| PublicationDate: 1/30/97 Summary: 1997-98 Processing Status - Update #7 Author: OPE - Office of the Assistant Secretary for OPE Date : January 30, 1997 TO : Financial Aid Administrators FROM : Betsy Hicks Deputy Assistant Secretary for Student Financial Aid Programs SUBJECT: 1997-98 Processing Status: Update # 7 This is the seventh message in my series of reports on the status of 1997-98 application processing. Data from all original FAFSAs and Renewal applications received through January 17 were completed and transmitted by the MDEs to the CPS by January 29. In response to comments we have received, this week we are reporting processing volumes from the CPS. We are no longer using the numbers from the MDEs to the CPS. Please see the data below for more information. =================================================================== 1997-98 FAFSA RECEIPTS AND PROCESSING STATISTICS Through Friday, January 24, 1997 A. Receipts by the MDEs (Year to Date) I. Paper FAFSAs and 231,680 Paper Renewal applications II. History Corrections 5,475 * B. Number Processed by the CPS I. Paper FAFSAs & Paper 118,926 ** Renewal applications II. FAFSA Express Apps 3,506 III. Electronic Apps 15 IV. History Corrections 18 Notes: * FAFSA Express signature pages received by the MDEs are included in history correction receipts. ** The number of paper applications and paper renewal applications processed and reported here are only those transmitted to and accepted by the CPS as of noon on that Friday. You should have received ISIRs for these applications by the date of this report. |