Middle-class families will face the brunt of changes to how the U.S. Department of Education calculates federal financial aid eligibility for college students using the newest version of the FAFSA ...

Cassy Rodriguez, 17, has always been a planner. Well before high school, she knew she would be the first in her family to graduate from college. She would then get a degree in social work to become a ...

The information on the FAFSA is used to determine eligibility for federal financial aid, like work-study and federal student loans, as well as aid from the state and the college itself. These include ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America’s prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad ...

Filling out financial aid forms is hardly a task that fills anyone with joy, but this year it has been particularly burdensome. That’s because the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) ...

A FAFSA applicant says she was asked to specify her “type of white” while completing the federal financial aid form, calling ...

HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR IN YOUR FAMILY. IT’S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA FOR STUDENTS TO FILL OUT THE FAFSA FORM. IT’S ALSO A STATE LAW. NEW HAMPSHIRE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Farrington writes about higher education and student loans. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is usually the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a long summer of technical glitches, most of America’s prospective college students finally applied for federal financial aid — an annual process upended by a redesign-gone-bad ...

FAFSA website is seen on the laptop as Adjovi Golo holds a laptop at DePaul University in Chicago. Delays and glitches in the new federal financial aid forms disrupted many students' plans for college ...