UAF responds to FAFSA setbacks

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - After major changes were made to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as the FAFSA , significant issues have developed leaving many students and families ”rightfully” concerned about how to pay for college.

Munro said there have been “hiccups” since those changes were implemented. Rather big ones at that. About 30% of all applications filed for he 2024-2025 school year are inaccurate or incomplete. In addition to that, the U.S. Dept. of Education “is about seven months behind in processing,” Munro said.

Communications between the U.S. Dept. of Education and UAF, as well as other schools, suggests that the issues stem from the company contracted to process the applications. That doesn’t include those incomplete or inaccurate applications however. Those will still need to be addressed before offers can be made to those students. Munro said that UAF will be able toOf the estimated 450,000 scholarships available at UAF, most of them are not impacted by the issue. Those unaffected scholarships have been, or are being awarded already. The needs based scholarships have faced setbacks, however. Those scholarships are normally determined by FAFSA applications.

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