In honor of Memorial Day, I’d like to take a minute to thank those of you who are serving — or have served — your country. We are all in your debt. We’ve talked here before about financial aid for members of the military and military veterans, but in case you missed it, I wanted [...]
Federal Aid
I’m starting a new feature here at the Financial Aid Finder that I’ll be calling — for lack of a better name — Did you know?. Every other week or so, I will look at one important, but little known (or often forgotten) aspect of financial aid. The goal here is to help you be [...]
Hey all – We’ll have more on this later, but wanted to give you a head’s up on changes to the federal student loan program. The new legislation was attached to the health care bill, which passed on Sunday, March 21. The senate still must have its say but it appears the legislation will pass. [...]
Welcome to Scholarship Weekend. Most of you have been off on Spring Break this past week. I hope you enjoyed some R&R and feel ready to get back to the business of wrapping up your 2nd semester with success. Which reminds me, I wanted to share with you a quote that I recently heard: Among [...]
USNews & World Report ran an interesting article last week with eight financial aid trends for American colleges in 2010. The bad news is that college will cost more in ’10 than ever before. But there is some good news, too. Here’s what USNews had to say (and what I think about it). 1. It [...]
An article earlier this week in the Army Times reports that veterans trying to pay for school with the post-9/11 GI Bill are still experiencing major delays. I first alerted you to the problem with GI Bill benefit delays back in September, when some 250,000 veterans were facing late payments as a result of backlogs [...]
