The FAFSA Application is available October 1st the year prior to school beginning. For example, for the 2022-2023 school year, the FAFSA became available October 1, 2021 and will use 2020 tax information.

We encourage all students submit their FAFSA no later than April 1st each year. 

The FAFSA must be RECEIVED by the Federal processor (not postmarked/submitted) by the posted dates to be considered for the Tuition Aid Grant (TAG), Governor’s Urban Scholarship, NJ STARS and NJ STARS II programs. In most cases, your FAFSA for the upcoming year must be processed before April 15th. To ensure adequate time for your FAFSA to process, we strongly recommend the FAFSA is completed for all students by April 1st each year. 

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If you are not meeting the standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) you may be able to submit an appeal in order to regain eligibility for the upcoming term. You would have received an email from our office explaining the process. Please make sure you submit your appeal to us as soon as possible, but definitely within the deadlines below. 

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Financial aid appeals due to a qualifying change in family income (Income Adjustment Appeal), or to dependency status related to special circumstances (Dependency Override Appeal) generally require a process of submitting appropriate documentation to our office over the course of a few weeks. 

When we approve your appeal we make changes to your FAFSA (aka corrections) which need to be processed by the published Department of Education deadline. To allow us time to review your appeal and request any additional documents that may be needed, you must submit your initial appeal no later than the date listed below.

Please understand that by submitting your initial appeal by the deadline below does not guarantee your appeal will be approved and processed in time for the federal deadline. Help us, help you- respond to all requests for additional documents promptly.