Review Your FAFSA Submission Summary

The FAFSA Submission Summary for the 2024–25 award year (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025) is a summary of the FAFSA data you submitted. You (the student) will get your FAFSA Submission Summary after your FAFSA form is processed. Look over your FAFSA Submission Summary carefully, make sure you didn’t make a mistake on your FAFSA form, and make corrections to your FAFSA data if necessary. Find out more about the FAFSA Submission Summary, its purpose, how the method you use to file your FAFSA form determines when you’ll get the FAFSA Submission Summary, and what you should do with the FAFSA Submission Summary.

Provide Required Verification

You might see a note on your FAFSA Submission Summary saying you’ve been selected for verification; or the Student Financial Services Office, C105, might contact you to inform you that you’ve been selected. Verification is the process GCC uses to confirm that the data reported on your FAFSA form is accurate. If you’re selected for verification, the Student Financial Services Office will request additional documentation that supports the information you reported.  You can also find any outstanding financial aid requirements on MY GCC.

Verification of High School Graduation

High School Completion or Recognized Equivalent of a High School Diploma — Students who have graduated from high school are required to submit an official copy of their high school transcript to the Office of Admission prior to the start of their first semester. Students completing a High School Equivalency Credential are required to submit an official copy of their High School Equivalency Credential score report to the Office of Admission prior to the start of their first semester. Documentation of completion of secondary work awarded outside the United States must be translated and evaluated to U.S. standards through a credential evaluating agency. Agencies can be found online at naces.org.

Homeschool —  All home schooled students, without a high school diploma or High School Equivalency Credential, may apply for admission to a degree or certificate program provided they have successfully completed an approved home school program in accordance with Massachusetts General Laws or the laws of their home state. Home schooled students must submit, with the Application for Admission, evidence that the home school program was approved by the student’s school district’s superintendent or school committee. If the student is under the age of compulsory attendance (16 years old in Massachusetts) and has completed a home school program, the student’s school district’s superintendent or school committee must provide a letter stating the student is not considered truant and would not be required to attend further schooling or continue to be home schooled. Please contact the Admissions Office at (413) 775-1801 for further details.

Identity/Statement of Educational Purpose

The student must appear in person to an institutionally authorized individual in the Financial Aid Office to verify his or her identity. Verification requires valid government-issued photo identification (ID), such as but not limited to a driver’s license, other state-issued ID or passport. In addition, the student must sign, in the presence of the institutional official, the Statement of Educational Purpose.