How the FAFSA Debacle is Affecting Students' College Plans
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Federal Education Department rolled out a new FAFSA form that was supposed to make things easier for students, but instead it has been plagued with problems. Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, talks about how the "bungled" rollout of the form has derailed some students' college plans.
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| 1:00.0 | season now for high school seniors who apply to college and got accepted to choose a |
| 1:06.0 | school. The deadline for accepting your acceptance at lots of places is May 1st or |
| 1:10.9 | thereabouts. But this year college selection season has gone weird. |
| 1:15.8 | It's weird for some because of the post-October 7th environment at some schools, |
| 1:20.0 | anti-Semitism or anti-Muslim environments have some families uncertain about how |
| 1:25.9 | welcoming or how safe or how much free speech there is at the places they |
| 1:31.1 | applied to enthusiastically in the fall, and for many others what might |
| 1:35.6 | have been a joyous season of celebrating your acceptance or your child's acceptance or your |
| 1:40.2 | students acceptance at the college of their choice has turned into a season of high anxiety |
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