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Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2024
To meet the demands of its current and future workforce, Colorado needs to increase postsecondary attainment. To do this, we must help more students find affordable pathways to postsecondary education so they have the confidence to enroll. One way to increase enrollment in higher education, particularly for low- and middle-income students, is to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Lowry, Danielle – National College Access Network, 2018
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important application that prospective college students must complete to qualify for state and federal aid. This report describes how school district FAFSA completion rates are related to district-level poverty rates across and within states. Given that students from low-income backgrounds…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Poverty, College Bound Students
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Ifill, Nicole; Velez, Erin Dunlop – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This report is based on data from four iterations of the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), a large, nationally representative sample survey of students that focuses on how they finance their education. NPSAS includes data on federal Pell Grant awards, which are need-based grants awarded to low-income students, primarily…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Eligibility
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Dynarski, Mark; Rui,Ning; Webber, Ann; Gutmann, Babette – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2018
The District of Columbia (DC) Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) was created by Congress in 2004 to provide tuition vouchers to low-income DC parents who want their child to attend a private school. Reauthorized in 2011 by the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act, the program places a priority on serving students leaving…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Scholarships, Educational Vouchers, Low Income Students
Ashby, Cornelia M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2004
This study investigated: (1) differences between the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) consolidation loans and borrowers; (2) the extent to which borrowers with student loans under one program obtain consolidation loans under the other; and (3) how FFELP and FDLP borrower and loan…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Federal Programs, Costs
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
The nature and extent of corrections made to their records by zero/low income applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was investigated. Behaviors of zero/low income applicants and the total pool of applicants were also compared. It was found that zero/low income applicants and all applicants who were rejected displayed…
Descriptors: College Students, Disclosure, Economically Disadvantaged, Eligibility
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1979
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program for 1976-1977 were compared to 1975 tax forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Comparisons were also made to data from a similar 1974-1975 study. Based on a sample of 212,263 applicants, findings include the following: during 1976-1977, 70.7 percent of all…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents, Disclosure
Applied Management Sciences, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1982
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program for 1979-1980 were compared to 1978 tax forms filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Comparisons were also made to data from similar 1974-1975 and 1976-1977 studies. Based on a sample of 407,596 applicants, findings include the following: between 1976-1977 and…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents, Disclosure
Wagenaar, Theodore C. – 1987
Information on college applications, acceptances, financial aid, and attendance is presented based on base-year and first follow-up data for the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond Study of the Federal Center for Education Statistics. The focus is on changes that occurred between 1972 and 1980 in the two senior cohorts. Many…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Attendance, College Choice, Financial Aid Applicants
Vogel, Ronald J. – 1977
A study was conducted in 1976 of applicants who submitted corrections or amendments to their Student Eligibility Reports (SERs) for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Program. The objective was to review the applications corrections process and to determine factors linked to applicants' use of correction procedures. Attention was…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Walters, Pamela Barnhouse; And Others – 1978
The validity of information provided in applications to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was studied, along with procedures used in recovering overpayments. The objective was to investigate misreporting and misuse of the BEOG program. A 1977-1978 study reviewed cases referred to the U.S. Office of Education by educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Novalis, Carol – 1977
The use of estimated income to analyze financial need of applicants to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program was investigated. Attention was focused on: how well applicants estimate their income; reasons for errors in estimation, and whether applicants supplying income tax returns supply true versions. For 1,547 eligible BEOG…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Kuchak, JoAnn – 1976
Application forms for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Program for 1974-1975 were compared to Internal Revenue Service (IRA) tax forms to determine the scope of applicants' misreporting and to identify categories of applicants who tend to misreport. A total of 70,063 tax forms and BEOG records from eligible and ineligible applicants…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dependents
Vogel, Ronald J.; And Others – 1977
The types and ranges of errors made on applications to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program were studied, along with procedures used in recovering overpayments. The objective was to assess the scope and nature of misreporting and misuse of the BEOG program. A 1975-1976 study reviewed cases referred to the U.S. Office of Education…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
Vogel, Ronald J. – 1977
Errors made on applications to the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program were studied to determine the scope and nature of misreporting and misuse of the BEOG program. Characteristics of applicants who misreport personal and/or family financial circumstances were identified, and procedures were established to regularly screen and…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Disclosure, Eligibility
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