Kat Tretina - Forbes Advisor
Of the millions of high school students who didn’t complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in 2018, nearly one-third said they didn’t fill it out because they didn’t have enough information or they thought it was too time-consuming.
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