The Changing Pell Landscape Part 2: Understanding the Pell Population
As student demographics continue to shift, enrollment leaders are searching for ways to better understand where the recruitment landscape might be heading. For the second part of The Changing Pell…
Preparing for the FAFSA: Inoculate Your School for the Year Ahead
Last year’s FAFSA rollout caused massive disruption for college enrollment offices, students and their families. As the Department of Education prepares for another launch, the MARKETview team thought it would…
The Changing Pell Landscape Part 1: Successful Financial Aid Strategies
Many enrollment offices are facing the challenge of recruiting the students of tomorrow to preserve the long-term success of their institution. In response, they have had to shift their strategic…
Is it Time to Move on From Discount Rate?
Anna Swanson, MARKETview Founding Partner, Data & Analytics, warns of the long-term impact if tuition pricing and discount rates continue to rise across the marketplace. “People keep saying we’re going to…
Navigating the FAFSA Delay: Will You Be Ready?
All of higher education is anxiously awaiting the day FAFSAs arrive and finally provide precious insight on how their incoming classes are shaping up. When that point comes, the question…
Aid Modeling Beyond the Student Aid Index (SAI): Here’s What We Know
December’s ‘soft launch’ of the so-called ‘simplified’ FAFSA still leaves a lot of uncertainty for campuses and admitted students alike. The National Association of Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has been…
Early Insights from MARKETview’s Comparative Aid Report
As colleges and universities wrap up the Entering Class of 2023 and shift their focus to the Entering Class of 2024, part of that focus is innately on financial aid…
Recommendations from “The Reinvention of Financial Aid”
The upcoming impact of the “Better FAFSA” will permanently alter the landscape of financial aid and disrupt the ways that enrollment and financial aid offices have traditionally operated. Institutions will…
What Should Colleges Do to Prepare for the New FAFSA Changes and Timeline?
The next admissions cycle will force every college or university in the U.S. to sail uncharted waters. While anticipating an uncertain economic outlook and contending with a market reset post-COVID,…
Confidence Requires Courage: How a Thirst For Knowledge Will Help You Tackle This Year’s Financial Aid Challenges
Somewhere beyond being data-driven is the concept of data courageous. One of the things that have inspired me most since joining MARKETview is the courage our partners display in a…