{"id":23233,"date":"2015-02-03T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2015-02-03T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:59:30","slug":"florida-fafsa-completion-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/02\/03\/florida-fafsa-completion-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida FAFSA Completion, By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we told you about a program in Miami-Dade County schools <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/02\/02\/why-paperwork-is-worth-millions-to-florida-college-students\/\">to help more students complete the federal financial aid application, known as the FAFSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some graphs to<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Florida compares to California, Texas and the national average for the rate of high school graduates who submit a FAFSA:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1bm127I9kABXlppmhhsrgujTK4lhNa9XCucg8Vr6SJYU\/pubchart?oid=1553721959&amp;format=interactive\" height=\"371\" width=\"600\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And how much Pell grant money Florida students leave on the table because they fail to submit a FAFSA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdwallet.com\/blog\/nerdscholar\/2015\/FAFSA-college-money-left-on-table\/\">according to projections by NerdWallet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1bm127I9kABXlppmhhsrgujTK4lhNa9XCucg8Vr6SJYU\/pubchart?oid=1488897563&amp;format=interactive\" height=\"371\" width=\"600\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And this graphic compares the FAFSA completion rates at seven Miami-Dade high schools hosting FAFSA marathons (no data was available for MAST-Homestead) to the county-wide rate:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1bm127I9kABXlppmhhsrgujTK4lhNa9XCucg8Vr6SJYU\/pubchart?oid=1762936309&amp;format=interactive\" height=\"371\" width=\"600\" seamless=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want more FAFSA data &#8212; who doesn&#8217;t, right? &#8212; check out the tracker at the Florida College Access Network. <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableausoftware.com\/views\/FloridaFAFSAFinishLine\/BySchool?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3Adisplay_count=yes&amp;%3AshowVizHome=no\">They&#8217;ve got searchable school-by-school data, updated throughout FAFSA season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And you can also check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridacollegeaccess.org\/event\/its-fafsa-season-let-the-funds-begin\/\">Florida College Access Network FAFSA webinar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we told you about a program in Miami-Dade County schools to help more students complete the federal financial aid application, known as the FAFSA. Here&#8217;s some graphs to Here&#8217;s how Florida compares to California, Texas and the national average for the rate of high school graduates who submit a FAFSA:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":23227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1013,72,1037,938],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23236,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions\/23236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}