Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 2, 2023
When the FAFSA Simplification Act begins to take effect this July, it’s expected to significantly affect the process of applying for financial aid, making the paperwork less complex and altering the formula for eligibility. However, there has been scant information on the specific impacts at a national level.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 11, 2023
DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. DFC’s average out-of-pocket cost for students who didn’t file a FAFSA was just over $4,500. “If Thomas in Minnesota, where almost all the students are minoritized and nearly three-quarters are first-generation, has managed to buck this trend.
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Moneyman
JUNE 2, 2020
” 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. Here are the trials of verification.
EAB
MAY 23, 2023
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.
EAB
JULY 20, 2023
Overall, the results show that schools whose enrollment grew between fall 2017 and fall 2021 also grew their application volume—and the more applications grew, the more enrollment grew. There are still downsides for selective schools, though, with some losing upwards of 19% of their enrollment from 2017 to 2021.
College Planners of America
DECEMBER 8, 2022
They provide a summary of their financial circumstances in the form of the Student Aid Index (formerly known as the Expected Family Contribution) that was determined through the FAFSA process. This is the amount that a family is expected to pay annually toward their child’s college education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2023
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 left behind represents a strong increase from 2017, when $2.3
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