HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR IN YOUR FAMILY. IT’S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA FOR STUDENTS TO FILL OUT THE FAFSA FORM. IT’S ALSO A STATE LAW. NEW HAMPSHIRE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Farrington writes about higher education and student loans. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is usually the ...

For 15 years, Nicole Hurd led the College Advising Corps, a national college-access organization that works with low-income and first-generation students. During that time she regularly surveyed the ...

State Aid and Outside Aid Sources may have their own deadlines that vary. I appreciate the RIT Financial Aid Office because of the consistency in service they provide. As a high school student before ...

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At first, parents who don’t have Social Security numbers had problems starting a form for a student or contributing to one their child already started – even though they should be allowed to create an ...

WASHINGTON — Jayna Gilman, a University of Iowa first-year student studying human anatomy and physiology, is just one of millions of students nationwide who are unsure how much they may be expected to ...

The U.S. Department of Education named the first six organizations to participate in the phased rollout of the 2025-26 form to apply for federal financial aid Wednesday, and opened up the interest ...

A long-awaited, supposedly user-friendly version of the college financial aid form known as the FAFSA will be unveiled for the 2024-25 school year. The new form aims to simplify the process of ...

Beware of fraudsters and thieves. Don’t give money to the wrong people. All that’s good advice for any business, and colleges are no exception. Institutions with precious resources must carefully ...

So a handful of them across the country have launched their own financial aid forms. While these forms don't replace the 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, schools can use ...

After a two-month delay, the U.S. Education Department began sending FAFSA forms to colleges last week. College officials are eager to get to work, but slow pace and technical holdups threaten further ...