Providing responses to questions requiring your state
When completing the FAFSA, there are several times that the student and Parent Contributor are required to report a state. These questions include the student and parent state of legal residence, selection of high school, selection of colleges to receive your FAFSA data, and driver's license state. The state fields operate as a dropdown box. If you type out the entire name of your state "o-h-i-o," the field doesn't recognize that as the state of Ohio. Rather, you should type the first few letters of your state (i.e. o-h) and when the full name of your state appears below the box, select it to populate the full state name.