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FAP831: Need based financial aid, Free Stuff Thursday
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Inside Higher Ed: A shift back to need-based aid isn’t hurting at least two colleges. In the last few years, some colleges have pulled back from the policies everyone else says they’d like to pull back from. Notably the sky hasn’t fallen (and neither have their admissions numbers). Consider the cases of Hamilton College, which completely eliminated merit aid to spend more on need-based aid, and of Tufts University, which imposed …

Last night, I made a brief appearance on WCVB 5 about the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority story that’s been all over the Boston media.
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Tune into today’s Financial Aid Podcast episode to learn what you should be doing if your lender discontinues service.

FAP747: Free music video from Matthew Ebel
Free Stuff Friday
+ Since I’m still on vacation, I thought I’d make downloadable this music video I shot last weekend of Matthew Ebel singing at AS220 in Providence.
+ There’s a YouTube version as well.
+ From the album Beer & Coffee by Matthew Ebel
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