Posted on 07/12/2017 3:39:18 PM PDT by simpson96
Researchers spend long hours trying to figure out how to get high school students to apply for financial aid. It turns out that Michelle Obama is a powerful weapon in that fight.
A new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education has found that a visit from the former First Lady can spark "substantial increases" in a community's FAFSA-completion rate. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is the door-opener to grants and loans.
A team of three researchers from the University of Virginia examined four FAFSA-completion events Obama headlined in the spring of 2014: in Washington. D.C., New Orleans, San Antonio, Texas, and Topeka, Kansas. They studied FAFSA filing rates by 12th-grade students in the school districts where the events happened, and compared them to the rates in "synthetic control" districts, composites created by using the weighted average of similar districts statewide.
In the weeks before Obama's appearances, the FAFSA-filing rates in the synthetic-control districts were the same as those in the districts where she was scheduled to appear. But in the districts where she spoke, FAFSA-filing rates rose four to five percentage points more than they did in the control districts.
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Might should’ve added a wookie alert when posting pictures of her for the feint hearted.
NO. I don’t want more students applying for financial aid. Because they don’t pay it back and because AA is broken. And no loans for classes like underwater basketweaving. And no loans to keep people as professional students. Loan for jr. college - repay it before you go to university. Loan for university - repay it before you get to graduate school. Loan for graduate school - you got five years to repay it before your wages are garnished - heavily.
Stop free stuff!
As she gets older I look and see Maxine Waters.
"Look, honey. When you born stupid and ugly like you and me was they only 3 choices:
* Prostitutin'
* Play the race card in college
* Be a beard for some 1/2 black gay dude to marry who has white liberals behind him.
I tried all 3 but got no johns on the first -- the rest was EASY!"
Bring in Michelle Obama? Why? Is there a bounty on her? A proper way to phrase this would be, “Bring in Michelle Obama to Help,” or whatever is intended.
She is the Pied Piper of FREE SH**.
Actually there are WAAAAAY too many people attending college as evidenced by the attrition rate.
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