After the FAFSA
Make Sure Your 2025–26 FAFSA® Form Was Processed
Check the status of your form by logging in to your StudentAid.gov account and selecting your FAFSA submission from the “My Activity” section of your account Dashboard.
If you submitted a paper FAFSA form, you can check its status after it has been processed. We’ll begin processing paper 2025–26 forms in July.
For the 2025–26 FAFSA form, the status of your application will be one of the following:
Draft: Your section of the FAFSA form is incomplete.
In Progress: You provided your consent, approval, and signature to your section of the FAFSA form, but the FAFSA form has not been submitted yet.
In Review: The FAFSA form was submitted but not processed yet.
Action Required: You are missing your consent and approval or signature; or the FAFSA form was processed, but a correction is required.
Processed: Your application was processed successfully. No further action is needed.
Closed: Your FAFSA form was never submitted and can no longer be submitted because the federal FAFSA deadline passed.
Review Your FAFSA Submission Summary
The FAFSA Submission Summary for the 2025–26 award year (July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026) is a summary of the FAFSA data you submitted. You (the student) will get your FAFSA Submission Summary after your FAFSA form is processed. Look over your FAFSA Submission Summary carefully, make sure you didn’t make a mistake on your FAFSA form, and make corrections to your FAFSA data if necessary. Find out more about the FAFSA Submission Summary, its purpose, how the method you use to file your FAFSA form determines when you’ll get the FAFSA Submission Summary, and what you should do with the FAFSA Submission Summary.
What Not To Expect From the FAFSA Submission Summary
The FAFSA Submission Summary won’t tell you how much financial aid you’ll get. Also, if you provided consent and approval to obtain your federal tax information from the IRS, the FAFSA Submission Summary won’t show the details of your (or parent) income and tax information.
