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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The key piece of information is that the Department of Veterans Affairs is always the last payer of tuition and fee expenses ...

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 ...

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 ...