{"id":1792,"date":"2018-01-23T07:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-01-23T07:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:15:46","slug":"now-available-formyourfuture-fafsa-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/now-available-formyourfuture-fafsa-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Getting more students to complete the FAFSA is a crucial step in expanding college access and a new online tool makes it easier than ever for states and communities to monitor their progress.<\/p>\n

The #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker<\/a>, launched on Monday, tracks and ranks states\u2019 progress toward getting 100 percent of their high school seniors to file for federal financial aid.<\/p>\n

The interactive online dashboard, which is updated weekly, also includes city-specific data.<\/p>\n

Users can chart their week-by-week progress, see how their community compares to other states and cities, and even check how this year\u2019s completion rates stack up against data from last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy allowing states and locales to compare their outcomes with peers and others across the nation, (this tool) aims to inspire a little friendly competition in our collective quest to ensure that all students, especially those underrepresented in higher education, can afford to achieve their educational dreams,\u201d according to a blog post<\/a> announcing the new tool.<\/p>\n

The FAFSA Tracker is part of the #FormYourFuture<\/a> campaign \u2014 a National College Access Network<\/a> (NCAN) effort aimed at increasing the number of low-income and underrepresented students who file for federal financial aid.<\/p>\n

Although the vast majority of students who go to college get some form of financial aid, only 61 percent of high school seniors file a FAFSA by graduation, national data show.<\/p>\n

The result? Federal student aid dollars go unclaimed, and too often, students who could have qualified for assistance believe college enrollment isn\u2019t economically feasible.<\/p>\n

State- and city-wide efforts to boost FAFSA completion address both issues.<\/p>\n

Students who file the FAFSA are 63 percent more likely to attend college, according to NCAN data. And research shows student postsecondary persistence rates increase by 4 percentage points for every additional $1,000 received in grant aid.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker<\/a> and check out free FAFSA completion tools and resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Getting more students to complete the FAFSA is a crucial step in expanding college access and a new online tool makes it easier than ever for states and communities to monitor their progress. The #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker, launched on Monday, tracks and ranks states\u2019 progress toward getting 100 percent of their high school seniors to … Continue reading Now Available: #FormYourFuture FAFSA Tracker<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25],"tags":[381,269],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-financial-aid","tag-form-your-future","tag-ncan"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-sU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}