How will the FAFSA debacle impact colleges and universities this fall?
4 min readApr 8, 2024
Over the past year the United States federal government has been revising its FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) system. Unfortunately, its rollout over the past few months has been chaotic. Delays, errors, more delays, having to redo applications, and other problems have beset the effort.
My question today is, how will FAFSA problems impact student enrollment this fall semester?
“a rolling catastrophe,” according to Ted Mitchell of ACE