If you are an incoming Freshman student, this message is for you!

No grandiose ideas in the title. I know that change is meaningful and that you will be undertaking major changes soon as you close the book on your high school life and prepare to enter MIT for the next chapter of your saga.

But my purpose in this post is much more mundane.

We just submitted a number of FAFSA corrections for those of you who will be attending MIT next year. What this means is that we made some change to the FAFSA data you provided when you originally applied (maybe your tax information wasn't valid, maybe you left out a sibling, etc.) and we changed your record on our system. We have now reported those changes to the Feds (via a correction file) and as a result the Federal Processor will be sending you a revised Student Aid Report giving you a new Federal EFC and showing you the changes we made.

What do you need to do about this? Nothing.

Will your aid change as a result of these changes? No.

If you are curious and what to know what we changed, how do you find out? Look on the Student Aid Report. Any changes will be identified with a # sign.

Is change sometimes meaningless? Yes.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program...