This must be completed before any federal loan money is disbursed to your student account. For more information and to complete your entrance counseling, go to the Federal Student Aid website. When you are finished, a record of your completion will be sent to Harvard. Please keep in mind that you cannot save and leave an incomplete session; you must complete entrance counseling in one sitting. It should take less than 15 minutes. Please have your FSA ID ready to log in.

Scholarship funds at Harvard College are awarded strictly on the basis of financial need. The need-based scholarship you receive may include one or more named funds, donated by generous alumni and friends of the College. On the FAADS you will be asked several questions about your background and experiences at Harvard. This information is used by the Griffin Financial Aid Office to match any preferences that donors may have included in the terms of their scholarship funds. The information you provide may also be used by Harvard’s Alumni Affairs and Development Office to highlight the impact of Harvard’s financial aid program.

This is a required form for Federal Direct student loan borrowers. You complete this form online on studentaid.gov. Please have your FSA ID ready to log in. Once this is signed, Harvard can disburse the loan funds to your student account.

This is required for first-time student loan borrowers in the Harvard Student Loan Program. You complete this form online through Heartland ECSI only after the Financial Aid Office has instructed you to do so. Once signed, Harvard can disburse the loan funds to your student account.

Once abroad, some students may be required to submit a Study Abroad Consortium Agreement that must be completed by the study abroad program. The consortium verifies expenses abroad and verifies whether the program is providing any outside awards. Once completed, the consortium should be uploaded to the Study Abroad Consortium Agreement Uploader.

The Study Abroad Supplement is a required document for students planning on studying abroad so that the semester budget can be updated to reflect study abroad costs. This is due on May 1 for the fall or full-year study abroad and on October 31 for spring study abroad. If you are no longer planning on going abroad, please email faoinfo@fas.harvard.edu.

This document is required to verify the accuracy of certain tax data elements reported on your FAFSA. (Adjusted gross income, U.S. income tax paid, Education credits, Untaxed IRA distributions, IRA deductions and payments, and Tax-exempt interest). If this document is required, you have two options:

Go online to request an official 2021 tax return transcript from the IRS.

1. Go to the IRS website.
2. Click on “View Your Account”.
3. Click on “Create or View Your Account”.
4. Once logged in, click on “View Tax Records”.
5. Click on “Get Transcript”.
6. Choose “Higher Education/Student Aid” next to “Select a reason you need a transcript” and leave Customer File Number Blank.
7. Select “Go".
8. Click on “2021” in the Return Transcript box.
9. Print the Tax Return Transcript to PDF and submit it via our secure Verification Uploader.

Submit a signed copy of the 2021 tax return or international tax return.

1. Upload your hand-signed tax return via our secure Verification Uploader. You should submit both Page 1 and 2 of the U.S. 1040 in one PDF attachment along with any tax schedules. The tax return must be signed at the bottom of Page 2 in the SIGN HERE box.

Please submit one of the following acceptable documents via our secure Verification Uploader. Please make sure the document is signed where indicated.

For US Citizenship:

• U.S. Passport (most common) - Current or expired, five or ten-year passport only.
• Certificate of Naturalization (N-550 or N-570).
• Certificate of Citizenship (N-560 or N-561).
• Birth certificate (showing you were born in the US).
• Wallet-sized Passport Card.
• Form FS-240 (Consular Report of Birth Abroad), FS-545 (Certificate of birth issued by a foreign service post), or DS-1350 (Certification of Report of Birth).

For Eligible Noncitizens:

• Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551 since 1997).
• Resident Alien Card (Form I-551 before 1997).

If this document is listed on your student portal, you must provide one of the following:

1. A copy of your high school diploma.
2. A copy of a final, official high school transcript that shows the date when the diploma was awarded.

Students must provide one of the following documents that indicate their high school completion status at the beginning of the 2023-2024 award year. The document should be submitted via our Verification Uploader.

If this is required, you will be contacted under separate cover with instructions for completing this process. The process involves meeting with the Verification Coordinator to present your unexpired identification (U.S. Passport, Driver’s License, or State Issued ID). The student must also sign (it must be a “wet” signature) a statement of educational purpose that certifies who they are and that the federal student aid they may receive will only be used for educational purposes and for the cost of attending Harvard for the 2023-2024 academic year.

When you submitted your financial aid application, you indicated that you will have a sibling or siblings enrolled in college during the academic year for which you are applying for aid. Please complete the top half of the Verification of Sibling Enrollment form and have the Financial Aid Office or Registrar at your sibling’s school complete the bottom half of the form. Once completed, the form should be submitted via our Sibling Verification Uploader. If your sibling’s plans have changed and they will no longer be enrolled for the academic year, please complete the top half of the form indicating they will not be enrolled and submit it to our office so we can change our records.

The Verification Worksheet confirms information reported on your FAFSA regarding your custodial parent household. Information such as your family size, any siblings enrolled in college during the academic year for which you are applying for aid, and the tax filing status of both you and your parent(s). If your parents are divorced/separated, the information on this document should reflect only the custodial parent’s household. Please note we cannot accept electronic signatures. In other words, the form must be hand signed by both you and a custodial parent. If you are considered an Independent student for federal aid purposes (are married, will be age 24 by January 1, etc.), a parent signature is not required. The completed verification worksheet should be submitted via our Verification Uploader.

For undergraduate students who intend to use VA Benefits, we require each student to submit a Certificate of Eligibility. Students should apply for their benefit(s) directly through the VA (https://www.va.gov/). Once it has been obtained, the Certificate of Eligibility should be uploaded through our Verification Uploader.

We do not require students to submit their COE after they use their benefit(s) for the first time unless their percentage of eligibility should change. Students can direct any questions about benefit eligibility and coverage to the VA Educational Benefits line at 1-888-442-4551.

This online Veteran's Notice of Student Enrollment is specific to Veteran's Benefits and is necessary for us to certify a student through the VA. The student must complete this form for each academic year they are enrolled and plan on using their VA Benefit(s). If the VA Benefit you are eligible for requires a VA Certificate of Eligibility, a Determine Letter, or other form, you must upload that form to your school financial aid office. Note that a DD-214 may not be used in place of a required form.

There may be other documents required for verification not listed above. If we require a missing tax document, please upload that to IDOC. If you are unsure what we are requesting, please contact our office at (617) 495-1581 or  faoinfo@fas.harvard.edu for more information about what we are missing and how to submit it.

In most cases, if you don't submit the missing information then we will be unable to credit your financial aid to your student bill. This means that the 'anticipated aid' that you see on your bill will eventually disappear, and the full set of charges will be due.

You should submit the missing information as soon as possible. For some types of missing information, you may be given a specific deadline by which you absolutely need to submit.