"Following the rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2024-2025 academic school year, many students felt frustrated as the form came with many glitches and issues. One group that experienced longer application delays were students whose parents don’t have a social security number," KLTV reports.

... "Nalia Medina is the assistant director of government relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. The association works closely with financial aid administrators across the U.S. in order to increase student access and success in higher education. She shared her perspective on the problems with this year’s form, explaining how they have forced students to make hard financial decisions about the future."

"'Many students in this demographic, and students more broadly, were left to make their decisions without having a full picture of how much it was going to cost them this year,' Medina said."

"She said these problems could lead to students having to pull more out-of-pocket money for college this academic school year. She also believes many may have decided to take a gap year altogether because of the delays."

"'I think it’s also possible that a significant number of students, again in this demographic and more broadly, will not attend this upcoming school year because they just didn’t have enough time to make their decision, or they were waiting too long to receive all of their aid offers,' Medina said."

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Publication Date: 9/2/2024