Matthew wants to become a nurse

August 24, 2009

I know there is no way we will be able to pay for the 3 kids to go to college.
We may be able to pay a small part of the 3 kids college tuition/expenses. But, the 3 kids are within 6 years apart so there will be at least 2 kids in college for 4 [...]

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Life-experience portfolio

June 15, 2009

Did you know you may be eligible to earn college credit just for you life experience?
A life-experience portfolio is a comprehensive presentation listing and describing all learning experiences in a person’s life, with appropriate documentation. The basic document is then used in assigning academic credit for life-experience learning.
So if you’ve learned a language from traveling [...]

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About the Financial Aid News

June 15, 2009

I found this fascinating quote today:

The Financial Aid Newsletter is the Student Loan Network’s longest running publication, dating back as far as 1998, when the company first began publishing financial aid information. Today, Financial Aid News is a combination of newsletters and blogs from around the Internet, dedicated to bringing you the best, most up [...]

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5 Smart Ways Students Use the Summer

June 15, 2009

Fall serves as the perfect transition between summer and winter while playing host to Halloween, the start of the NFL season, and of course the start of a new school year. Growing up in New England I also enjoyed the foliage and smell of warm apple pie wafting down from the dorms as I walked to [...]

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Equivalency Exams Save Time & Money

June 15, 2009

One loop hole that gets completely overlooked is the equivalency exam.
The nontraditional approach to higher education says that if you have knowledge of an academic field, then you should get credit for that knowledge, regardless of how or where you acquired the knowledge from.
About 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada award [...]

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Asking Questions on your College Tour is Key

June 15, 2009

Are you passive by nature or even a self described social leper? Do you feel more comfortable behind a computer screen than behind a podium or microphone? If that’s the case there’s certainly no shame in that. But when it comes to visiting a college campus you’ll want to tap into your inner loquacious self [...]

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About the Financial Aid News

June 15, 2009

I found this fascinating quote today:

The Financial Aid Newsletter is the Student Loan Network’s longest running publication, dating back as far as 1998, when the company first began publishing financial aid information. Today, Financial Aid News is a combination of newsletters and blogs from around the Internet, dedicated to bringing you the best, most up [...]

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Test Prep, to What End?

June 15, 2009

From Inside Higher Ed.
The extent to which the SAT is coachable has long been central to debates about the ethics of the test. After all, if tutoring programs that cost money help scores, there is an obvious issue of who will be able to afford such an advantage. For years, the College Board insisted that [...]

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Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments

June 15, 2009

New York Times May 10, 2009In an early indication that the economic downturn may not have disrupted students’ college choices as much as schools had feared, more than a dozen top colleges said last week that accepted applicants had committed themselves to attending next fall at about the same rate as last year.
Among the private [...]

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Top 5 Reasons Online Classes Rock

June 15, 2009

At this point the cat isn’t only out of the bag, as it pertains to online degrees, it’s a full grown lioness on the prowl. Online degrees were once viewed as a gimmicky soiree into the world of higher education, but oh how things have changed.
I must admit, even I was cynical in the [...]

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College Recruiters on Twitter?

May 1, 2009

Twitter and Facebook are among the social media tools that recruiters and university officials are using these days to promote their school and lure students.
According to the USA Today the number of colleges using social networking sites and or putting video on their blogs more than doubled from 2007 to 2008.
So what does this mean [...]

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Time to Choose Your School

May 1, 2009

Today is officially the last day of “haggle month.” Financial aid officers refer to April as haggle month because of all of the parents who spend time asking for better financial aid offers.
Students generally have until tomorrow, May 1st, to decide whether to accept or reject an offer of admission. It’s going to be a [...]

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Private, Public School Prices Getting Closer

May 1, 2009

Just last week I wrote a blog entitled, Private Schools More Affordable than State, which spoke to the point that financial aid packages may actually be more attractive at private institutions driving down the bottom-line cost for you. This week it was announced that many budget-strapped public universities are predicting significant tuition hikes lending further [...]

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Wave Goodbye to the SAT

May 1, 2009

If it was up to me I would either toss the SAT out of the college admissions process, devalue its weight, or make it optional across the board. There is nothing standardized about that exam.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe tests are a necessary part of life. When I was trying to land a customer [...]

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Private Schools More Affordable than State?

May 1, 2009

Although the initial sticker price may be more at private universities when compared to state schools that doesn’t necessarily mean it will cost you more
Back when I was shopping for colleges in the early 90’s I was seeking the most affordable school, but was not factoring in all the variables that contribute toward the bottom [...]

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PrivateStudentLoans.com Comparison Press Release

May 1, 2009

Student Loan Network

1250 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA 02169email: press@edvisors.com, web: http://www.PrivateStudentLoans.com

PrivateStudentLoans.com encourages students to consider all their student loan options
Quincy, MA (PRWeb) July 19, 2009 - The Student loan Network introduces a new private student loan comparison website offering a variety of loans for for funding your college education. Compare a private [...]

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