Comments on: How To Fill Out The FAFSA And Why It Matters https://thecollegeinvestor.com/21109/how-to-fill-out-a-fafsa-and-why-it-matters/ Student Loans, Investing, Building Wealth Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Goldman https://thecollegeinvestor.com/21109/how-to-fill-out-a-fafsa-and-why-it-matters/#comment-478756 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:51:22 +0000 https://thecollegeinvestor.com/?p=21109#comment-478756 We should be doing everything we can to do encourage students to fill out the FAFSA! I often volunteer to work with lower-income and lower-middle-income families and single-parent households to help them fill it out. Some of these kids would probably never have gone to college without it. Many of them don’t realize that many private schools will provide more aid than public schools, but either way, without filling out the FAFSA, they will never know. Every family I have worked with has gotten grants or significant aid (they have all earned less than $75,000). These kids are amazing and they just need the opportunity for a college education. Without the FAFSA, college would be unattainable. High school counselors definitely do not do enough on this! Even middle-income kids can benefit. Schools like F&M, W&L, and Lehigh are happy to admit talented middle-income students and give them a discount. College is still extraordinarily expensive –way too expensive for most middle-income families, but filling out the FAFSA is a crucial first step in applying to college. Apply for scholarships! Write to members of Congress! We need to do something to rein in the costs. Eliminating administrative bloat would be a good first start!!!! (We do NOT need a Dean of Toilet Paper replacement, ….. — we should be putting that money into expanding opportunities and getting low-resourced kids up to speed so they can meaningfully compete).

]]> By: Robert Farrington https://thecollegeinvestor.com/21109/how-to-fill-out-a-fafsa-and-why-it-matters/#comment-332273 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 05:44:21 +0000 https://thecollegeinvestor.com/?p=21109#comment-332273 In reply to Terry Pratt.

You might not get a scholarship or grant, but filling out the FAFSA is also what enables you to get student loans should you need them.

]]> By: Terry Pratt https://thecollegeinvestor.com/21109/how-to-fill-out-a-fafsa-and-why-it-matters/#comment-332268 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 01:49:24 +0000 https://thecollegeinvestor.com/?p=21109#comment-332268 Student financial aid is a sham. I submitted FAFSA and got no aid as a result of my dysfunctional family situation. I lived with lower middle class relatives in NYC (not Manhattan) and apparently lower middle class salaries in NYC are too high to qualify for financial aid at most public colleges and universities.

The relatives listed on the FAFSA housed me but did not provide support, which came from my father.

I was academically recruited by the college I attended but they did not give me a dime of aid.

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