Drop in Student Aid Applications Tied to COVID
Researchers extrapolate from data in the California school system. After the COVID-19 crisis hit in March 2020, federal student aid applications in the U.S. dropped sharply among potential first-year students, according to a study published in Educational Researcher. Oded Gurantz and Christopher Wielga of the University of Missouri in Columbia used data from the California Student Aid Commission and the American Community Survey to study trends among college applicants in California. They compared trends in the total volume and characteristics of submissions of the Free Appl...
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