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☆ A FAFSA Fiasco Has Students Still Asking: Which College Can They Afford?
  + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Colbi Edmonds | Bernard Mokam | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
By this time of year, college-bound high school seniors are usually celebrating their choices, researching dorms and even thinking of their majors. Because of a disastrous rollout of the new application for federal tuition aid, many still don’t know how much tuition they would be paying and so have not decided where they can afford to go. The Education Department’s redesigned form for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, was supposed to make applying for tuition aid easier and more accessible. But faced with a bureaucratic mess caused by technical meltdowns and severe delays in processing information and receiving aid packages, students say the new system has been anything but clear or streamlined. The first signs of trouble began in December with the form’s release and have cascaded since, creating uncertainties for students — with graduation right around the corner.
Persons: that’s Organizations: Federal Student Aid
☆ After Affirmative Action Ban, They Rewrote College Essays With a Key Theme: Race
  + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Bernard Mokam | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Astrid Delgado first wrote her college application essay about a death in her family. Then she reshaped it around a Spanish book she read as a way to connect to her Dominican heritage. But he reworked it to focus on an heirloom necklace that reminded him of his home on the Navajo Reservation. All three students said they decided to rethink their essays to emphasize one key element: their racial identities. And they did so after the Supreme Court last year struck down affirmative action in college admissions, leaving essays the only place for applicants to directly indicate their racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Persons: Astrid Delgado, Deshayne Curley, Jyel Locations: Dominican
☆ A Summer Basketball Refuge Thrives in the Bronx’s Largest Housing Complex
  + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Bernard Mokam | Gabriela Bhaskar | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Jeremiah Peoples was alone on the fast break with the energy of the crowd fueling him to the rim. It was opening day of Grenada Built to Win, the summer basketball league at Edenwald Houses in the Bronx, and there was little space to move. After painting the asphalt through the night and holding a clinic in the morning, the league’s founder, Rasheem Jenkins, known as “Rah Rah,” announced the games in the afternoon with verve and humor. “In and out like a relationship,” he teased as the ball spun off the rim. The league, which began its 11th season this June, is the realization of a dream he had nourished since he was one of the neighborhood kids.
Persons: Jeremiah Peoples, Rasheem Jenkins, ” Organizations: verve Locations: Grenada, Bronx
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