Students who will be attending college in 2007-08 should start filling out the federal government’s financial aid form — even if they filled it out last year and were denied assistance.
Congress made several changes in the federal financial aid formula that could make some families eligible for more, especially those who own a small business [...]
If Congressional Democrats make good on a promise to cut interest rates on college student loans, Oregon students could benefit more than nearly any other state in the country.
A study released Thursday by the Public Interest Research Group, OSPIRG, found that college-bound Oregonians would save more than $4700 in loan payments. Rob Manning has more.
Democrats [...]
COLLEGE COSTS can be daunting. A year at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst costs Massachusetts residents more than $17,000. A year at a private college can run more than $45,000. At those prices, some students fall into a tuition gap. Even with financial aid, they do not have enough money to pay all their college bills, [...]
When Jeremy Hynd graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004, he applied to consolidate $44,000 in student loans. With interest rates then at record lows, consolidation offered the opportunity to lock in a 2.5% rate for the life of the loan.
But Hynd discovered that $27,000 of his loans weren’t eligible for federal loan consolidation because they [...]
If your federal financial aid award left you feeling a little high and dry, don’t sweat it. Uncle Sam is just one source of funds to tap for college. From cashing in on your company’s tuition reimbursement program to attending a work or co-op college, there are lots of ways to pay for college without [...]
You might weep the day you leave your son or daughter in a college dormitory for the first time, but wait until you take a look at the first bill for tuition, room and board.
You could be moved to a different kind of tears.
About this time of year, that bill arrives. And it’s a [...]
The B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education is investigating a private college in Vancouver over alleged irregularities involving government student loans to Chinese immigrants.
According to the government, at least 70 recent immigrants used the loans to pay City Tech College $10,000 each in tuition.
When officials with the B.C. Student Assistance Program discovered the students were ineligible [...]
Say goodbye to the pressure of tests; bring on the pressure of debt … a lot of debt if you are like the average person graduating from college this year.
Until now, you may have paid little attention to the loans you’ve been taking out to pay for college. But usually about this time, after donning [...]
American families, students, parents, educators, and officials in the loan industry are getting behind a petition to change student loan repayment.
Concerned about how rising student debt and interest rates are affecting Americans, these citizens and groups recently petitioned Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to make regulatory changes to loan repayment rules that would create more [...]
Think your college boards were hard? What about those college financial aid offers? They can make your SATs look like Scrabble Junior.
If you were accepted by several schools, there’s a good chance you also received offers of financial aid. Comparing them isn’t easy. The award letters typically contain combinations of scholarships, grants, work-study and loans.
Some [...]