Susan Dynarski shares her personal experience with financial aid challenges during her undergraduate studies in the 1980s and reflects on the evolution of financial aid in higher education over the decades. Despite improvements in federal databases and financial aid availability, barriers such as complex paperwork and delayed eligibility notifications still persist, disproportionately affecting low-income students. Dynarski emphasizes that the bureaucracy of financial aid processes has created additional obstacles that deter qualified students from enrolling in top colleges, even though they may have strong academic backgrounds.
Dynarski remembers being cash-strapped on campus. But her recent work has focused less on the amount of money available than the process for securing it.
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