Posts Tagged ‘ Financial Aid ’

How To Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt

Her main piece of advice is to flat out not head off to college at all “unless or until you can afford it.” Not the standard higher education version of the American Dream. Usually everyone’s telling young adults to do whatever they and their parents can in order to acquire a college diploma, regardless of how many decades beyond graduation both parties will be swimming in debt[ READ MORE ]

Fall 2011 Facebook App for Financial Aid

What do you get when you smash Bill Clinton, a UNLV grad, MTV, Bill and Melinda Gates, College Board, and Facebook? No, not that. (It was my first guess, too.)[ READ MORE ]

Why It Takes So Long To Earn a Bachelor’s Degree

I really don’t think it has only to do with a few more students per classroom and whether or not a student hits the higher education jackpot and manages to attend a top-tier school. [ READ MORE ]

College Grads and Student Loan Debt

While we’re on the topic of student loans and the lifetime of debt college grads will face, here are some informative articles and resources to peruse (find a paper bag and try to remember to breathe slowly and evenly)[ READ MORE ]

“Applying For Financial Aid Will Be Easier in 2010″

The form is simplified and is no longer written in a language incomprehensible to even students with 4.0 GPAs and off-the-charts SAT scores. [ READ MORE ]

Excellent FAFSA Resources

Please take a moment to thank your god(s) that this excellent list of FAFSA resources exists for any and all questions that will inevitably arise when soul-having mortals attempt to fill out bureaucracy-saturated forms of doom[ READ MORE ]