Oyin Adedoyin
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1,572 appearances
36 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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Many families are having trouble accessing the form in general.
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Others are getting kicked out midway.
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And others are seeing other technological glitches related to email confirmations and things like that.
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They have.
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So they're calling this a soft launch.
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And that means that the application has been opened for a limited time in the first week, while the education department periodically takes it down to fix any glitches that they're seeing in real time.
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But that's been really frustrating for students and parents who are trying to submit this form as soon as possible to see how much aid they can receive from the federal government.
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The language was very confusing.
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Even financial aid officers told me that they didn't really start seeing the soft launch language until the middle of December.
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Prior to then, everybody assumed that it was going to be a full, hard launch of the FAFSA in late December when it was intended to come out.
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Colleges are aware and they're responding in a variety of ways.
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It's a bit tricky because the Education Department has said that due to these changes, colleges aren't going to get access to the data from the FAFSA until at least the end of January.
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So their hands are tied in a sense.
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There's not really a lot they can do to assist families until then.
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But many colleges are creating their own FAFSA forms to give families a better idea of how much institutional aid they could provide.
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Others are extending certain deadlines to give families more time.
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Families and colleges are extremely worried about certain groups of students, especially those who are high school seniors coming into college for the first time in the fall.
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So for those students who applied maybe early action or early decision, they're hoping to get an earlier idea of what college they're going to go to.
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But this process really crunches that time for them.
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In a normal timeline, those students would get their entire financial aid package early, likely before the end of the year, like around December or early January.
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