Financial Aid Podcast 934: Everything you need for the holidays
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Record debt: College seniors who graduated in 2008 carried an average of $23,200 in student loan debt. Meanwhile, unemployment climbed from an already challenging 7.6 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to 10.6 percent in 2009 — the highest third-quarter rate for college graduates aged 20 to 24 this decade. The Project on Student Debt’s new report, Student Debt and the Class of 2008, and an interactive online map include debt levels for …

FAP932: Scholarship craziness, heavy metal Hanukkah, MASFAA 2009
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Why does college cost so much?
Merit based scholarships getting the axe.
Scholarship Update
Entertainment abounds in the results of our $10,000 scholarship. We hope to have a confirmed winner really soon.
In the meantime, our next $10,000 scholarship deadline is December 15.
Focus on Financial Aid
Notes from MASFAA.
Community colleges are seeing huge unprecedented enrollment numbers because of families’ financial situations
It is important for fin aid professionals to educate parents and help them understand why they may not qualify for aid
Personal …

FAP922: Social media scholarship, last minute financial aid, free stuff
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Student Financial Aid News
From Forbes Magazine:
“Most states have quasi-governmental agencies that monitor the status of federally subsidized student loans and administer loan forgiveness programs for those who follow certain career paths,” Forbes reports. “Many of these agencies temporarily foot the bill for loan forgiveness before being reimbursed by the federal government. But some have been using excess revenues and state government funds to create their own loan forgiveness benefits. Now, with loan markets in turmoil …

FAP921: FAFSA oversimplification, scholarship newsletter, gay chorus covers
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
FAFSA oversimplification and consequences.
Watching student loan company profits.
Scholarship cuts.
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FAP919: $10,000 Scholarship, Scholarship Points, Scholarship eBook
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Notes from College Goal Sunday.
Scholarship Update
Our new Scholarship eBook is out!
Today is the deadline for our $10,000 scholarship drawing.
Scholarship Points
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FAP918: Student loans, FAFSA changes, scholarship dailies
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FFEL termination
Perkins Loan changes
FAFSA changes
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FAP917: Diminishing student loans, IOU student aid, Twitter scholarships, Mystery song
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
US Bank exiting student lending.
An alternative student loan proposal.
Questionable issues at the FSA Ombudsman office?
California IOUs for student aid?
Scholarship Search
A refresher on using Twitter to find scholarships.
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With no show last Friday due to travel, I wanted to take some time to answer the mailbag rather than make people wait.
Carol writes:
I just read your e-book on finding scholarships. My son is finishing his sophomore year in HS. Is it really appropriate to be applying for scholarships now, when he hasn’t even applied yet to college and doesn’t know where he is going? I didn’t realize they awarded scholarships to younger students. Carol in NH
Even if the scholarships aren’t necessarily open, it’s a great idea to identify ones …

FAP913: Income based repayment, Canada, and free stuff
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
529 plans getting hammered.
Scholarship Update
Scholarships begging for applicants on MySpace.
In the interest of providing additional opportunities to potential students, the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges has once again moved the deadline for submission for a $1,000 or $5,000 Dade Medical College scholarship to June 30th, 2009. There is still more than $130K available for various programs of study at the Miami and Hialeah campuses of the college, including Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography, Diagnostic …

FAP912: National sales tax, student loan consequences, Rich Palmer
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Last Friday, the credit card bill was signed into law by President Obama. Farewell, student credit cards as we know them.
California’s kind of imploding, budgetarily-speaking.
Consequences of CCRAA and anti-FFEL legislation surfacing now.
Figuring out that you can’t spend what you don’t have, Congress looks at a national sales tax to make every part of your life 10% more expensive.
Scholarship Update
We’re nearing the end of the month. Make sure you’re a participating member of Scholarship …