Tip of the Week Updating interest rates New student loan borrowers will be facing higher interest rates starting July 1. To help students know the upcoming July 1 interest rates, Mapping Your Future staff recently updated several references to interest rates. The new rates were announced in a May 14 Electronic Announcement. Updates were completed on […]
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Higher Ed News Vol. 16 – Issue 10 Brookings article recommends actions to minimize postsecondary enrollment declines caused by FAFSA problems Many have predicted the problems with the 2024-25 FAFSA will have an impact on college enrollment this fall. Accessing the 2024-25 FAFSA may be easier now for those without a Social Security number The
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Tip of the Week A good life One of the last times I was with my mother, I took her to the family farm. It was a beautiful fall day, and we knew that this trip to the farm might be her last. As we headed back to the city, nature treated us to a
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Tip of the Week No easy decisions And that commitment – both from students and from financial aid professionals – should not be taken lightly. When we see darkly – when we don’t have enough information – making a decision is difficult. That’s not only true for students today on college decision day but also
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Early Awareness E-News May 2024Vol. 16 – Issue 5 Resources to help with FAFSA corrections This week, the Department of Education is emailing students and contributors who still need to make a correction to a 2024-25 FAFSA form, as well as to those who started a form, but did not yet submit it. Accessing the
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Higher Ed News Vol. 16 – Issue 9 Exit counseling resources available This spring is likely even busier in your office than “normal.” Brief outage planned on StudentAid.gov website this weekend The outage hopefully won’t impact too many students trying to complete the FAFSA, but the Department of Education is planning an outage for the
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Tip of the Week Missing the trees for the forest The very air we breathe is their gift to us. Trees produce half of the oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere, meaning we wouldn’t be able to live without them. And yet, while being an oxygen-giving plant is pretty important – there’s so much more we
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Encouraging FAFSA completion The 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) season has been a complicated one, but there is still time for students to complete the FAFSA. As of April 5, approximately 28 percent of the high school class of 2024 have completed a FAFSA. To promote FAFSA completion, the Biden-Harris Administration is
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Vol. 16 – Issue 8 Push to increase FAFSA completion before graduation For high school seniors, the next few weeks will be critical to getting their FAFSA completed. 2024-25 FAFSA presentations scheduled Share information with your students and parents about the April 16 and April 19 presentations. “4 reasons why you need to complete the
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April 2024Vol. 16 – Special Issue Push to increase FAFSA completion before graduation For high school seniors, the next few weeks will be critical to getting their FAFSA completed. 2024-25 FAFSA presentations scheduled Share information with next week’s April 16 and April 19 Zoom meetings to help them with the 2024-25 FAFSA. “4 reasons why
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