Some students could receive award letters as soon as this week.
Success Coach Latasha Wiley, left, helps first-year student Amare Porter, right, with her class schedule at Chattahoochee Valley Community College's advising center on Feb. 23, 2023, in Phenix City, Alabama. Rebecca Griesbach / AL.comAlabama community and technical college students who completed federal financial aid forms will start to receive notice of their award packages this week, officials said Tuesday.
In its latest update on June 8, the U.S. Department of Education said application rates were down by about 10% nationwide compared to last year. Officials were still working with schools at the time to reprocess applications that had errors. Alabama requires high school students to fill out the FAFSA in order to graduate, but more families opted to request waivers this year. As of Tuesday, just 52% of Alabama high school seniors completed the FAFSA – down from 64% last year.
The Alabama Community College System’s Reporting and Enterprise Application Support team assembled each of the 24 colleges’ financial aid packages, allowing local financial aid offices more time to serve students and host community outreach, according to Tuesday’s announcement from the system about coming aid packages.
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