NPR – Anjuli Sastry
“High school students nationwide are filling out college financial aid forms — and it’s not just seniors this year. Some changes are on the horizon to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. For one, the form can be submitted much earlier. One student capitalizing on the early deadline is Isaac Horwitz-Hirsch, a junior at Santa Monica High School. But Horwitz-Hirsch and his parents, Joshua Hirsch and Ruth Horwitz have found that the new changes to the FAFSA are hard to understand. “The financial aid part is really confusing,” Horwitz-Hirsch says. The family earns a middle class income and they made certain financial decisions before they knew about the new, earlier FAFSA deadline.”(more)