"Syedah Ali, a Valley Stream South High School senior, curtly summed up what it was like applying to this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid program, better known as FAFSA," LI Herald reports.

..."Colleges and universities, in response to the roster of unsent financial award letters, have pushed back their normal May 1 decision deadline for applicants to commit. As of last Friday, Ali, whose FAFSA assistance was delayed, said she was still weighing her options between Boston University and Stony Brook.

'Clearly, we have had a difficult processing year,' said Dana Kelly, vice president of professional development and institutional compliance for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. 'Right now, the application is stable and most people can go in and complete the form online.'

But there are still kinks left to straighten out, noted Kelly. Students, for instance, who have one parent with U.S. citizenship status and the other without, “cannot complete the form outside of filling the paper FAFSA.”

'FAFSA paper forms aren’t going to be processed until sometime later this month and we don’t have a date yet as to when those actually will begin,' she said."

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Publication Date: 6/7/2024