Grad type verification

This item will appear in your Financing Tasks on My ASU when conflicting information exists between your ASU admit status and your FAFSA responses. The conflicting information must be resolved before you will be offered or disbursed any financial aid. Resolution includes correcting your FAFSA responses or updating your ASU admit status. 

ASU's Financial Aid and Scholarship Services must compare your current ASU grade level and prior degrees earned via official academic transcripts to your FAFSA responses regarding your grade level and prior degrees earned to determine your financial aid eligibility.

Below are the FAFSA questions that are compared to your ASU admit status as well as guidance on how to fix your FAFSA.

2019–2020 FAFSA questions

Question 28 (under the "Student Demographics" tab on the FAFSAwebsite):

Will you have your first bachelor's degree before you begin the 2019–2020 school year?

Question 48 (under the "Dependency Status" tab on the FAFSA website):

At the beginning of the 2019–2020 school year, will you be working on a master's degree or doctoral program?

Grad type

How to correct your 20192020 FAFSA

Reason for the FAFSA correction

Grad type 1

Correct FAFSA question 28 to "No".

You will not have your first bachelor's degree at the start of the 2019–2020 year.

Grad type 2

Correct FAFSA questions 28 and 48 to "Yes".

You are admitted as a graduate student for the 2019–2020 year and you will have your first bachelor's degree at the start of the 2019–2020 year.

Grad type 3

Correct FAFSA question 48 to "Yes".

You are admitted as a graduate student for the 2019–2020 year.

Grad type 4

Correct FAFSA question 48 to "No".

You are admitted as an undergraduate student for the 2019–2020 year.

Grad type 5

Contact Financial Aid and Scholarship Services for details.

Grad type 6

Correct FAFSA question 28 to "Yes".

You will have your first bachelor's degree at the start of the 2019–2020 year.

Grad type 7

Correct FAFSA question 48 to "No".

You are not admitted as a graduate student for the 2019–2020 year.

 

Additional information

  • Financial Aid and Scholarship Services may correct your FAFSA responses on your behalf as long as parent information and signature are not required as a result of the correction and all applicable official academic transcripts have been submitted and evaluated by ASU Admission Services.
  • FAFSA corrections may take 5 to 7 business days to process.
  • When no conflicting information exists, this Financing Task will be completed. 
  • Please contact ASU Financial Aid and Scholarship Services for any FAFSA questions.

ASU admission help

  • Outstanding items needed to complete your ASU admission application may be found on My ASU in your Priority Tasks.
  • Find the status of your ASU admission application on My ASU under My Application Status.
  • Please contact ASU Admission Services for any admission application questions. 

Tips

  • Request an official academic transcript from each school you have attended and have it sent to ASU Admission Services. 
  • Once your degree is posted by your previous school, request a final official academic transcript showing the degree earned and have it sent to ASU Admission Services.
  • If you earned a bachelor's degree from ASU and are now seeking an ASU graduate degree, you do not need to request your final official academic transcript.
  • If you have completed a bachelor's degree and immediately begin a graduate program in the next term, you must wait until your bachelor's degree is verified and posted before this Financing Task can be completed (i.e., undergraduate in fall and graduate in spring, or undergraduate in summer and graduate in the fall).
  • If you complete a bachelor's degree by the end of summer and will be a graduate student in the fall, respond "Yes" to FAFSA question 28 under the Student Demographics tab.