Student Aid Forms Start Trickling In

The Department of Education began sending batches of student aid information to colleges last week, following through on the delayed and highly disruptive FAFSA timeline it laid out in late January. Yet while the department has finally turned on the tap, student aid forms—crucial for assembling accurate financial aid offers—are coming at a trickle. Brian Ghanoo, associate vice president of student financial services at Fordham University, said they typically receive about 100,000 Institutional Student Information Records, or ISIRs, in a given cycle. So far, they’ve gotten three.