With the FAFSA® application opening soon, now’s the perfect time to help your students separate fact from fiction. Below are a few of the most common myths from Going Merry that they debunk on the regular: Want to read the full list of myths and see the truths? Check out the Top 10 FAFSA® Myths Read More
Will you be ready to help students when the 2026-27 FAFSA form releases? There are two things we already know about upcoming changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): 1. In November, President Biden signed the FAFSA Deadline Act, establishing Oct. 1 as the release date for the FAFSA. The bill had Read More
The FAFSA rollout continues to have speed bumps and there are a lot of questions that have arisen from the revised FAFSA process. Going Merry put out a nice list of 7 solutions Counselors can suggest to families if they run into issues when filling out their children’s forms: Use a different browser. Some users Read More
Saying the new FAFSA rollout has had some issues is stating the obvious. There have been numerous reported problems with the rollout. The US Department of Education has launched a page that outlines some of those issues and the solutions to them. There is a section that lists all the open issues and another that Read More
NACAC is hosting a free FAFSA-focused webinar. Isaiah Ellis, Awareness and Outreach Specialist from the Federal Student Aid Office of the U.S. Department of Education, will provide an overview of the changes to the 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) form, which resulted from the FUTURE Act and the FAFSA Simplification Act. This session Read More
There continue to be a lot of questions pertaining to the changes to the FAFSA particularly due to the delay of its implementation. In an archived webinar sponsored by Polygence, Mark Kantrowitz, President of Cerebly, Inc. covers all the new changes to the 2024-2025 FAFSA, Mark noted these key consequences for families. For example, the Read More
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