Alaska has the nation’s lowest percentage of high school seniors who’ve submitted the FAFSA so far.
to get FAFSA data from the federal government, which means prospective students are waiting on financial aid offers.
“Typically, everyone kind of knows where they’re going by May 1,” Dean said. “But this year, we’ll see.” Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé college and career advisor Jessica Dean greets students and parents at a FAFSA event on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. and the need-based Alaska Education Grant, which both help students pay for in-state university tuition and some career and technical education programs.“People perceive the FAFSA as a very complicated, time-consuming form that they have to fill out,” Efird said.
High school seniors in Alaska might also see other jobs – like construction or commercial fishing – as more lucrative or accessible than college right after high school.“Students with parents who went to college are themselves more likely to go to college,” DeBaun said. “You have a lot of first generation students in Alaska whose families either have not needed to attend college professionally, or who have not had the opportunity to do so, or both.
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