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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say the number federal student aid applications are Utah on the rise, even as numbers nationally fall.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/29lZmWp) that while Utah continues to lag behind the rest of the country, the number of students filling out the applications grew 5.5 percent this year.
It was likely helped by the state's new use of a web tool that tracks which students in each district have completed the FAFSA form. The state's system of higher education also started sending out emails to college students who filled out an application last year remind them to fill it out again.
Last year, about 70 percent of eligible high school graduates in Utah didn't fill out a FAFSA.
U.S. Department of Education data shows that the national completion rate fell 3.2 percent this year.
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