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If You Aren’t Growing Applications, You’re Losing Enrollment

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Blogs If You Aren’t Growing Applications, You’re Losing Enrollment New evidence regarding connections between application volume and downstream enrollment outcomes Many colleges have seen an increase in applications in recent years, even as the number of college-bound students has decreased.

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Heads up, the T(r)ails of Verification (part 2)

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” If two parents file as married on the FAFSA as their marital status and then provide separate tax returns with one or both filing as Head of Household, this is usually a problem. NCAN (the National College Attainment Network) in 2017 published a study of the leaky FAFSA pipeline. What stories have you experienced?

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Find the Colleges That Give the Most Merit Aid

College Planners of America

There are two reasons why this has become routine at mid-tier schools as a way to attract and enroll high-achieving applicants: Colleges need to enroll high-achieving students each year to maintain their academic reputation, and. A Common Problem of Applicants. Can Juniors Use It?

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Are you prepared for what’s next in the enrollment landscape?

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One reason is that the recent rebound comes in the context of a longer-term decline; from 2017 to 2022, four-year public institutions saw a 2.9% Also troubling is the much larger shortfall seen at two-year institutions, whose freshman enrollment dropped 22% between 2017 and 2022. That said, few admissions teams are resting easy.

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Report: Students Leave $3.6 Billion on the Table in Unclaimed Pell Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The NCAN started with the number of high school graduates who did not fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which was roughly 1.65 There are plenty of reasons why students who might be eligible for Pell Grants might not complete the FAFSA. billion total. For one thing, it’s complex.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds Senators Susan Collins, Jon Tester, Shelley Moore Capito, and Tammy Baldwin for Reintroducing Bill to Strengthen the Federal TRIO Programs

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Furthermore, it aims to prevent a similar situation in 2017 when the U.S. Department of Education rejected many applications based solely on minor formatting issues. Its application was rejected because it used one-and-a-half spacing instead of double spacing in the text within graphics on two of its 65 application pages.