One quarter to one third of recent college graduates who took out students loans to finance their college education are late paying their first...
Tag - Financial Aid
Can You Appeal for Financial Aid?
April brings that time of year for taxes and sorting out financial aid offers. In the financial aid process, the question is: Are all financial aid...
What Determines Your Financial Aid Package?
A full ride to college and the sky’s the limit? Is that what you are thinking when you apply to a high-priced college and seek financial aid? The...
Get Your Student Aid Applications in Order…Now
Is there any one of you who can afford college without any financial aid? Then you are in the 1%! It only makes sense before you choose the college...
Some Interesting Figures about Student Loans
According to the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education 23% of students who borrow money for college tuition drop out of college. But...
Merit Aid, or Not?
Financial aid is most often need-based. If a family or student cannot afford college, both colleges and the federal government offer them loans to...
New College Loan Rates Plan Approved by the Senate
The Senate approved the new bipartisan student loan plan for government loans on the last day of July (2013). On July 1, student loan rates doubled...
What is Happening to Student Loans?
We all know that the student loan debt for a college education is soaring. It’s at 1 trillion dollars now and is greater than the credit card debt...
Why Don’t Low-income Students Go to Selective Colleges?
I bet you think the answer is because they can’t afford it! Wrong! In May (2013) Matthew Yglesias wrote that the case is just the opposite. He cites...
The Latest on College Student Loan Repayment
Important news! Starting December 21, 2013, there is a new plan taking effect for students to repay their college loans more easily and with less...