College enrollment is up. The financial aid mess could bring it crashing down. The number of first-time filers has dropped 40 percent since the new FAFSA’s bungled rollout.

Enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen declined by 5 percent this fall compared with last year, according to new analysis from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). That drop ...

But officials there don’t believe FAFSA delays ultimately impacted enrollment because low-income students receiving federal Pell Grants increased from 33 percent to 39 percent.

Even though some schools have pushed back the deadline to give students more time to work out kinks in the new FAFSA system, many colleges are sticking with the uniform enrollment date, which is ...

College enrollment is declining. Is the botched FAFSA rollout to blame? Collage of money, FAFSA forms, and a student looking at a hand with pencil filling out form.

This year, a new version of the federal financial aid form has caused serious problems throughout higher education. Its poor implementation has led not only to delays but a significant drop in ...

Colleges have seen a recent uptick in enrollment, but a variety of factors — from changes in the employment market to this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) mess — mean … ...

The federal financial aid calculators told her she would likely be eligible for $15,000 in loans, grants and work-study, but her FAFSA had not been processed before a May 1 deadline to commit to a ...

A 1993 Hastings College graduate who has worked for the College for 31 years, has been named Dean of Enrollment and Financial ...

However, requiring FAFSA completion as a graduation requirement will weaken its predictive power of college enrollment, making it harder to predict next year’s enrollment numbers from FAFSA ...