Podcast Listener: Question about financial aid
Christopher Penn: yessir
Podcast Listener: I will be taking Fall classes in September, and haven’t yet totally gotton all of the financial aid stuff together..
Podcast Listener: Is there some kind of financial aid out there other than loans besides grants and scholarships, I really want to use loans as the last resort
Christopher Penn: Scholarships and grants are about it, unless you find a company that can sponsor you; some companies have sponsorships for employees.
Christopher Penn: Other non-loan aid can include working for the university full time …

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FAP592: Expert interview with Matthew Cashdollar, Gardening Scholarship, newsletter, Natalie Gelman
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Inside Higher Ed: The National Association of College and University Business Officers plans to review its existing policies on the interaction between exhibitors and attendees at its annual meetings and to propose a set of “best practices” — and practices to be avoided — in the relationships between corporate vendors and colleges generally, the association’s top official said Monday.
+ In an interview published in Inside Higher Ed Monday, NYS AG Andrew …

How to Borrow Federal Student Loans Responsibly
It’s difficult to determine how much you should borrow to pay for a college education. College is definitely an investment in yourself, in your future, and countless statistics point to a college degree increasing your earnings power over time. The question is, just how much is too much, and how can you tell?
Most sources for responsible borrowing give relatively generic (but sound) advice – borrow what you can afford to repay, consult a financial planner, borrow only what you need, and borrow as little …

FAP591: Mortgage woes, NACUBO, creativity scholarship, mail bag, Munk
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+ Chronicle: The most popular giveaway at NACUBO among the numerous raffles and games of chance may be the iPhone. Or it could be the chance to play blackjack for a potential prize of a trip for two to Las Vegas. Or it could be the mountain bike. Or the $250 gift certificate to Whole Foods.
+ Those are among the prizes that are being given away to attendees at this year’s annual meeting of …

FAP590: Student Loan Television: CC Chapman Presents Kevin Reeves at Block Island
Accident Hash host CC Chapman makes a return to the Financial Aid Podcast with this music video of Kevin Reeves covering When Doves Cry.
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Reminders
+ Private student loans
+ Stafford loans | Other federal student loans
+ Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ FAFSA tutorials and free help
+ Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidNews.com.
+ The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication …

FAP589: College Access Marketing from NASFAA 2007 National Conference
Something different today. This is a video of the College Access Marketing session held at the NASFAA national conference in Washington, DC. Presented by Marcia Weston and Wendy Erisman.
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+ College Goal Sunday
+ NASFAA
+ College Access Marketing
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+ Private student loans
+ Stafford loans | Other federal student loans
+ Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ FAFSA tutorials and free help
+ Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidNews.com.
+ The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the …

Take a look at this cover letter preview for a customer service representative in my GMail:

Reading this, you’d think – WOW! This is going to be really good. Then you open the email to reveal:

What a missed opportunity to wow a hiring manager. Instead, this resume goes in the trash and gets deleted without ever being read.

FAP588: Things you can print, secrets of credit-based marketing, London Fox Orchestra
Student Financial Aid News
+ Inside Higher Ed: The National Education Loan Network is ending relationships with more than 100 alumni associations in which the lender, known as Nelnet, has paid them fees and, in some cases, a share of revenue in exchange for the right to market consolidated education loans to graduates of their institutions. The arrangements had come under scrutiny as part of the student loan investigation undertaken by New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. A Nelnet …

FAP587: 10 Strategies for Maximizing Financial Aid, Higher Education Reauthorization, Vegetarian Scholarship, Yo Yais
Student Financial Aid News
+ Chronicle: The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday that will set federal higher-education policy for the next five years, increasing federal student aid while cracking down on conflicts of interest in the student-loan industry.
+ The sweeping bill would reauthorize, or renew, the Higher Education Act, the law governing most federal student-aid programs. The House has yet to take up the legislation.
+ Before voting to pass the bill, senators adopted an amendment that …