Fuzzy for schools

Know the person behind the application.

Ghost students apply, enroll and draw federal aid without ever being real. Fuzzy gives admissions and financial aid a clear answer on whether a live, real person stands behind an application. Your team keeps every decision.

Explore a school pilot Security review answers
An application for admission with name, date of birth, address and $19,900 in aid requested, where the applicant is only a dotted outline. Ghost students never show up. Their aid does.

The problem

Faking an applicant got cheap. The aid is still real.

A complete application no longer proves a person exists. Every school that takes federal aid is exposed, open admission or selective, large or small.

$350M+

In ghost-student federal aid fraud investigated over five years.

ABC News, January 2026

$19,900

In federal aid eligibility per ghost student, per year.

U.S. Department of Education, 2025-26

April 2026

The Department of Education turned on real-time FAFSA fraud detection.

Federal Student Aid, APP-26-03

Where it stands today

ED flags. Schools resolve. Fuzzy is the resolution layer.

Federal Student Aid already flags suspicious applicants, and has since April 2026. Resolving those flags falls to the school, today, with no new law needed. Fuzzy gives your team a fast, consistent way to do it.

  • Live since April 2026

    Real-time FAFSA fraud detection

    ED flags applicants inside the FAFSA. Your office resolves them.

  • Passed the House, Senate pending

    H.R. 7892, the No Aid for Ghost Students Act

    Passed the House on June 10, 2026. It is pending in the Senate.

Receipt card: April 2026. Real-time FAFSA fraud detection went live. ED flags. Schools resolve. Source: Federal Student Aid, APP-26-03.

For the applicant

About 55 seconds. Free. Theirs to keep.

  1. Your school sends an invitation. The applicant opens it and follows the steps.

  2. ID, selfie and liveness. About 55 seconds in the app, free to the applicant.

  3. Your team gets the outcome. A clear category, ready for your review path.

  4. The applicant keeps a campus passport. A personal badge they own and can share with a link. It renews with the same quick check every 12 months, with reminders.

Building next: more campus moments beyond admissions.

A teal campus passport card, the proof-of-humanity credential, stamped Admissions verified.

For your team

A clear outcome. Your call.

Fuzzy reports that a check did not clear, never why. When one does not clear, a person on your team helps next. Fuzzy never makes the decision for you.

Two outcomes on teal: Verified, and Did not clear. A person helps next. Fuzzy reports the outcome, never why. Your team makes the call.
01

A categorical outcome

Verified, or did not clear. No scores to interpret.

02

Your review path

Anyone who does not clear goes to the human review your office already runs.

03

An audit record

A record for every check, so you can show how each flag was resolved.

04

Nothing sensitive to hold

Your school never holds an ID image or a biometric.

In production

In production at Barry University.

Barry University began with graduate admissions, then expanded to undergraduate and graduate applications. It has been in production since July 2026.

Demo tenant with representative data. Not Barry University and not a real school.

Fair by design

Nobody is blocked for not completing a check.

A student without a smartphone or a current ID still has a path. Your office keeps its own human review and every decision. Fuzzy adds a fast answer for the many, and leaves the few to the people who know them.

For your security review

The answers your questionnaire will ask for.

For IT, compliance and counsel. Ask us for anything not covered here.

Read the full security page
Does our school hold IDs or biometrics?
No. Capture happens inside the identity engine’s hosted flow. What comes back to your school is a category, never an ID image, never a face, and never a reason.
What does the outcome tell us?
Whether the check cleared. Fuzzy reports that a check did not clear, never why. Your team decides what happens next.
What do we have to install?
No hardware and nothing for your staff to install. Applicants verify in a hosted flow from an invitation you send.
Is there a record we can audit?
Yes. Every check leaves an audit record your team can review.
How do you handle student privacy?
A data processing agreement is signed with each school at contract. Send us your template and your counsel’s redlines.
Which certifications apply?
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP Ready (High baseline, announced November 2025) are held by Incode Technologies, our identity engine.

Start a pilot

Let’s scope your applicant workflow.

Tell us your institution and where verification fits in the applicant journey. A person will help define the pilot scope, reporting and review path.

Email the schools team

schools@fuzzyverify.com