FAFSA Submitters Can Now See Their Results Immediately

The platform improvement, called Real-Time FAFSA Results, launched Monday.

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Students who fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will now be able to get feedback on their eligibility for grants and loans immediately, thanks to a user experience update the platform launched Monday.

The Office of Federal Student Aid will not only provide instant eligibility information for students who properly filled out the form, but it will also immediately notify those who didn’t of the errors they made.

“Historically, if a student made an error, we wouldn’t tell them right away. We’d send an email a day or two later asking them to come back and fix it. Which means we were relying on a 17-year-old to read an email, understand it, remember their login, return to the FAFSA, and complete a correction. You can imagine some challenges with that process. Today, that changes,” Aaron Lemon-Strauss, executive director of the FAFSA program, wrote on LinkedIn.