Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
14 recordings
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first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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Last year, it didn't open until the very end of December.
And then even when people could access the form, they had trouble submitting it.
So we still have families now where the student's supposed to start school in a couple of days or weeks.
And they still haven't gotten their final aid offer and scholarship money.
It really did.
It was really hard for a lot of families to figure out how much college might cost, which is one of the main factors in deciding where to go for so many families.
Most families can't just casually assume that they'll make up the difference somehow, right?
This is tens and tens of thousands of dollars you're talking about.
So you had a lot of families crossing their fingers and signing, yes, I'll go here and really just hoping that it worked out.
You had a lot of families saying, well, hold on, maybe we don't commit this year.
We take a semester off, we take a year off, and then we figure it out next year.
And the concern there, of course, is that the students don't come back or don't come in the first place.
The Department of Ed has said that their goal is to avoid some of the snafus of the last cycle, right?
So by...
rolling it out slowly, granting limited access beginning October 1st, and then kind of ramping up throughout October and November so that everyone has access by December 1st.
That will allow them to test for bugs in the system.
They'll be able to see if students and families from certain demographics, certain family situations, certain tax situations, if they have trouble filling it out, then they can fix that before it goes really broad.
So the hope is that
just like most software updates, they do some testing and then they launch it.
Not really.
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