The Freep is a master of understatement for the actual cause of the woe expressed in the article: Significantly fewer students have completed the FAFSA while colleges try to manage fallout
About a quarter of Michigan's high school seniors have completed the federal FAFSA form, the ticket to receiving federal aid for higher education, compared with nearly 40% at this time in 2023, according to federal data.
The lagging completion numbers are partly due to a nearly three-month delay to roll out the new version of the form for students bound for higher education, according to Diann Cosme, director of MI Student Aid within the newly created Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP).
The real reason is the new FAFSA fargin' website doesn't frickin' work. The rollout, delayed as it has been simply is a website that DOES NOT WORK.
Shades of the Obamacare website rollout. This makes the Freep sad as it's the Democrats dropping the ball yet again so they clearly cant come out and state the obvious.
Quite simply the website makes it impossible to complete the form.
I get an email that I need to sign the app as a parent.
So I login. The only actions are to either delete the form or edit it.
I do edit and it says you must review the entire page and go to the bottom to continue to sign it.
I go to bottom of the page.
However at the bottom of the page there is only a button marked return, which returns you to the main screen. It does not let you sign the FAFSA.
In short there is no way to sign the form. The website does not work.
I swear, the Department of Education under Biden could mess up a wet dream.
3 comments:
Something similar happened to me last Summer, only it was my Doctor's "Patient Portal". It didn't work, messages to/from the Doctor didn't get through, prescription requests didn't get through, and it took several HOURS to get through on the phone. I couldn't get a prescription refilled in a timely manner, and wound up in the hospital for over a week with very serious cardiac issues.
I feel your pain......
It’s worse than the article says. Not only was the rollout a disaster, then they had calculation errors where they had to pull back 40% of the submissions. And it was only two weeks ago where the portal allowed access for corrections. On the university side, they cannot do need based scholarships because they don’t have the data. Most have pushed back decision deadlines from potential students by months from the usual deadlines.
drjim: Yep it sucks. You would think they would test it properly before rolling it out nationwide, but lots of people are reporting this problem, as well as lots of other issues.
Midwest Chick: Yep, they seem to be deliberately downplaying how messed up this is, being an election year and all.
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