{"id":217254,"date":"2025-10-03T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/?p=217254"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:03:26","slug":"2026-2027-fafsa-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/2025\/10\/03\/2026-2027-fafsa-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2026-2027 FAFSA is Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fill out your 2026-2027 Free Application for Federal Student Aid\u202f(FAFSA) today! <strong>Montclair\u2019s priority deadline is March 1, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal School Code: 002617<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>What Can I Do Now?<\/h2>\n<p>You and your parent(s)\/step-parent or spouse can complete the FAFSA for the 2026-27 year using your FSA IDs.<\/p>\n<p>Parents without a Social Security Number should obtain an FSA ID at <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/fsa-id\/create-account\/launch\"><strong>Create Account | Federal Student Aid<\/strong><\/a>. This will make it easier to complete the FAFSA on the web.<\/p>\n<h2>What Will Happen When I File the FAFSA?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>You will receive your FAFSA Submission Summary (with the information you provided on the FAFSA) within 3-5 days<\/li>\n<li>The college(s) you list on the FAFSA will receive your FAFSA data as well.\n<ul>\n<li>Montclair will begin processing financial aid for new students in mid-January and after May grades are posted for continuing students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>NJ Alternative Financial Aid Applicants<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re not eligible to file the FAFSA, you may qualify for state aid through the NJ Alternative Financial Aid Application, available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesaa.org\/pages\/njalternativeapplication.aspx\"><strong>HESAA.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need Help Completing the FAFSA or NJ Alternative Financial Aid Application?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesaa.org\/Pages\/FAFSA.aspx\"><strong>FAFSA Webinars Provided by HESAA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesaa.org\/Pages\/NJAlternativeApplication.aspx\"><strong>Alternative Application Webinars Provided by HESAA<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Stay Informed<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out more information by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/announcements-events\/fafsa-support\"><strong>FAFSA website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentaid.gov\/fsa-id\/sign-in\/landing?redirectTo=\/settings\/edit-information\/communication-preferences\"><strong>Opt into SMS messages<\/strong><\/a> by logging into your StudentAid.gov account to receive up-to-date notifications and information.<\/li>\n<li>Follow Federal Student Aid on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAFSA\"><strong>Twitter\/X<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/federalstudentaid\/\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FederalStudentAid\/\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> for announcements and resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Early Bird Gets the Worm, Fill Out your FAFSA Today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":214305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,38,36,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-deadlines","category-featured-news","category-red-hawk-central","category-red-hawk-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217260,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217254\/revisions\/217260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/student-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}