Do people realize that chasing big merit means applying to less selective schools?

Here’s the PDF version of FAFSA from four years ago (academic year 2019-2020):

2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

See student question 22. For a male applicant who had not previously registered with SSS, this provided a chance to opt-in. Not automatic, although at the time not registering by some process would have resulted in denial of federal student aid.

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