CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, with the release of the 2024-2025 FAFSA, families, students, and financial aid offices alike are hopeful that the once complicated application will be easier to complete and process. Pell Grants: More students will be eligible to receive maximum or partial federal Pell grants.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How the FAFSA is Making Financial Aid More Accessible to Families Nationwide In the last year and a half, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid – or FAFSA – has undergone major changes to make the application easier to complete for students nationwide. Who should file the FAFSA? How do I prepare for the FAFSA?

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College Planners of America

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Debt relief will be granted to 43 million borrowers, eliminating the entire remaining balance for 20 million of them. This post covers the recently announced availability of the application that borrowers use to obtain loan forgiveness. The Official Release of the Application. The Application Form. Pending Legal Issues.

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College Aid Services

APRIL 12, 2024

FSA outlines when verification status codes (“W,” “V,” or “S”) are applicable. The electronic announcement below provides important reminders about how institutions should process students who are selected for verification. Read the full announcement below.

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COE

APRIL 12, 2023

In late 2020, the federal government passed sweeping changes to the Federal Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to simplify the application process. These changes  were intended to increase the number of students applying for aid and reduce the number of incomplete applications.  

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), community college students should automatically qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). We need to double what we offer for Pell Grants. What we currently offer students is simply not enough for our students.

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Scholarship America

APRIL 3, 2023

While the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) typically opens for applications on October 1, the application for the 2024-25 school year has been delayed until sometime in December—a delay that could have ripple effects on students, families and scholarship programs. How will applicants be impacted?

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College Aid Services

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Department of Education (Department) today released new state-by-state data and details showing that the simplified, streamlined, and redesigned 2024–25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form will help 610,000 new students from low-income backgrounds receive Federal Pell Grants. For more information, click here.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MAY 6, 2024

As the gateway to federal financial aid for college, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a crucial step for students and their families in securing funding for higher education. The FAFSA serves as the primary application for federal student aid programs, including grants, loans, and work-study opportunities.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Submission of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an essential step for all students seeking Federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid. Even so, the ED announced in June 2021 that the most of the Act’s provisions would not be implemented until the release of the FAFSA in 2023 for the 2024-25 academic year.

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College Planners of America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These changes significantly impact the Net Price of College (NPC), which is a college’s Cost of Attendance less the average amount of free financial aid such as scholarships and grants given to admittees. Increasing the Amounts and Income Threshold for Pell Grants The Maximum Pell Grant award is increased to $7,395 for 2024-25.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Howard was the unanimous choice out of the four applicants, all of which were strong, according to the Air Force, which is funding the UARC. Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5 The Department of Defense had announced a plan to create a UARC affiliated with an HBCU last June.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Perhaps one of the biggest pros of the SAI is that more students will be able to receive access to Pell Grants. Access to Pell Grants is typically based on family size and the federal poverty line. Starting this year, applicants who don’t qualify for a max Pell Grant if their SAI is less than the maximum grant amount.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2024

This post focuses at a micro level on the impact of the failed rollout on individual students participating in the 2024-25 financial aid cycle. One affected applicants with no Social Security Number (SSN) for themselves or a parent. This glitch caused their FAFSA’s to be rejected by the ED. Department of Education.”

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

billion in Pell Grant funds on the table , along with millions of dollars in SNAP benefits, private scholarships and other forms of college financial aid. Despite this fact, nearly half of graduating high school seniors never complete this vital application. In recent years, applications have opened on October 1. More than 3.2

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College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the means by which students obtain their fair share of the billions of dollars in Federal, state, and college financial aid to help defray the cost of college. The problems affecting the current admissions cycle began when the 2024-25 FAFSA was late.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

It had never been applied to a class as broad as those would have been forgiven under the first plan, which attempted to cancel $10,000 of debt for those who earn under $125,000 and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. Another reason may be that using the HEA is a lot slower. It’s not going to be a quick process,” said Natow.

