The Importance Of FAFSA Forms

There comes in time in every adolescent's life where you are obliged to think about what is in store for your future. In the American grade school system you are advised rather by your parents or mentors to start thinking about college, years before high school graduation. In American culture we are taught at a young age to optimistically share our dreams of what we want to be when we grow up. It is a conventional perception that any child can be what they they want to be if they put their mind to it. After admission to college, I was inconveniently not taught about the financial aspects about paying for college. There was no class offered that taught how to fill out the FAFSA form, privatized loans vs federal loans, or any financial aid qualifications. …show more content…
Students that are oblivious to these certain deadlines can cause students to unintentionally fall behind. It takes roughly two weeks to process an average FAFSA forms and sometimes longer if you are required to submit special forms. If you submit your forms too late then it can cause a delay in your financial aid disbursement which can lead to withdrawal from courses due to lack of funds or the inability to purchases necessary tools for success like required textbooks for courses. Students really depend on aid in order to pay for dorms, food, books, and transportation. The federally-funded manual will enclose all valid deadlines displayed so delays in funds can be avoided for students who are …show more content…
It would be understandable in a situation where this became a pattern for a student, but I have witnessed even some of the best students receive an “F”. The grant money, although helpful, isn’t nearly enough to support a young adult for an entire semester so students are often busy with work, as well as important social lives, and sometimes have to deal with family or relationship problems. To have to deal with all of these already stressful, yet important, aspects of college life and then have to pay the school back money because you didn’t pass one class can be very discouraging, and can even cause some students to drop out. The online manual will inform students of their school academic probation standards to avoid this mishap. This way, students would have warning before being charged fees and when uncontrollable things happen in life that affect a student's grade, it wouldn’t completely derail their school