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2024 financial aid computation for colleges stops considering multiple children in college. That US, before family contribution was divided by number of children in college, now it won’t. I presume, byh, it affects a lot of Jewish families. Anyone sees the effect on total amounts? How do colleges, especially landers, touro, yu respond? Do they compensate with other aid sources?
Why did the government stop considering the number of children in college for FAFSA?
FAFSA is just a data collection device. What institutions do with the data is up to each institution. It is an interesting “shailoh” whether anti-discrimination laws might impact on a school’s decisions about how they consider family size.
Overall, the new FAFSA application will provide more funds to more lower-income students but there will be some who may see a reduced funding eligibility. As of October 2022, what used to be called the”Expected Family Contribution, or EFC, calculation and is now the Student Aid Index or SAI , no longer includes a sibling discount, which took into account how many children from the same family were attending college at the same time. The new formula is applied uniformly across all racial, ethnic and religious groups and geographic regions in accordance with the law.
Sadly, the actual online FAFSA application form which was supposed to be ready for users back in mid-2023 is running late and was just delayed again by HHS due to software and funding issues.
I think you have to take “Dora’s” word on this. It is probably an expert as it constantly demonstrates as it is vying for the president job at Harvard. And a University president would be expert at all things FAFSA. וד״ל
Is the original poster trolling or actually plans to send to “landers, touro, yu”. The same question applies to yeshivos some get government funding.
As with yeshivos and landers, touro, yu – you have to make you individual with each mosad/organization.
Just saying.
Nisht: I actually turned down the Harvard gig….I’m rumored to be on the short list of candidates for the President of the University of Chelm.
“I never heard of antisemitism or plagiarism at Chelm [University].
Antisemitism no but the current vacancy is the result of the prior University President claiming he authored several original seforim of responsa that in reality, were verbatim compilations of the all-time greatest CR posts from R’ Yosef.
The new FAFSA would result of more aid only to lower income children from small families, and apparently pays for it with reducing aid to poor families with many children. Especially if the Republicans win, it might get changed. It appears to have been an administrative decision rather than a statute, making it easy to change.
One of the objectives of the 2020 legislation was to try and level the playing field as between families whose kids’ ages were clustered together (and likely to have several kids in college simultaneously) and those whose kids’ ages were spread out. The details of this change and all the other were left to the bureaucrats at DoEd who have totally screwed up the new simplified electronic application which is months late and creating a nightmare for high school seniors who have no idea whether they will get financial aid and how much.
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