College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the means by which students obtain their fair share of the billions of dollars in Federal, state, and college financial aid to help defray the cost of college. The problems affecting the current admissions cycle began when the 2024-25 FAFSA was late.

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College Planners of America

MAY 21, 2024

What They Are and How They Work The interest rate for PPL’s for the 2024-25 academic year is 9.05%. The FAFSA becomes available online on October 1 every year (It was delayed for the 2024-25 school year only). The PPL application form is online at StudentAid.gov. Parents apply for PPL’s separately from this process.

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College Planners of America

MAY 21, 2024

What They Are and How They Work The interest rate for PPL’s for the 2024-25 academic year is 9.05%. The FAFSA becomes available online on October 1 every year (It was delayed for the 2024-25 school year only). The PPL application form is online at StudentAid.gov. Parents apply for PPL’s separately from this process.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

News 2024 rankings for Best Value Schools are based on the four metrics below: 1. News 2024 Best Colleges rankings) relative to the average discounted tuition paid by 2022-23 full-time undergraduates after receiving need-based scholarships and grants. Economic Mobility Index Measure of economic status change for low-income students.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

News 2024 rankings for Best Value Schools are based on the four metrics below: 1. News 2024 Best Colleges rankings) relative to the average discounted tuition paid by 2022-23 full-time undergraduates after receiving need-based scholarships and grants. Economic Mobility Index Measure of economic status change for low-income students.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs What enrollment leaders need to know about the upcoming FAFSA changes Updated April 2023 As most of us in enrollment know, the FAFSA is set to substantially change for the 2024-2025 academic year. The FAFSA will be considerably shorter and rely almost exclusively on information from a family’s recent tax return, if applicable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Over the last three years, Black law school applicants have made up roughly 7.8% of all applicants, and, according to the American Bar Association, Black lawyers only make up 5% of all practitioners. Latinx law school applicants made up 9.4% of applicants in 2023, and only 5% of all lawyers in the country. population.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

But if you come together and say, ‘This is a community college project,’ and half of the community colleges in the state are all doing one application, you're more likely to find success. When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg.

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Scholarship America

APRIL 3, 2023

While the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) typically opens for applications on October 1, the application for the 2024-25 school year has been delayed until sometime in December—a delay that could have ripple effects on students, families and scholarship programs.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

We also learned that students of color and low-income students are more likely to face insecurities and again, students with dependent children, and it just makes them harder to support their families and just improve the prospects for the future. So that story will be told in spring 2024.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

However, ED requested that implementation be delayed to 2023-24 and, after a period of time, they requested that it be delayed again to 2024-25. The FAFSA for the 2024-25 admission cycle is now scheduled to open in December 2023. Without award letters, students don’t have the information they need to make enrollment decisions.

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COE

MAY 31, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Receives a Major Grant to Extend Opportunities to First-Generation and Low-Income Recent College Graduates Nationwide May 31, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm The gift will support first-generation and low-income college graduates of a Federal TRIO program who apply for the Thomas R.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Department of Education rejected many applications based solely on minor formatting issues. Its application was rejected because it used one-and-a-half spacing instead of double spacing in the text within graphics on two of its 65 application pages. Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI).

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

October to December 2023 On October 1, 2023, Kimberly Jones assumed the presidency of the Council for Opportunity in Education.

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College Planners of America

JANUARY 31, 2024

This announcement was a huge disappointment for people looking forward to the accurate and timely disbursement of the $7 billion in Federal student aid for the 2024-25 academic year. Yet the form for 2024-25 is not yet available in February 2024. “, a spokesperson told NPR.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Robert Kelchen, professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the administration will likely reintroduce the rule in 2024 using a negotiated rulemaking process. Dr. Valerie Kinloch Free speech will be a hot button topic in 2024. What is learning now?

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Because students are motivated to submit the form soon after it becomes available, the majority of completed FAFSA’s are submitted and processed in October and November, so colleges have ISIR’s for many students even before they receive applications from them.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Because students are motivated to submit the form soon after it becomes available, the majority of completed FAFSA’s are submitted and processed in October and November, so colleges have ISIR’s for many students even before they receive applications from them.

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