2/28: Promo, contest, interest rate update, in school consolidation, scholarship, defeating discrimination, On Tracy Lane, #192
Student Financial Aid News
+ New promo
+ New contest
+ Why is higher education financial aid always taking the bullet?
+ There’s less political damage to cut higher ed
+ In school consolidation “loophole” closes on July 1, 2006
+ You can apply for consolidation now even if you’re graduating in May
+ Apply at StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ Interest rate update
+ T-Bill rate now at 4.625%
+ Market is clearly pricing in the next rate change
+ Will it price in two rate increases?
+ Stafford …

The Financial Aid Podcast Episode 200 Promo and Contest
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The Financial Aid Podcast Episode 200 Promotional Contest!
Win a 4 GB iPod Nano or other cool swag! Here’s how to enter!
* First prize is a free 4GB iPod nano™ ($250 value)
* Second prize is a $15 iTunes Music Card
* Third through tenth prizes will be a copy of Matthew Ebel’s new album, Beer and Coffee (via CD Baby)
* Winners will be announced on the Financial Aid Podcast on Episode 200!
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* How you found out about the Financial Aid Podcast,
* What you like …

2/27: JobCast novel, Episode 200? FAFSA deadlines, scholarship scam, scholarship update, determine your salary, Matthew Ebel, #191
Student Financial Aid News
+ Good sized bug in the PMN
+ Go vote for Episode 200!
+ Preview of part of our new jobcast novel in this month’s newsletter
+ FAFSA deadlines coming soon
+ CA, IN, KY, MD, MI, MT, NC, ND, OR, RI, WV
+ File your FAFSA today at http://www.FAFSAonline.com
+ Vicious scholarship scams – $1,500 to find a scholarship?
Scholarship Update
+ Yawkey Foundation Yawkey Scholars Program
+ Deadline April 15, 2006
+ $20,000 scholarships
+ Residents of Eastern Massachusetts
+ Detailed …

… for Episode 200 of the Financial Aid Podcast?
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2/24: iTunes Scholarship? LVC private loans and usury, scholarship update, Jobcast elevator speeches, Geoff Smith, #190
Student Financial Aid News
+ Juilliard School has a new scholarship: The Alex Ostrovsky iTunes Scholarship
+ No information yet on how to apply for it – 1 billionth iTunes song sold
+ Expert Interview Series page is now up on our site
+ Want to be interviewed on the Financial Aid Podcast? Email me!
+ Lehigh Valley College drops the Sallie Mae / Stillwater Bank loans
+ Discussed previously – these loans originated in Oklahoma due to lenient usury …

2/23: PLUS and Alternative Loans, Mortgage refugees, PHEAA, Intel scholarships, Jobcast about salary, Natives of the New Dawn, #189
Student Financial Aid News
+ Now on StreetIQ
+ Nice feedback from Eric Hansen at Syracuse
+ Overly aggressive student loan marketing – mortgage refugees
+ Be wary!
+ Note on PLUS loans, FAFSA, and school certification
+ http://www.parentplusloan.com>
+ http://www.privatestudentloans.com
+ Our press release is out but you heard it all here first
+ Brazos GLB court ruling – your personal information does not have to be really secure
+ Quick note from PHEAA – more money for grants!
Scholarship Update
+ Intel …

2/22: Scholarship money left on the table, interest rates, US Virgin Islands, Expert Interview with John Pearson, Hollow Horse, #188
Student Financial Aid News
+ Scholarship money that literally can’t be given away
+ From the Midweek News in Northern Illinois
+ Interest rate update
+ 91 day T-Bill up 10 basis points to 4.563%
+ Stafford in grace: 6.263%
+ Stafford in repayment: 6.863%
+ PLUS: 7.663%
+ Economist consensus: 5% in May on the Funds Rate
+ Market is already pricing in the next increase
+ 30 year bond reintroduced on February 9
+ US government needed 30 year bonds …

2/21: Illinois selling loans, PHEAA, Bad assumptions, scholarship keyphrase, PRWeb, Jobcast on interviewing, grubspoon, #187
Student Financial Aid News
+ Our press release is out! and doing well, too
+ Paidcasting? I’ll pass for now
+ Our web site is spruced up a little – check out FinancialAidPodcast.com
+ Illinois mulling sales of student loan portfolio to fund university projects
+ Pennsylvania wants laptops from PHEAA
+ Securitization of student loans is a one time thing at present loan volumes
+ Generates some cash now at the expense of more cash later down the road
+ Rates cannot change …

2/20: New Music Monday on the Financial Aid Podcast
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+ Matthew Ebel, Drive Away
+ Marina V, Guardian Angel
+ Granian, Mark My Words
+ Alice Marie, Madeleine
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+ Via the Podsafe Music Network
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