After delays and technical glitches regarding FAFSA, many Texas students are unsure whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend college in the...
After delays and technical glitches, many students are unsure whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend college in the fall.The Mesquite resident dreams of working for the human trafficking division of the FBI. She realized her passion for helping victims after shadowing detectives from the Mesquite Police Department in high school.The 19-year-old found mentorship through an A&M adviser who connected her with former FBI agents. Aranda received a paid trip to Washington, D.C.
Based on the delays, colleges are pushing back their own deadlines for when they must receive students’ information in order to decide financial aid for them. Many, such as A&M, have pushed it back to April 15. Others, including the University of Texas at Dallas, extended their deadlines to May 1.
The financial aid application hadn’t been updated since President Ronald Reagan’s administration. It had more than 100 questions about students’ and parents’ finances.The federal government promised a new and better FAFSA would roll out this year. The streamlined form could be answered in as few as 18 questions, U.S. Department of Education officials said as the rollout began.
“The kids who need this the most — the first-gen, low-income kids — are the ones who are really going to, unfortunately, be harmed the most by this,” Hooper said. Because colleges and universities have not received student information, schools must wait on awarding financial aid, which then further delays decisions.
“If I don’t receive any financial aid from UT or the government, I will most likely not be able to go to UT because my grandparents together make under $58,000 a year,” Moreno said.Students particularly impacted by the changes are those who are U.S. citizens but whose parents or guardians are undocumented immigrants. In previous years, the system allowed students to submit the form without adding a Social Security number.
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