Financial Aid Start Your Season
You may want to share these instructions with your families to assist them in completing the Clarity Financial Aid application.
Go to **https://app.clarityapp.com/sign-up.**
Begin your application and add <school name> to your student applicant entry. You can save your application and log out at any time and return later to complete it.
Enter your financial information, review your application, and pay the $65 Clarity application fee.
US taxpayers: Complete the Clarity Enhanced Tax Verification (ETV) process to release your W2 and personal tax return transcripts from the IRS. You'll be asked to authorize the sharing of your tax transcripts and verify your identity. This is a one-time security measure required by the IRS to protect against identity theft and the compromise of personal information. Only those filing US taxes will be prompted to complete this step. Clarity offers two options for the enhanced tax verification process: “Clarity” and “IRS”. Please reference the Tax Verification Guide to preview the steps of this process.
{Optional text - The IRS pathway is significantly faster, allowing for the tax documents to transfer to Clarity within 24 hours. For this reason, any applicant who applies after [date], will need to select the IRS pathway in order to meet our priority deadline. Clarity has found that families who have an IRS.gov account before starting the Clarity Application have a much easier time completing the process.}
Submit your Clarity application and follow the link to return to your dashboard. Here you will see any additional supporting documents requested by schools. Upload your supporting documents by (deadline). Keep in mind that at a later date, you may be prompted by the school via Clarity to upload additional documentation as needed.
{Optional text: International families will be prompted to upload income verification in the forms of a paystub or employment letter stating salary, and a copy of a tax documents from their country, as applicable. Please provide these with English translation.}