The FAFSA for the 2024-25 Academic Year Is Arriving. Some Big Changes May Impact Your Student’s Financial Aid.

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January 1, 2024 – In an article for CBS News MoneyWatch about the new version of the FAFSA that is now available, Shannon Vasconcelos, senior director of college finance for Bright Horizons College Coach shares why the changes were made.

"It's a really big change to the way financial aid eligibility is calculated," noted Shannon Vasconcelos, senior director of college finance for Bright Horizons College Coach. "The motivation was to simplify it and make it easier for families to fill it out in order to make it more likely that students and families compete the form and are more likely to go college."

Read the full article here.