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How enrollment leaders should navigate the new FAFSA processing delay

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Students and families who fill out the FAFSA presume that colleges will get their information immediately and be able to make financial aid determinations. But that simply won't be the case for the most motivated FAFSA filers, which includes current students as well as prospective students.

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Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling

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Nobody is quite sure, and many are, as a result, concerned that whatever use they do make of race in their admissions processes may put them on the wrong side of the law. Since the Court’s ruling did not specifically address financial aid, some have assumed that it is exempt. What does this mean, exactly?