Oly 30 percent of the high school Class of 2024 has completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to Education Department data. It’s been three months since Sami Saeed filled out a federal financial aid application. And for three months, the senior at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Md., has waited toit was automatically submitted without his signature.
Financial aid can make or break college enrollment for millions of students. And in the shadow of the Supreme Court’s About 65 percent of schools with a majority of Black and Hispanic students have seen completed FAFSA applications drop by over 36 percent, according to an analysis of federal data for more than 17,000 public high schools that submitted five or more FAFSA applications.In the Washington region, completions among high school seniors are down 35 percent from the previous year in Maryland, about 33 percent in the District and almost 30 percent in Virginia.
The department said it has processed more than 800,000 corrections since making the function available in April. In another glitch, undocumented parents are still unable to pull in tax data from the IRS and must manually enter the information, which increases the chance of mistakes. They’ve also had trouble correcting tax data entered manually. The Education Department“It’s all so demoralizing,” said Judith “Tessie” Wilson, chair of College Access Fairfax. “Some of these, immigrant families who have come here, came here for this express reason to get their kids to have a better education.
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