s information is required to calculate a Student Aid Index. If, after answering those questions, it is determined that you are “provisionally independent,” once we receive your FAFSA, we will contact you if we need more information to confirm your status.

We have compiled the following additional resources to assist you in completing your FAFSA application:

Federal Student Aid - YouTube

Filling Out the FAFSA® Form | Federal Student Aid

Federal Student Aid FAFSA Help page

Determining Dependency Status | Federal Student Aid

Pro Tips for the FAFSA® Form