The application students use to apply for financial aid has undergone substantial changes for the fall 2024 and spring 2025 school year. The Department of Education has been implementing changes to ...

Rebecca Safier is a personal finance writer and certified student loan counselor who specializes in student debt, personal loans, and budgeting. Previously a senior writer for LendingTree and Student ...

DoNotPay harnesses AI agents to facilitate procedural bureaucratic processes—most recently enabling students to apply for scholarships and financial aid. One of the most practical uses of AI has been ...

College acceptance letters are starting to roll in, but this year a major glitch in the new application process for financial aid has brought the process to a halt. The federal aid application is ...

Financial aid professionals with laptops will be ready, waiting and eager to help local students meet upcoming state-wide deadlines for Cal Grant/CADAA and FAFSA. (The priority deadline for both are ...

After a trouble-plagued application overhaul, U.S. Department of Education officials released next year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid last week, more than a week before its Dec. 1 target ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tassel with a 2024 tassel rests on a graduate's mortar board The number of federal student financial aid forms filed by ...

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There are several tool kits and community resources that students and families can access for help with student financial aid.

High school students trying to assess what a college education might mean for their financial situation can get some clarity with a new app — one designed and built by fellow high schoolers. Called ...