Archive for December, 2008

5 financial aid keys to improve award packages

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

The easiest thing students can do to earn free money for college is get good grades and test well on the standardized tests (SAT/ACT). Now this doesn’t start when your student is in the middle of their senior year of high school. Start good grades when you are a Freshman in high school.
Yeah-yeah I know [...]

Financial Aid Scammers pop their foul heads up again

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Financial Aid Scammers pop their foul heads up again
 
It is bad enough that students and parents are bombarded every which way with college admissions, essays, and financial aid. Now parents and students need to keep their antennas up for shady criminals.
 
Lets call them what they are low down dirty thieves, crooks, bandits. These unscrupulous [...]

Thieves, IRS & College bucket of gold at rainbows end

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

By J.D. Wyczalek
Remember the line in the hit movie Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!”
There is also an old adage why do thieves rob banks, because that is where the money is.
In the whole college financial aid game (and yes it is a game with players, winners and losers) in this game you have to [...]

CollegeBoard caught with hand in cookie jar

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

I bet you’ll be surprised about how student loans REALLY work.  Here’s what I mean.
On Monday, NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement with the College Board over its former loan practices.
That’s right, that’s the same College Board that tortures high schoolers with the SAT, the CSS/Profile financial aid form and other familiar items. [...]

State offers $1 million in aid to low-income students

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

State offers $1 million in aid to low-income students
By:Philip Haldiman, Dec 3, 2008
(see J.D.’s comments at the end of this article.)
Low-income college and university students just received another financial-aid opportunity from the state.
Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that $1 million in new financial-aid funding from the U.S. Department of Education will be available to continuing [...]