If I applied for fafsa, does applying to four colleges look more appealing than just one?
for financial aid purposes it doesn’t matter how many schools you put down. Listing them just gets your information sent to the schools financial aid office. If you know for SURE you are going to go to one, you only need to list that one. However, if you don’t have the cash in hand to PAY for that one college and want to do some shopping around to see which school you can attend with the least amount of student loans, you might consider leaving your options open by listing all four. You’d be amazed at how many kids are absolutely positive they are going to go to one school, and when it comes time to pay the bill the kids and the parents choke and things change. They show up at the local community college, trying to get fin aid and the school has NO record of their fafsa info because they didn’t list them. It delays everything and the student winds up starting school without financial aid. If I were you, id put as many schools as you are considering and then a few local backups.
