"Enrolling in college has been especially fraught this year, and financial aid experts are raising new concerns about the unforgiving timeline students could face if they rely on federal dollars to attend school this summer," USA Today reports.

... "It’s unclear to experts precisely how many colleges are working on a tighter timetable for summer financial aid this year. Thankfully, the majority of schools award their summer aid based on the prior year’s FAFSA, according to Jill Desjean, a senior policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."

... "Students with special financial circumstances could be most at risk of having to forgo school this summer, Desjean said. That’s because colleges still don’t have the ability to appeal the government’s financial aid calculations – a decision schools make in unusual circumstances, such as when a student is facing a major medical condition."

... "Later this summer, schools will have to compare the amount of money they already started giving students with the government's official numbers."

"'Hopefully, they are the same,' Desjean said."

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Publication Date: 5/28/2024