Archive for September, 2009

Stafford Student Loans

To gain a meaningful education it is wise to choose a university where your interest in classes will be captured. To help the selection process you may want to see what type of student loans you can get. The best one to look at in full detail is that of the Stafford Student Loans program. [...]

Kinds Of College Scholarship Programs

If we are going to categorize the kinds of college scholarship programs available today, we can only sum they up into 2: college scholarship programs that are given by colleges and universities and college scholarship programs that are given by institutions or groups.
College Scholarship Programs from Colleges and Universities
There are 3 common types of college [...]

Financial Planning – The Key to Your Lifelong Success

Financial planning is not limited to asset allocation, mutual funds, and fixed-income investments – planning should include every aspect of your life.
Should you apply for that credit card? What type of car insurance should you buy? Should we save for our child’s college or put money in our IRA’s instead? These and many more [...]

Private Student Loans: A Parents Best Choice?

The common notion that buying a home is your largest expenditure a parent would ever purchase is not really true. College education if it is not the largest will come in very close next to your home purchase. Parents who want to secure private Student Loans will have the daunting task of obtaining student loans [...]

Plan for College – Use your Resources

Planning to go away or to start college is a fun and exciting time for those students who are planning on attending. The stressful part usually comes from finding the resources to pay for your college education. It is important that you and your parents plan out together how much money you are going to [...]

What agencies do I need to contact to apply for community college financial aid?

What agencies do I need to contact to apply for community college Financial Aid? Including possible help with living expenses.
The college ought to have a financial aid office. That would be the most important place to start. If they are aware of other agencies to which you should apply, they’ll give you points [...]

What are the least requirements to get a scholarship to any decent colleges?

Im just wondering..
Can you get a 4year scholarship with 3.9ish GPA, and over a 2100 sat scores?
Or do you have to be OVER THE TOP student to get a 4 year scholarship from any colleges?
What are the LEAST requirements?
Even if you don’t get a full Scholarship, you can apply for as many private scholarships as [...]

Financial AID??!!?

im going to get Financial Aid for a community college.
i dont work, and im getting like $4,000 dollars for my whole tuition. im happy about that.
but… do i have to pay that money back to the goverment?
thanks in advance!!
it depends…is this a grant, a loan, what? a grant can be paid [...]

What is the best way to research college loans?

I want to find the best college loan, one that has very low/no interest. How do I go about researching that?
Sallie Mae web site has great info. Also try Fast Web for Scholarship and loan info.

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When do student loans begin accumulating interest?

I’m going to be starting grad school in the next year and have no experience with the student loans I’ll probably end up taking out. I’ve searched for details via several student loan websites, and perhaps no one mentions it because it’s taken for granted that interest accumulates immediately, but are there any loans [...]