Financial Aid Applicants Increase

The Department of Education (and reported in US News & World Report) released numbers recently that indicate that there was a jump in college students applying for financial aid. This jump can likely be attributable to the FAFSA application being web-based now, which makes it easier to apply than the previous paper forms of days gone by. Additionally, the degree of exposure college cost increases have gotten in the media, combined with parents not saving enough for college costs, combined with a larger pool of high school students graduated from high school this year--- have contributed to this phenomenon.