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If you are admitted to Harvard during Early Action and have met your financial aid deadlines, you will receive an estimated financial aid decision around the time you receive your admissions decision. This will include a parent and student contribution, an estimated cost of attendance (which will be updated in the Spring when tuition and fees have been set for 25-26), and your total eligibility for grant aid. When we have received and processed your FAFSA, we will update this grant eligibility to break out funding from Harvard, federal, and state sources. Since we use our own methodology to determine your parent and student contribution, this will in most cases not change these parts of your financial aid package. If the information on your FAFSA conflicts with information submitted on the rest of your application materials (for example, if you report an investment account that you forgot to include on the CSS Profile), we will reach out to resolve these differences and may update your financial aid decision if the updated information changes your eligibility for financial aid.

Since the FAFSA determines your eligibility for Federal Work-Study funding and subsidized federal student loans, we will also update you on your eligibility for these programs after your FAFSA has been submitted and reviewed.

We expect to send out finalized financial aid decisions around April 1 to students who meet the listed financial aid deadlines. Late applications will be reviewed as soon as possible after this point.