Federal College Student Loans Aren’t Being Paid Back
America is bullish on student financial aid and rightly so. The many institutions of higher learning are sanctioned by all levels of government. Federal college student loans provide perhaps the lion’s share of funding for a large percentage of the nation’s students. State governments support state colleges like Sonoma State University (SSU). In Santa Rosa, ...
Federal Student Financial Aid-FASFA
It’s time to start over and make new year’s resolutions. Oh yeah, it’s also time for students to fill out their dreaded FASFA forms. This process is one of the joys of being a college student. For the next few months, students across the nation will try to prove themselves as the most eligible ...
Federal Educational Loan Consolidation – Getting Out Of The Debt Mire
As the educational costs in the US are reaching sky-high levels, more and more students take out either federal or private student loans to finance their higher education. In this case most students take out federal educational loans, as the rates are lower compared with the private student loans. However, when the students start taking ...
How To Write A Motivation Letter
One of the most important, though difficult points when applying to educational funds for scholarships is the writing of the motivation letter. The motivation letter represents the cluster of your ideas and ideology, your aims and reasons for applying for the particular scholarship. Every educational fund states its own special demands and expectations from students. But ...
Student Loans Bypass Community Colleges
Some of the nation's biggest banks plan to stop providing student loans for college applicants and students. Less-selective four-year colleges, like Eastern Oregon University and William Jessup University in Rocklin, California, have already been dropped by other student lenders. The New York Times reports that some loan companies have exited the student loan business entirely, viewing ...
US Government Wants To Buy Student Loans
The Bush administration has submitted a written proposal to the Congress seeking to buy student credit loans. By doing so, the administration hopes to provide capital to lenders for new student loans and to make sure that the nation's credit crunch does not prevent students from borrowing money for receiving a higher education. The New York ...
Sallie Mae Lost $104 Million
Sallie Mae, the Reston, Va., based student loan company, has lost $104 million in one quarter. The company has been suffering from financial problems since last year and a reshuffling of its top management as well as a failed buyout. According to Democratic Underground, Sallie Mae has eliminated about 1,000 jobs over the past six months ...
Brown University Drops Tuition Fees
Following in the footsteps of national top universities -- Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Princeton, Brown University is dropping its tuition fees for all those students whose parents earn less than $60,000 a year. The New York Times reports that Brown has other plans to substitute grants for student loans for all those whose families earn less ...
