"Following a rocky rollout of this year’s FAFSA, roughly 5.7 million students applied for aid nationwide — compared to the average of 17 million applicants, The Hill reported," EdSource writes.

... "'Because the FAFSA became available so much later than it did in a normal year and there were so many glitches at the beginning of the process that needed to be resolved, some of those folks who would normally file a FAFSA earlier in the process may have decided to set it aside temporarily to wait for all of those things to be resolved and worked out before they come back to complete it,' Karen McCarthy, vice president for public policy and federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, told the Hill."

"She also expressed doubt that the number of applicants will grow and make up for the lags."

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Publication Date: 3/18/2024