"Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza worked as a peer adviser while he was a student at the University of California at Davis, so he was familiar with guiding low-income students through the financial-aid process. Even so, he didn’t know until he was close to graduation himself that financial-aid decisions could be appealed," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

"Financial-aid officers are seeing an increase in appeals from students. An October survey by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators shows that 59 percent of respondents reported a 'somewhat or great' increase in professional-judgement requests from March to mid-September compared with the same period the year before."

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Publication Date: 12/7/2020