Scholarships Dot Com has a blog that check out a couple of times a week. They're a pretty up to date source of info on financial aid. Having worked in a college financial aid office myself, I...
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Applying to US Universities had a nice piece the other day on scholarships for working moms. It seems that eLearners.com, American Intercontinental University, Walden University and DeVry University...
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Wanna go to Columbia? The university just revised their financial aid policy. And now you can probably get out without dragging around a student loan for a decade after graduation - if your family...
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I've said it before: financial aid is a complicated thing. After you've gotten the money that is available from state & federal government sources, the trick to financial aid often becomes...
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Stanford has joined the club of top tier universities to revise their financial aid policies so that the most working an middle class students don't have to borrow money to attend the institution....
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Add Cornell and Northwestern to the long list of major universities that have now eliminated student loans from the financial aid packages they offer their neediest students. Northwestern announced...
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The Associated Press is reporting that President Bush's 2009 federal budget proposal will include a $2.6 billion dollar expansion of the Pell Grant program. The Pell Grant helps low income...
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Financial aid is a complicated thing. The federal government has a philosophy on it. Your state has an approach. And your college has its own ideas about how to manage the state and federal funds. In...
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You're not poor. You're fortunate enough to come from a family with a nice middle class income. You grew up in a home with two cars, a nice house, parents who have decent jobs, etc. So you...
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Dartmouth has followed the lead of other top schools like Harvard, Yale, and Duke, and done away with its student loan programs. A number of top tier colleges and universities in the past few months...
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The Counselor's Corner blog made an excellent point about financial aid: some of the best sources of aid are local. The nice people at the Counselor's Corner give their own examples. I went...
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Inside Higher Ed has an excellent and detailed analysis of the politics of financial aid and how the tension between need-based aid and merit-based aid is coming to a head in Tennessee. According to...
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It is becoming almost a weekly occurrence. Another top tier private university is increasing the size of its awards to students getting need-based financial aid. And this time it's Harvard... We...
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Duke University has announced plans to expand its financial aid programs for low income and middle income students. Duke is following a policy trend in financial aid with its actions this week. A...
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The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission has settled a lawsuit with a Mormon student over whether or not he can defer the state's Promise Scholarship until after he returns from...
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Illegal immigration has become a big issue in the American Presidential campaign. And the nice people at Scholarships Dot Com have a pretty good analysis of that issue online at the moment. I...
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is among the news sources reporting that the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) has voted to cut spending on financial aid programs in the...
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President Bush signed the sweeping new student loan bill into law on Friday, slashing federal subsidies to private loan companies and increasing grants for students. The bill will provide "$20...
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by Mark on July 25, 2007
(Source: Amherst College) Princeton did it, and now Amherst is following suit. Starting in fall '08, the college will not include loans in its financial aid packages. Instead, it will meet all...
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by Mark on June 01, 2007
(Source: University of Chicago) An anonymous donor (imagine that) has given the University of Chicago $100 million to underwrite scholarships for low-income students. Coverage from the Chronicle of...
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Filed in archive Financial Aid
by Mark on March 19, 2007
(Source: Davidson College) Following in Ivy footsteps, Davidson College announced it will no longer require students to take out loans. Instead, the college will meet financial need through grants...
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