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Financial Aid Forms stress everyone out

The New York Times’s Tamar Lewin manages to write 1000+ words about financial aid without breaking out of the conceptual box drawn by the universities themselves. She never questions the notion that it’s not “aid” in many cases, just a way to sell loans. And she doesn’t deal with the weird philosophical incentive to spend like crazy because the schools will take any dollar you actually save. She just talks about the complexity of the form and how some folks want to make it simpler, they really do, but there’s no easy way to squeeze all of the money out of the parents and the tax payer without requiring a ton of information.

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  1. Amen. FAFSA is an issue, but fixing it will not solve the fundamental problem of the financial aid system itself. I, too, wondered how such an article could miss the big picture by so wide a margin. ROBERT RONSTADT has an opinion piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education today that begins to get at the real issues. While I don’t necessarily agree with his solutions, the headline is great: “Don’t Fix the Student-Aid System, Kill it.”

    1. Public Administrator on February 23rd, 2009 at 6:18 pm

  2. You have got to be kidding me. The FAFSA is not that hard. Every college in the country has a financial aid office that will help you fill it out. What I think is hard is writing essays to promote yourself when applying for scholarships. The FAFSA is all facts, no competition.

    2. bettyo on April 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 am

  3. The FAFSA is all facts, no competition.

    As the Talking Heads taught us in the glorious 80s, “Facts are lazy and facts are late; Facts all come with points of view; Facts don’t do what I want them to.”

    FAFSA may be simple if you have one bank account and one job, but they’re impossible if you have your own business. There’s no easy way to value it. Furthermore, FAFSA creates an evil disincentive: save money and we take it; spend money and we give you charity. That’s wrong, wrong and wrong again on so many levels.

    3. admin on April 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

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