Many high school students don’t understand how the college financial aid process works

Many high school students don’t understand how the college financial aid process works

College student entering a financial aid. College student entering a financial aid.

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Students’ knowledge of the financial aid process is “shockingly low.”That’s the takeaway from a new study by ACT, which in April 2018 surveyed about 1,200 high school students who were registered to take the standardized test.Regardless of economic background, most families pointed to price as a very important consideration in choosing a college. Yet most students don’t understand the basic workings of financial aid, which includes grants, scholarships, work study and loans. More than 70% of students didn’t know that loans from the […]

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