This year it's a slow crawl to financial aid packages for students
Colleges are just beginning to receive long-overdue FAFSA data. Meanwhile, students who've been accepted to college still face weeks before they receive aid offers.
Prospective college students are one step closer to financial aid packages this week, but the timeline is still months behind.
This "is definitely one of the stranger years that we've had," says Keith Raab, director of financial aid at Oregon State University.
That's because, this year, the U.S. Department of Education gave the federal student aid application, or FAFSA, a long-awaited makeover. The and in higher education and in high schools – not to mention the millions of students waiting to learn how much money they'll have for college.
