"The share of high school seniors who have submitted a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, is down significantly this year, raising concerns that some low-income students won’t be able to afford to enroll this fall," CNN reports.

..."Further problems on the backend and a last-minute change to the aid calculation meant that colleges did not receive any FAFSA information until March, even if a student submitted the form back in January. Once colleges received the data from the Department of Education, there were errors with some of the information, and many must be reprocessed.

As of last week, about 40% of the forms colleges had in hand were unusable, according to Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

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Publication Date: 4/20/2024