In the end, nearly 600 colleges received a total of more than 6,200 processed FAFSAs, the department said. Many institutions won’t be able to download and test those processed forms, known as ...

Jonathan Taledo, a freshman at the University of Illinois at Chicago, fills out paperwork with his mother, Julissa Leon, during a FAFSA workshop on Feb. 23, 2024, at UIC. (TNS) — Next year’s ...

Oct. 18, 2022: “Processed Successfully: Your Child’s 2023-24 FAFSA Form.” So two days was all it took for the feds to evaluate the info and prepare a report to send to the colleges for which ...

The 2025-26 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, will only be partially available starting Oct. 1, ... They said they plan to test it for errors, ...

The department and its partners are planning to host FAFSA completion events throughout the week. Beta 1 will last for the first half of October and then the Education Department will open up the ...

A new FAFSA form opens for a test run on Oct. 1, 2024, the United States Department of Education announced. Select students will apply for college aid.

The Education Department said Thursday that the 2025-26 FAFSA form will likely be available to all students and families "in the coming days." ... During the test run, ...

The Education Department wrapped up phase one of the federal aid form’s limited rollout last week, seeking out early bugs and reassurance for families shell-shocked from last year’s fiasco. Are they ...

The Biden administration faces a huge test this fall as high school seniors and their families wait to see if the college financial aid form is functional or a debacle like last year’s form.

The FAFSA will be fully available by Dec. 1, two months later than usual but a month earlier than last year's application. MorraLee Keller, a senior consultant with the National College Attainment ...

As part of an exclusive U.S. Department of Education initiative, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has conducted initial testing of the latest ...

As its name says, there is no fee to fill out the online FAFSA form to become eligible for college scholarship and aid money, but this year it is imposing a high cost on families and colleges. And ...