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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
Warick, Carrie – National College Access Network, 2018
Each year, there are millions of students nationwide who are selected for this audit-like process after completing their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). In fact, over half of Pell Grant-eligible FAFSA applicants were selected for verification for the 2016-17 FAFSA filing cycle. That's over 5.4 million students who spent hours…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Audits (Verification), Financial Aid Applicants
Page, Lindsay C.; Lowry, Danielle; Nurshatayeva, Aizat – National College Access Network, 2017
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is an important application that prospective college students must complete to qualify for state and federal financial aid. In this report, the authors describe how school district FAFSA completion rates are related to district-level poverty rates across and within states. Given that students…
Descriptors: School Districts, Poverty, Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid
Selingo, Jeffrey J. – National College Access Network, 2017
Despite the changing demographics of high-school graduates with an ever increasing number of low-income and first-generation students in the pipeline to higher education, the college admissions process has, for the most part, remained stuck in a previous era--when far fewer Americans went to college and the price of a degree was much less…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Federal Aid, Public Policy
Cook, Kim; Morgan, Elizabeth; Ciaramella, Allie; Keller, MorraLee; Kantrowitz, Mark; Jones, Kamaya; Schlaikjer, Erica; Ahearn, Megan – National College Access Network, 2016
Previous research has demonstrated that most low-income students who do not apply for aid--despite a large percentage of these students being eligible to receive aid--believe that they are ineligible. According to the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS) where students were given a choice of five reasons why they did not apply…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Eligibility