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Navigating The Financial Aid Application Process: The Voices Of First-Generation College Students, Holly Kirkpatrick
Navigating The Financial Aid Application Process: The Voices Of First-Generation College Students, Holly Kirkpatrick
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
This qualitative case-study explored how the financial aid application process contributed to or detracted from the persistence of first-generation college (FGC) students. FGC students are the first in their families to attend college and make up one-third of college-going students each year (RTI International, 2019). FGC students use financial aid at a higher rate than their continuing generation peers, are less likely to have funding from outside sources, such as their parents (Martinez et al., 2009), are more likely to default on their student loans, and do not persist to graduation at the same rate as their non-FGC peers. Semi-structured …