After receiving your completed application, the Department's processor will analyze your FAFSA information and, using a formula established into law by Congress, calculate an Expected Family Contribution (EFC) for you. The results of your application will be sent to the schools you list on your application and to you in the form of a Student Aid Report (SAR) or a SAR Acknowledgement. If you have a valid e-mail address on file, you will receive an e-mail that provides you with a link to a Web site that will allow you to check and print your SAR data online. We will send this e-mail if

• Your name, date of birth, and Social Security number match Social Security Administration records;
• You and your parents have signed the application or SAR; and
• Your application record did not result from a subsequent application.

If you do not meet all of the conditions above, you will receive your application results in the mail: A Student Aid Report (SAR) if you apply using a paper FAFSA, or a SAR Acknowledgement if you use FAFSA on the Web.

If you need to make changes to your application information, you can make them electronically through Corrections on the Web using your PIN, or return the corrected and signed paper SAR for reprocessing. Note, however, that you cannot make any changes to income or asset information if that information was correct at the time you submitted your original application. Such information represents a "snapshot" of your family's financial strength and cannot be updated.