In this episode, we talk about what current, past and future students need to know about paying for college.
Students seeking state financial aid now have an extra month to beat a California deadline — after lawmakers fast-tracked their response to a federal glitch that blocked thousands of current and aspiring undergraduateslast Thursday — just before the Legislature began a weeklong recess.
Cervantes wrote the bill after a technology mishap prevented U.S. citizens from completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid because their parents don’t have a Social Security number. It’s a problem that emerged this year with a revised application and has generated a high degree of worry among the higher education financial aid officers in California and nationally.
Estimates show that the number of California high school seniors submitting the FAFSA is well below levels compared to this point in time last year — a decline of 43% as of March 8,was created to reduce the time it took students to apply for aid by cutting down on the number of questions. Another change allowed for more students to , the country’s marquee financial aid tool for low-income families.
Cal Poly Pomona, a Cal State, usually receives 43,000 student financial aid records from the federal government at this point in the process — but received “barely 20% of the records we would normally have,” said Jeanette Phillips, executive director of financial aid at the campus.
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