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New York Will Require Students to Complete FAFSA or Opt Out
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Let’s Make Later Deposit Deadlines Permanent
Colleges are extending admission commitment deadlines due to FAFSA delays, but there’s no good reason they can’t do this every year, Chuck Knepfle writes.
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Is Financial Aid the New Affirmative Action?
Many highly selective colleges are pumping up their financial aid offerings. With race-conscious admissions out of the picture, it may be their best bet for diversity.
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FAFSA Reprocessing Could Take Weeks
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In Return to Tests, Don’t Forgo Disability Equity
As colleges reinstate standardized testing requirements, they must consider students with learning disabilities, Dwight Richardson Kelly writes.
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After the FAFSA Quake, a Flood of Corrections
As delays to the FAFSA rollout piled up, so did an unusual number of errors, both on student forms and in the Education Department’s eligibility calculations.
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Harvard and Caltech Restore Test Requirements
The decisions, announced hours apart, came more than a year before their temporary policies were set to expire—and after a wave of similar decisions by their competitors.
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Roadmap of College Credit for Military Experience
University of North Carolina’s new tool translates military occupations and training to nearly 7,000 matches for college courses across its 16 universities.
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