October is College Changes Everything® (CCE) Month in Illinois, when the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) teams up with high schools and community partners to support students in completing their college and financial aid applications. During CCE Month and the Fall CCE Campaign from Labor Day through Thanksgiving, ISAC and its partners provide an intensive schedule of free college and financial aid application completion workshops available statewide. That’s especially important this year, as students will see changes in the  Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) that will begin to simplify the application, and there will be expanded financial aid eligibility for some students. The 2023-24 FAFSA and the  Alternative Application for Illinois Financial Aid are available now. Among the changes to the 2023-2024 FAFSA form are the removal of the question related to the requirement that students identified as male at birth register for Selective Service before the age of 26 to qualify for federal student aid. Questions related to drug convictions have also been removed from the FAFSA. For more information, visit www.isac.org/FAFSA-Completion.