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Round Lake staff demos 2025–26 FAFSA walkthrough for students and parents
Summary
A staff member at Round Lake CUSD 116’s College and Career Center demonstrated how to complete the 2025–26 FAFSA, highlighting FSA ID login, IRS data transfer, parent contributor invites and verification steps for special circumstances.
A staff member from the Round Lake CUSD 116 College and Career Center demonstrated the 2025–26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), guiding students and parents through login, data transfer from the IRS, dependency questions and the parent contributor process.
The demonstration showed the full online flow: logging in with an FSA ID, consenting to pull federal tax information from the IRS, answering dependency and homelessness questions, inviting parents or stepparents to contribute, and signing and submitting the form to generate a student aid index (SAI) for colleges.
The presenter explained that students must sign in with an FSA ID and that the portal will prompt a two-factor code by phone or email. “I will be walking through the FAFSA by using this prototype,” the staff member said, then proceeded to create a student form and show the four introductory FAFSA videos available on the site.
The staff member walked through the IRS data-transfer consent, noting that…
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