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SU's federal school code is 002091. You will need this when completing the FAFSA.

For priority funding, students should submit the FAFSA on or after October 1st. The priority funding deadline is March 1st, however some funds will be awarded on a first come-first serve basis.

The FAFSA requires income from the Prior-Prior Year. For example: You are completing the 2018-2019 FAFSA based on the 2016 Income information.

Your answers to questions on the FAFSA® form determine whether you are considered a dependent or independent student. The questions change a little from one year’s application to the next year’s; for instance, the 2018–19 FAFSA form asks whether you were born before Jan. 1, 1995, while the 2019–20 FAFSA form will ask whether you were born before Jan. 1, 1996. Here are the questions that determine your dependency status, first in a graphic format and then (for 2018–19 specifically) in a table:

In this case, how you fill out the FAFSA form depends on whether your parents live together or not. Keep the following in mind as you read this section.

• For FAFSA purposes, your married parents are separated if they are considered legally separated by a state, or if they are legally married but have chosen to live separate lives, including living in separate households, as though they were not married.
• When two married persons live as a married couple but are separated by physical distance (or have separate households), they are considered married for FAFSA purposes.
• Divorced or Separated Parents Who Do Not Live Together: If your parents are divorced or separated and don’t live together, answer the questions about the parent with whom you lived more during the past 12 months.
• If you lived the same amount of time with each divorced or separated parent, give answers about the parent who provided more financial support during the past 12 months or during the most recent 12 months that you actually received support from a parent.
• Divorced or Separated Parents Who Live Together: If your divorced parents live together, you’ll indicate their marital status as “Unmarried and both legal parents living together," and you will answer questions about both of them on the FAFSA form.
• If your separated parents live together, you’ll indicate their marital status as “Married or remarried" (NOT “Divorced or separated"), and you will answer questions about both of them on the FAFSA form.

If you have a stepparent who is married to the legal parent whose information you’re reporting, you must provide information about that stepparent as well.

EXCEPTION: The FAFSA form asks about your parents’ education level. For these two questions, your parents are considered to be your birth parents or adoptive parents—your stepparent is not your parent in these questions.

Including your stepparent’s information on the FAFSA form helps create an accurate picture of your family’s total financial strength.