Current FAFSA Completion Detail

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Definitions

• FAFSAs Completed (FAFSA Completion #): The number of completed FAFSAs among first-time filing applicants no older than 19 at the cutoff date who will have received their high school diploma by the start of the school year to which they are applying for aid
• Senior Count (Seniors #): The estimated high school senior count is based on the TEA October PEIMS 12^th grade enrollment snapshot when available, otherwise the prior year’s 11^th grade enrollment is used
• FAFSA Completion % (FAFSA Completion %):  The percentage of high school seniors who complete the FAFSA. Calculated as the # FAFSAs Completed divided by the estimated Senior Count
• FAFSAs Submitted (not shown): The number of FAFSA submissions from first-time filing applicants no older than 19 who will have received their high school diploma by the start of the school year to which they are applying for aid.  Submitted applications may be rejected by the Central Processing System if key pieces of information are missing.  Applications not rejected are considered completed
• FAFSA Submission % (not shown): The percentage of high school seniors who submitted the FAFSA. Calculated as the # FAFSAs Submitted divided by the estimated Senior Count
• Submission-Completion % Gap (S-C Gap): Submission % minus Completion %.  The gap represents the % of students who have submitted incomplete FAFSAs that need to be corrected

Please see Data Details for additional information on assumptions with important implications. The report uses publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Education, which differs slightly from counts available to advisors in the ApplyTexas Counselor Suite.

As of April 2021, the Texas Education Agency has applied new masking rules to ensure confidentiality of student data. The publicly available student enrollment data now provides a range instead of precise values.  For the purposes of this report, data less than 10 will be replaced with 0. All other ranges will be replaced with the closest value within the range, e.g. <100 students will be replaced with 99.

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