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Scholarship America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Now is the perfect time to start making your plans, researching the scholarships you want to apply for and brushing up on the do’s and don’ts of scholarship applications. or Canada and be enrolled or planning to enroll at any qualifying institution of the recipient’s choice for the 2024-2025 academic year. GPA (on a 4.0

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Student Loan Hero

DECEMBER 1, 2022

1: Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens. Mid-December: Decisions arrive for early action and early decision applicants. March – April: Decisions arrive for regular decision applicants. June 30, 2024. This free application opens every year on Oct. 1, 2022 for the 2023-2024 academic year.

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Student Loan Hero

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) opens on Oct. This application becomes available on Oct. June 30, 2024. Since the Department of Education offers the FAFSA funding, it also sets a deadline for the application. It remains open until June 30, 2024. 1 every year. 1 as possible. 1 every year.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

News 2024 rankings for Best Value Schools are based on the four metrics below: 1. News 2024 Best Colleges rankings) relative to the average discounted tuition paid by 2022-23 full-time undergraduates after receiving need-based scholarships and grants. Academic quality (overall score in the U.S. Weight = 50%. Weight = 20% 3.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This has been the biggest update in 40 years for the FAFSA and we’re all ready to see what the new application looks like. Here’s what we do know about the updated FAFSA and your student’s college financial aid process so far: Applicants will be able to pull data from their tax returns. Are there any format updates to the FAFSA?

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

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. Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI).

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The College Board’s College Scholarship Service (CSS) isn’t free, but submitting a CSS Profile application form is an inexpensive way to apply for aid from the institutions that participate in the service. The Profile enables an applicant to be considered for a college’s scholarships, stipends, grants, and loans.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Then the Department computes how much Federal aid a student is eligible to receive through loans, grants, and the work-study program and transmits this information, normally within two weeks of FAFSA submission, to student-designated colleges by means of an Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR).

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

But I wondered: how much will the GMAT Focus Edition impact the applicant landscape and graduate lead generation efforts? Despite these changes, taking the GRE instead or skipping an entrance test altogether are still appealing options to graduate business applicants. Visit eab.com/cappex-grad to learn more.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

However, ED requested that implementation be delayed to 2023-24 and, after a period of time, they requested that it be delayed again to 2024-25. The FAFSA for the 2024-25 admission cycle is now scheduled to open in December 2023. This has now been compounded by further harm in a two-month delay in the 2023 FAFSA. Today, the U.S.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

October to December 2023 On October 1, 2023, Kimberly Jones assumed the presidency of the Council for Opportunity in Education. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

Empowering Excellence: A TRIO Program’s Journey to Streamlined Success with empower January 7, 2024 — by Terrance L. Initially, we dealt with paper applications, which could be tricky due to errors and missing information. empower showcased the application online, highlighting mandatory fields and allowing document uploads.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Unleashing the Power of empower at Southeastern Louisiana University February 7, 2024 — by Ron Abel Explore how Southeastern Louisiana University’s Upward Bound programs evolved with empower , seamlessly integrating to streamline operations and empower staff. The time to prepare for your annual performance report is now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. In addition, new routine program reviews are being suspended through June 2024, except for issues of suspected fraud or severe breach of fiduciary duty. On Monday, the U.S. Since the form became available on Dec.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The first digital SAT, set for March of 2024, will be taken by current 10 th graders as well as students in lower grades who wish to take it. The timer, for example, will be extended for those students who have been granted extended time and a screen will indicate if an extra break is scheduled. Practice Digital Tests.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

billion on the table last year in the form of unclaimed Pell Grant funds—around 14% of annual Pell expenditures. 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 billion total. For one thing, it’s complex. This year’s $3.58

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs What enrollment leaders need to know about the upcoming FAFSA changes Updated April 2023 As most of us in enrollment know, the FAFSA is set to substantially change for the 2024-2025 academic year. The FAFSA will be considerably shorter and rely almost exclusively on information from a family’s recent tax return, if applicable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The guidance also suggested that schools could help to expand the pipeline of diverse applicants through outreach, recruitment, and pathway programs in partnership with local schools or organizations, which can use race as a factor as long as they aren’t providing an admissions preference.

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