Financial Aid Eligibility Issue

High School Completion

On your FAFSA, you did not report that you received a high school diploma or the equivalent. A high school diploma or the equivalent is required to be eligible for federal financial aid.

If you have earned a high school diploma or the equivalent, follow the steps below to resolve this item:

Step 1 - Correct your FAFSA:

  • Log into  using your .
  • Select "Make FAFSA Corrections."
  • Under the "Student Demographics/Information" section, answer the high school completion status question, What will the student鈥檚 high school completion status be at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year?"
    • High school diploma means you have received or will receive a U.S. high school diploma before the first date of your enrollment in college or you have received or will receive a foreign school diploma that is equivalent to a U.S. high school diploma before the first date of your enrollment in college.
    • GED certificate or state authorized high school equivalent certificate means you have received or will receive a General Educational Development (GED) certificate or state authorized high school equivalent certificate before the first date of your enrollment in college. A state authorized high school equivalent certificate is a certificate that the issuing state recognizes as the equivalent of a high school diploma in that state. Note: A high school certificate of attendance and/or a certificate of completion are NOT the equivalent of a high school diploma.
      • If you select State-recognized high school equivalent, you will need to select the type of certificate and the state from which you received it. 
    • Home schooled means you have completed home schooling at the secondary level regulated by your state.
    • None of the above means you do not have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent and did not complete secondary school in a home school setting.
      • If your answer is intended to be "none of the above," please contact our office at 316-978-3430 to speak with a financial aid advisor.  
  • IMPORTANT WORKAROUND: If the high school completion question does not show up when you are trying to make your correction, move forward through the FAFSA form to the 鈥淔inancial Information鈥� section and then move back into the 鈥淪tudent Demographics/Information鈥� section. This may cause the question to show up when it didn鈥檛 originally.
  • Note: If you are a dependent student, be sure that both you and your parent electronically signs the FAFSA once you have made the correction.
  • Submit the FAFSA correction.
  • Allow 3-5 business days for the correction to be received by the Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships.

Step 2 (if you were unable to make the correction to your FAFSA above):

If you have attempted to make the corrections as outlined above but were unable to complete them, and you have also tried to submit the corrections by using the workaround highlighted in yellow above, our office can submit corrections* to your FAFSA on your behalf. To request our office make the necessary corrections to your 2024-2025 FAFSA, complete the below form:

*PLEASE NOTE: The Department of Education has advised that schools will be unable to make corrections to student FAFSAs for 2024-2025 until the end of June at the earliest. We suggest that you still try to complete the corrections on your own until that time to resolve your outstanding requirements more quickly.