The 2025-26 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), won't be available until December 1, 2024. Here are some steps you can take now to get yourself prepared for the experience. …
Reported items include income found on the federal tax return, savings and checking accounts, investments, real estate outside of your primary home, child support received, and more. …
Learn about the difference between need-based aid and merit-based aid is, what exactly need-based aid, as well as what financial need is. Also, learn how colleges decide need-based aid, and what that means about need-based aid.…
Hear Communications Associate Shaun Connolly share his experience helping high school seniors in Worcester, MA with their FAFSA, how he used to work in high schools, and how now that he is back how rewarding it is to work with this population again.…
We break down what the change exactly is, why it happened, how financial aid is affected, what colleges are doing in reaction to it, and what you can do about it.…
Items of note include the soft launch period has ended, most applicants will skip the income questions, those who filed taxes jointly will still need to list the spouse's name and SSN, FSA has a webpage of guidance, and more…
Items of note include a notification of the initial soft launch period, which included periods of downtime, that colleges will not get FAFSA data until early to mid-March, and a reminder that almost every contributor on the FAFSA will need an FSA ID.…
