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California Community Colleges are urging students to submit their financial aid applications by Sept. 3, as federal financial aid applications are still down by more than 40,000 submissions. When the ...

After a significant delay this year due to huge changes in how student aid is calculated, students and families will be able to start their federal financial aid applications by New Year’s Eve. The ...

DoNotPay harnesses AI agents to facilitate procedural bureaucratic processes—most recently enabling students to apply for scholarships and financial aid. One of the most practical uses of AI has been ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. First-time freshman enrollment at several Bay Area universities shrank this fall after errors in the ...

Fewer California high school seniors are completing federal financial aid applications than in past years, which some analysts say is a sign that students may fear the Trump administration will use ...