Nearly 44,500 students took advantage of Colorado’s one-day waiver of college application fees on Oct.15, doubling participation from last year’s effort and saving those applicants almost $2 million in fees, Gov. Jared Polis’s office announced Wednesday.
“We are thrilled by the results of this year’s Colorado Free Application Day,” Polis said in a news release. “We know that access to higher education is a crucial step toward securing a good-paying job that can help hardworking people enjoy the Colorado way of life and provide for themselves and their families. Removing this cost barrier is one way we can make higher education more accessible for students and families, and I am proud our institutions continue to step up and rally behind them.”
Participating institutions — all 32 public colleges and universities in Colorado along with several private ones — received 44,488 applications. The 2019 effort saw a 100% increase in participation over last year’s campaign. About half of the applications, 21,373, were submitted by students of color and more than a third were turned in by first-generation students. Both of these groups, historically, have lower college enrollment rates in the state.
“Among the 2017 graduating high school class, there was a 15-point gap in postsecondary enrollment among white (61%) and Hispanic and Latinx students (46%), who make up the fastest-growing ethnic group in the state, and a 7-point gap among white and African American and Black students (54%),” the news release said.
Colorado State University in Fort Collins led with 9,100 applicants applying on the fee-waived day, followed by CU Boulder with 7,339 applications and University of Northern Colorado with 5,908.
Statewide, application submissions to four-year colleges and universities are up 10% compared to last year, the news release said.
Despite being one of the most educated states in the country, Colorado only sends 56% of its high school seniors to a college, university or certificate program, and only half of students submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
Colorado students lost out on nearly $50 million worth of federal financial aid during the 2015-2016 school year because they didn’t fill out the FAFSA.
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