The Most Confusing, Chaotic College Admissions Season in Years - WSJ (gift link)

[Anonymous]

"Changes in the federal financial-aid application, testing requirements and affirmative action plunge applicants and schools into uncertainty; ‘a hot mess’"

As if we didn't already know it was a sh*tshow.


"Many students can’t seriously consider college without financial aid, and counselors worry frustrations with the application could lead to enrollment declines.

Twenty-nine percent of high-school seniors submitted the Fafsa as of March 1, compared with 45% at that time last year, according to the National College Attainment Network, an advocate of increased college enrollment. The decline was even steeper among students from low-income high schools."

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/college-admissions-chaos-federal-financial-aid-fd72fe36?st=wz80ce9rpwqmqrc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Anonymous]

The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

Agree. And thats why there are no comments on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

we are the only country in the world that pays for people that aren't citizens to be educated in higher institutions. It's laughable in other countries.

[Anonymous]

The department of education was too busy trying to figure out how to forgive student loans so FAFSA suffered..the same company responsible for healthcare.gov in the Obama years is responsible for new and improved FAFSA.

Gotta love the democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: :shock: The department of education was too busy trying to figure out how to forgive student loans so FAFSA suffered..the same company responsible for healthcare.gov in the Obama years is responsible for new and improved FAFSA. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Gotta love the democrats.

Take your meds grandma

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: :shock: The department of education was too busy trying to figure out how to forgive student loans so FAFSA suffered..the same company responsible for healthcare.gov in the Obama years is responsible for new and improved FAFSA. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Gotta love the democrats.

Take your meds grandma

DP. The PP is absolutely correct. And your lame response shows you have no intelligent rebuttal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The department of education was too busy trying to figure out how to forgive student loans so FAFSA suffered..the same company responsible for healthcare.gov in the Obama years is responsible for new and improved FAFSA.

Gotta love the democrats.

Funny how I’m still paying my student loans while waiting for my child’s fafsa to process. So wish you were right.

[Anonymous]

And my 2025 HS grad will have fewer opportunities as a result, as kids graduating in 2024 will defer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

Agree. And thats why there are no comments on this thread.

I said over and over again we should not close school during Covid. I don’t have a college age kid so I’m not following what happened with FAFSA close enough.

[Anonymous]

Nuts are out in force in this one. It is easy to have all the answers when all you want to do is nothing.

[Anonymous]

Another thread immediately overrun by MAGA trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another thread immediately overrun by MAGA trolls.

Well, the WSJ is really taking an extra hard angle on this because of their political bias, I'm sure. Yeah, fafsa is a mess. But, the whole "most chaotic " is such hype. Some schools based aid on CSS and are fine, others are extending acceptance deadlines. I don't think this is the deal breaker or "chaos" WSJ and some politically motivated people want it to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

Agree. And thats why there are no comments on this thread.

People tend to support liberal policies more when it doesn’t affect them. They turn MAGA when their kid may not get a spot at UVA or public school boundary changes are proposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The number of low income students going to college dropped during covid and is now dropping again because of the FAFSA f**-up. This is going to lead to more income inequality. But on dcum, everyone is yelling about the unfair advantage first gen and poor students get and plotting how they can look like they are first gen.

The whole thing is sad and gross.

we are the only country in the world that pays for people that aren't citizens to be educated in higher institutions. It's laughable in other countries.

What are you talking about?? I was a non-citizen (legal) who went to college here in the US and I got zero handouts. I had to pay just like everybody else.