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Hey!  Tonight let’s continue our financial aid discussion with a talk about scholarships and grants.   These are absolutely awesome aid types because you don’t owe anything later.  We in the financial aid biz call this gift aid. All-aboard the free money train. Some scholarships… Scholarship money is provided by schools (ask your financial aid office) and [...]

Hey guys!  Usually there would be an earlier post to read that starts by wishing everyone a happy weekend.  But there was a very important wedding on Saturday!  So, happy end-of-weekend; try to avoid a bad case of “The Mondays.”  Any who, tonight we’re going to talk a bit more about scholarships, honing in on [...]

You’ve done it.  You finished high school and decided to pursue higher education (a wise move, given stringent requirements for good jobs and the sore lack of them these days).  But there’s still a monkey on your back, and you wonder how to pay for college.  True, education is a HUGE investment, but there are [...]

And so it begins: college life.  Hopefully you took as much from your years in high school as you could—learning as much as possible, asking questions and taking the time to realize that high school prepares you for a more demanding academic load.  That next step, a college education, as one school puts it, “prepares [...]

Scholarships can be won for many different reasons: academic excellence, athletic skills and even for taking a survey.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg, however.  For your amusement, and hopefully your benefit, here are 5 truly weird scholarships.  Hey, there’s something for everyone. Tall Clubs International Scholarship.  Being tall means more than reaching high [...]

Each year, thousands of students flock towards the countless scholarship opportunities made available to them.  These scholarships more often than not require certain things from applicants—an outstanding GPA, lengthy and absolutely grueling essays or enrollment in a specific academic program/major.  You can skip right over these limiting requirements with a select few easy scholarships that [...]

Let’s face it, we could all use some help getting everything in order for college.  Well, some schools have college financial advisors. Advisors can help students and families through the financial aid process and in finding college funds. Seeking help for application filing or to better understand the aid process ensures greater accuracy on your [...]

There are scholarships for just about everything under the sun…academic achievement, athletic prowess, membership to certain groups, etc.  Financial aid is such a complex animal, however, and it has even been set up along ethnic lines.  You may find, in your financial aid search, scholarships that require applicants to be of a specific ethnic origin.  [...]

College is rough, and whether you’re a first year student or a veteran college-goer just looking to expand your financial aid options, you want to know what’s out there.  Totally understandable–the less you have to pay for school the better.  Let’s skim over a few of the more conventional, well-known aid forms, and then dive [...]

Loans, grants, scholarships.  The Big 3 of financial aid, and about the quickest financial aid overview possible.  Several options are available to students, but how do you pinpoint the best direction to go?  The easiest answer is to go with free money.  So that leaves us with grants and scholarships as the best financial aid. [...]

So you want to go to college and know that there are funds available, but you want to know, “What specifically is out there for me?”  This question taps into the different types of financial aid offered for undergraduate students.  At the most basic level, you have your free aid and you have aid that [...]

OH MY GOSH IT IS HOT.  That really needed to be said, and hopefully you’ve either been splashing in the water or enjoying the A/C in your house this week.  Spending time in an air conditioned house is great for cooling off, but there’s only so much to do when you’re cooped up all day.  [...]

Hey everyone!  We’re in the heat of summer here these days, and between the cookouts and parties, parents and new freshmen looking to the future have financial aid for college on the brain.  The hard truth is that while we keep our chins up and push forward, the economy is still down.  Many families have [...]

Did you know that the average difference between in-state tuition and out-of-state tuition at the nation’s top 50 national universities is over $13,000?! This can make a huge difference when financing your education with student loans, especially if the out-of-state school is not offering financial aid for out-of-state students, such as grants or scholarships. Since [...]