From the Georgia Student Finance Commission:
GSFC is committed to assisting your seniors complete the FAFSA as they pursue their academic path after high school. As you all know the FAFSA was delayed this year due to the updating of the application and processes. Additional information was just released regarding the launch and the completion data of the 2024-2025 FAFSA. Some highlights:
- Soft Launch period will be December 31st through the end of January. During this time, FSA will conduct pauses in the application process for maintenance.
- FSA has asked that students “do not rush to fill out the form immediately” during the soft launch.
- During soft launch, applicants may experience a wait room feature that is designed to control website volume.
- Site maintenance during the soft launch may interrupt the application process and the student will need to log in at another date to complete the application.
- Colleges the student selected on the FAFSA will not begin to receive the information until late January into early February, so students can expect to see communications from the colleges “several weeks” after that time.
- GSFC will not begin to receive completion data until the end of February at the earliest and will provide completion data to counselors or approved staff from institution administrators at that time.
- Finally FSA is recommending to not hold FAFSA events until after January to account for unscheduled site maintenance which would impact completion events.
From Mrs. Jernigan:
TLDR: FAFSA is not really ready although it is open. We will conduct a FAFSA workshop in mid to late February (TBD) to assist. "Do not rush to fill out the form immediately."