Talk:Edifi

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Background[edit]

Edifi was born at a time when the financial aid process was more difficult and opaque than it is today. (See http://www.consumerfinance.gov/paying-for-college/ for tools that did not exist when Edifi was operating.) The FAFSA and the College Board Profile forms were harder to complete manually than today, when they have been placed online, with automated internal crosschecks. It was then more difficult than today to find out what a college actually cost (colleges concealed, and to an extent still conceal, this information), and it was also not easy to understand the financial aid a college offered a student. Some colleges presented their offers in a straightforward, easy-to-understand fashion, but others definitely did not. The whole process, with all its nooks and crannies, was difficult for a parent to learn. It remains complicated and opaque, though less so. It is a recognized national problem that many students do not go to college because they do not know how much financial aid is available, or are unable to handle the application process.

deisenbe (talk) 21:13, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. It's completely unsourced except for one small bit that's inappropriate. ElKevbo (talk) 22:40, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Article cleaned up, some falsehoods[edit]

One-contribution editor Tryon Marks, and I think I know the identity of this person, did some major editing on 8 May 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edifi&diff=719251126&oldid=705600358), which had the effect and apparent purpose of making the company seem nicer than it really was. She introduced out and out falsehoods - the company did not have a guidance counselor, it did not give pro-rated refunds, and the 5-day cooling off period was not voluntary, it was mandatory under a change in NYS law. If anyone wants to see the article as I wrote it - the differences are not trivial - see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edifi&oldid=668601931. deisenbe (talk) 18:59, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]