Share Your Experience: Make College Applications Less Stressful for Families

Please tell us how you have interacted with the FAFSA, if at all

Untitled multiple choice field

A

Have completed and submitted a FAFSA form within the last 3 years

B

Have begun filling out a FAFSA but did not complete and submit it

C

Intend to fill out a FAFSA for this or the next year.

D

other

What month did your child start the application process?

A

Before July

B

August

C

September

D

October

E

November

Have you been through the college app cycle with another child before?

Please rank the following tasks from biggest headaches and most miserable on top, to "this wasn't bad" at the bottom"

1

Choosing schools

1

Filling out the FAFSA/ financial aid forms

1

Tests (ACT/ SAT)

1

Filling out the Common APP/ school applications

1

Time and progress management

Did your family pay for any help in this process? If so, what service(s)?

How much did the college app process cost your family?

📈Stress Thermometer: If the college application process was a weather forecast, which would it be for your family?

A

🌞 Sunny — easy and clear

B

🌤️ Partly cloudy — some bumps

C

⛅ Overcast — confusing but manageable

D

🌧️ Rainy — very stressful

E

⛈️ Thunderstorm — total headache!

If you could change one thing about how you applied to college, what would it be?

Thank you for helping us learn more about how the process was for your family! We're developing a toolbox for the application process so it's way easier, quicker, and way less stressful. Our first tool that we're launching in September will take uploaded photos or pdfs of your tax documents and autocomplete the FAFSA for you. This is our first of a few tools we will be rolling out this year. We would love feedback and insight on this below so we can make sure the tools we make are helpful