Because a disproportionate number of them need federal money to pay for college, Black students might opt out of higher education.
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First, the long-anticipated rollout of the redesigned online application was delayed for three months because it just wasn’t ready. Then, when it finally did appear, a variety of bugs and glitches, including some that could reduce the amount of federal tuition aid, kept students and their families from completing it.
“Because Black students are disproportionately FAFSA filers, this has a huge impact on their ability to make a decision about both where, and if, they go to college,” says Bryan Cook, director of higher education policy at the Urban Institute Center on Education Data and Policy. Instead of the FAFSA application being open Oct. 1, enough time for students and colleges to prepare for the fall 2024 semester, the form didn’t launch until Dec. 31, setting off a scramble. The subsequent series of errors and submission problems didn’t help; at last count, only around 20% of applications have been processed, resulting in a nationwide backlog of some 6 million applications. it overlooked could end up costing students almost $2 billion in aid.
National Center for Education Statistics at IES Data Point. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 2013 Update, Postsecondary Education Transcript Study, and Student Financial Aid Records.
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