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We must receive all Financial Aid application materials by March 1.

Please Note: We suggest that you complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) 2 weeks prior to due date; this will ensure we receive your information on time.

Common application mistakes include:

• Submitted PDF's with securities. Please ensure there are no securities on PDF files you submit.
• Forgetting to use The Warren Alpert Medical School's federal code.
• Forgetting to have parents sign tax forms.
• Submitting required application documents late.
• Submitting the FAFSA form for the wrong academic year.

If you wish to apply for federal financial aid only, you must submit the FAFSA.

If you wish to be considered for institutional and federal financial aid, you must submit:

• The Warren Alpert Medical School Financial Aid Application
• the FAFSA
• the CSS Profile
• your parents' signed federal tax returns and W2 forms (including all schedules)
• and student federal tax return & W-2 form(s)

Please refer to the Financial Aid Guide for a detailed description of the requirements.

Please complete and transmit the FAFSA electronically via the FAFSA web site.

*Please Note: Due to changes in federal procedures regarding the application process for Financial Aid, please be sure to e-file your tax return at least two weeks prior to filing your FAFSA. This will help to ensure that your tax information is processed by the IRS in time to be retrieved electronically into your FAFSA, and will decrease the likelihood that you will have to resubmit the FAFSA again with updated income information. Please select the Data Retrieval tool to retrieve IRS information into your FAFSA form.

Additionally, the federal government considers students at the graduate level and beyond to be independent from their parents with respect to financial aid. Therefore, students applying for federal loans only with The Warren Alpert Medical School do not need to include their parent financial information in the FAFSA. (Those applying for institutional aid must include parent information on the FAFSA.)

For each year that a student would like to be considered for financial aid, the student must complete the required forms. The financial aid application includes periods of enrollment from July 1 to June 30. If you are applying for external funding (federal loans) only, you are not required to submit an application to The Warren Alpert Medical School, but still need to complete the FAFSA each year.

If the March 1 deadline is met, you will receive aid notifications by the last week in April.

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