Luckily, the FAFSA has a quick and easy tool that will walk you through the criteria used to calculate these numbers and provide you with an estimated SAI and Pell Grant amount before you submit an official FAFSA. You will use this to retrieve these numbers to enter below.
1. Go to the
FAFSA Financial Aid Estimator tool and follow the prompts (this will open in a new window so you do not close out of this form). This should take no longer than 5-10 minutes.
2. Make note of the
SAI and
Pell Grant amounts that the tool provides you. The results should look something like this, with the necessary numbers circled:

3. Enter this information below.