Counselor
Links to Pages
New Information! Colleges and Universities
Counseling Services including (Sumner Co Mental Health)
Course Catalog https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yI-DhgTOEQnO8uzLwsji7bOavkh0sIGJ/edit
Military (ASVAB, ROTC, Service Academies)
Student Athletes (NCAA and NAIA information)
Kristy Martin, High School Counselor
620-456-2963
FAFSA INFO
First BIG announcement: The form and how to complete it is fundamentally changing.
Second BIG announcement: The FAFSA form WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE this year until mid or late December.
Implications:
No one will be able to complete the FAFSA in the Fall semester.
Colleges nationwide will be unable to provide students with early estimates of college costs.
Presentation will cover:
Updates to who is considered ‘the parent’ for the purpose of completing the FAFSA (It is no longer who you live with the most and has conformed more to IRS regulation)
Updates to who will be considered as members of the family on the new FAFSA. (This concept is completely changing as well and will also conform more to IRS regulation)
The concept of ‘consent’ for the purposes of completing the form. (More people will have to create an FSA ID and provide their ‘consent’ for the form to be complete.)
A high level overview of how the Pell grant will be calculated (It is a much simpler to understand and people could walk away from a presentation knowing if and how much Pell grant they will receive.)
Early release screenshots on the look and feel of the new FAFSA form as well as high level information about how to navigate the form.
Instructions on who will need to report asset data on farms and small businesses as well as some guidance on how to calculate and report that information.
Instructions on how to set up an FSA ID and Password in preparation for the December release of the FAFSA.
Instructions on how to request an appeal or professional judgment of the results of the calculation and new things to consider appealing that were unnecessary before.
2024-2025 FAFSA Release Date
The Department is sticking to their “December release date” phrase with no further nuance about ‘when’ in December. They are unable to predict at this time when the actual release date will happen, but have promised to let us know as soon as they know.
