2010-2011 FAFSA Form Guide and Application Help

How to fill out the 2010-2011 Free Application for Federal Student Aid - and not miss a dime of financial aid!

All-new 2010-2011 FAFSA Form Guide!

The FAFSA financial aid form is probably the single most important financial aid form you will ever complete in your career as a college student or parent of a college student. The 2010-2011 FAFSA form will be bringing lots of new changes to the FAFSA that change financial aid eligibility for many students and families.

The 2010-2011 FAFSA form is currently in draft form and our information in this section will be changing as more becomes known about the 2010-2011 FAFSA. If you're looking for the FAFSA guide, click here.

We'll be focusing exclusively on the 2010-2011 FAFSA, which became available for filing on January 1, 2010 for the 2010-2011 school year.

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What's new on the 2010-2011 FAFSA form

2010-2011 FAFSA Colors

The 2010-2011 FAFSA colors are blue for student information and purple for parent information.

FAFSA Year References

All year references have been incremented by one year.

FAFSA Design

The design and layout of the FAFSA are consistent with the 2010-2011 FAFSA which was redesigned into a booklet format. The application pages are numbered three through eight and can be torn out for submission.

The informational pages and notes pages surround the application (pages one through two and pages nine through ten).

As in previous years, a return envelope is included.

Data Elements added

For both the student and parent a data field has been added to the Additional Financial Information. Questions 44(f) and 92(f) will collect amounts for earnings from work under a cooperative education program offered by an institution of higher education.

Data Elements deleted

The two data elements for veterans education benefits are deleted (formerly Questions 44 and 45).

State deadlines have been updated.

Revisions to marital status responses (Question 16).