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Why Didn’t Students Complete a FAFSA?

Why Didn’t Students Complete a FAFSA?. Mr. Steven Bahr Dr. Kathleen Mulvaney Hoyer Activate Research, Inc.

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Why Didn’t Students Complete a FAFSA?

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  1. Why Didn’t Students Complete a FAFSA? Mr. Steven Bahr Dr. Kathleen Mulvaney Hoyer Activate Research, Inc.

  2. “25 percent of students who were in ninth grade in 2009–10 did not think college was affordable; that percentage grew to 33 percent when these students were in 11th grade (Velez and Horn 2018).”

  3. Stats in Brief – present descriptive data in tabular formats to provide useful information to a broad audience We encourage readers who are interested in more complex questions and in-depth analysis to explore other NCES resources, including publications, online data tools, and public- and restricted-use datasets.

  4. FAFSA – a free form to help students find financial assistance • Apply for federal aid for postsecondary education • Considered for aid by states, institutions, and private funders Introduction For more information about the FAFSA, please see https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa.

  5. High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) • Nationally representative study of a cohort of ninth-graders in fall 2009 • Focuses on understanding student’s trajectories from the beginning of high school into higher education and the workforce • 2013 Update • Conducted in the summer and fall of 2013, when most students had graduated from high school For more information about HSLS:09, please visit https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/hsls09/index.asp Data

  6. Of fall 2009 ninth-graders who graduated from high school, what percentage of students or their parents reported completing a FAFSA? • What were the reasons that students reported for not completing a FAFSA? • Did he reasons that students reported that they did not fill out the FAFSA vary by student, family, or school characteristics? Study Questions

  7. Figure 1. Percentage distribution of fall 2009 ninth-graders, by completion status of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): 2013 FAFSA completion status

  8. Figure 2. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders who did not complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), by socioeconomic status: 2013

  9. Figure 3. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders who did not complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), by parents' highest education: 2013

  10. Of fall 2009 ninth-graders who graduated from high school, what percentage of students or their parents reported completing a FAFSA? • What were the reasons that students reported for not completing a FAFSA? • Did he reasons that students reported that they did not fill out the FAFSA vary by student, family, or school characteristics? Study Questions

  11. Figure 4. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders, by reasons for not completing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): 2013

  12. Of fall 2009 ninth-graders who graduated from high school, what percentage of students or their parents reported completing a FAFSA? • What were the reasons that students reported for not completing a FAFSA? • Did he reasons that students reported that they did not fill out the FAFSA vary by student, family, or school characteristics? Study Questions

  13. Measurable differences existed for those who reported that they did not want to take on debt. Socioeconomic status 34% in the highest fifth vs. 25% in the lowest fifth and 27% in the middle three fifths Parents’ highest education 33% with a master’s degree or higher vs. 26% with a high school diploma or GED

  14. Figure 7. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders without a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), whose reason for not completing a FAFSA was because they or their family did not have enough information about how to complete it, by parents’ highest education: 2013

  15. Figure 8. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders without a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), whose reason for not completing a FAFSA was because they or their family did not have enough information about how to complete it, by race/ethnicity: 2013

  16. Figure 9. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders without a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), whose reason for not completing a FAFSA was because they or their family thought they may be ineligible or may not qualify, by socioeconomic status: 2013

  17. Figure 10. Percentage of fall 2009 ninth-graders without a completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), who did not complete a FAFSA because they or their family thought they would not qualify for financial aid, by the reasons why they thought they would not qualify: 2013

  18. Find Out More To download this Statistics in Brief, or to view this report online, go to: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2018061 Undergraduates Who Do Not Apply for Financial Aid (NCES 2016-406). https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2016406 Student Financing of Undergraduate Education: 2011–12 (Web Tables) (NCES 2015-173). https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2015173 Getting Ready for College: Financial Concerns and Preparation Among the High School Senior Class of 2003−04 (NCES 2015-173). https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2010204 Readers of our brief may be interested in the following NCES reports:

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