It depends.
If you didn’t do the FAFSA for a given aid year and the submission deadline has already passed, you can no longer start a new FAFSA form. The deadline is always June 30th of the "trailer" year. So, for the current aid year, 25–26, it is June 30th, 2026. At that point, you can no longer get any additional aid for that year through the FAFSA.
If you did do the FAFSA for a given aid year, but still need to make a correction, you have slightly longer to make that correction. Corrections are still open for at least 1 month after the June 30th submission deadline. If you’re considering making a post-deadline correction, we recommend contacting the Financial Aid Office first.
If you don’t think you will receive anything because your SAI would be too high, we still recommend doing the FAFSA. This is because the FAFSA is quite easy to complete, it helps our office with recordkeeping, and it automatically applies you for many types of financial aid—even some you may not be aware you’re eligible for. For example, some students are not aware that the Solano Promise is not a need-based financial aid program and therefore can be awarded to eligible students regardless of how high their SAI is. If they had submitted a FAFSA, they would have been automatically awarded the Solano Promise and had their tuition and fees waived.
However, if you still do not want to do the FAFSA, we do have a separate application for the CCPG that you can fill out.
If you are not eligible to fill out a FAFSA because you are not a citizen or eligible noncitizen, you may still be eligible to fill out the CADAA.