How to Apply for Financial Aid

To file the FAFSA, first time applicants need to create a Federal Student Aid (FAS) ID. The FSA ID is a username and password combination used to securely access financial aid information and electronically sign federal student aid documents. Students who previously filed a FAFSA electronically, whether for undergraduate school or a previous year of medical school, should use the same FSA ID when completing a new FAFSA.

The Federal School Code, also known as the Title IV Code, for IU Indianapolis/IU School of Medicine is 001813. It must be included on the FAFSA for the school to receive the applicant’s data.

Students need information about their savings, investments and business assets. They also need information about their spouse and parents’ savings, investments and business assets.

Students must submit parental information to be considered for IU School of Medicine scholarships and fellowships (based partly or solely on financial need), Loans and Scholarships to Disadvantaged Students (LDS and SDS) and Federal Primary Care Loans (preference given to third and fourth year medical students), regardless of the student’s age or independency status. If both parents are deceased, copies of the death certificates must be submitted to the school in order to waive the parental information requirement. If a student is only applying for Direct Loan Federal Unsubsidized Stafford Loans and Graduate PLUS Loan, parental information is not required.

Students who are not US citizens need their alien registration number (also known as USCIS#) as well as the alien registration number for their spouse and parents, if applicable.

Tax information from two years before the academic year for which a student is seeking aid is required. For example, to apply for aid for the 2020-2021 academic year, students must complete the 2020-2021 FAFSA and include 2018 tax information. To complete the Tax Information fields, students need their federal tax return and W2 form for the year before (if the FAFSA is filed by December 31) or for two years before (if the FAFSA is filed after January 1) AND parents’ federal tax return and W2 form or, if married, spouse’s federal tax return and W2 form. Students may be able to use the IRS data retrieval tool to import tax information directly into the FAFSA.