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- College Aid for the Affluent
- You shouldn't automatically assume that your family's income will prevent you from qualifying for college financial aid. Some schools will actually be eager to offer you some cash in hopes of enticing your son or daughter to enroll. You just need to know the rules... If your family pulls in...
- Articles 2009-03-16
- The Secrets of Financial Aid
- If you think your income is too lofty for your child to qualify for college financial aid, think again. Your college savings fund has gone down, down, down, but the cost of tuition just keeps going up. Does this mean you'll be forced to dig deeper to send off your...
- Articles 2009-03-16
- Financial Aid for Those Not in Financial Need
- Think your income is too high for your child to qualify? Not so fast. Colleges do set aside grants specifically for well-off students. College Buzz Executive Director Rick Grisel shares smart ways seniors can increase their chances of qualifying for merit aid.
- Videos 2009-05-27
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- Crash Course on College Aid
- The more you know about how colleges on your child's list dole out financial aid, the better your chances of receiving some. You'll want to do a few calculations and a little detective work. And don't be afraid to have a conversation with each school's loan office... The first rule...
- Articles 2009-03-05
- Four Questions to Ask a College Counselor
- Can your teenager's high school counselor help you shrink the cost of college? I have my doubts. In my last post, I explained that many well-meaning counselors don't have the financial acumen to pull this off. Â Before putting too much faith in a counselor's advice, ask these...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- USET earns new EPA merit award for aid to small tribes to meet water standards
- Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-15-2000 USET earns new EPA merit award for aid to small tribes to meet water standards ONEIDA, N.Y. - The fight to improve drinking water in Indian communities is earning national recognition for the United South and...
- Research articles 2000-11-15
- College Admission Season: Will Money Talk?
- Are rich teenagers going to catch a break in this year's college admission season? It's a question that admission directors are skittish about discussing. No college wants to admit that it will reject more needy students so they can embrace the affluent applicants. It...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Median increase for aid: 2.4%
- The median amount of financial aid given last year at 41 public flagship universities rose 2.4% from the previous year, a USA TODAY survey shows. But the percentage of students getting aid held steady for a third year. The analysis of 67 schools includes 41 that reported financial aid...
- Research articles 2005-10-05
- American Red Cross Presents Certificate of Merit Award to Major James Cusic III; Award Recognizes First Aid, CPR Heros
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Each year, the American Red Cross trains nearly 12 million people in lifesaving skills such as first aid, CPR, the use of an automated external defibrillator, water safety and lifeguarding. On September 11, Major James Cusic III, USAF, called on his Red Cross...
- Research articles 2002-10-07
- Rite Aid Responds to Florida Attorney General's Lawsuit
- CAMP HILL, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 22, 1999-- The filing of a lawsuit against Rite Aid by the Florida Attorney General today was not unexpected. The Florida Attorney General has sought to extract a settlement from us without being able to point to any law that was violated. Not one...
- Research articles 1999-09-23
- Academic Senate urges UC to drop aid program
- University of California faculty continued its assault on National Merit Scholarships on Wednesday, with the influential Academic Senate recommending that campuses end their participation in the prestigious program. The committee, meeting in Oakland, voted 17-0 to uphold an earlier recommendation by a faculty subcommittee that urged campuses...
- Research articles 2005-06-23
- Massachusetts Governor Details Plan to Aid Troubled Schools.
- By Frank Phillips, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 29--Saying he is "very, very troubled" over educational achievement gaps, Governor Mitt Romney wants to encourage underperforming school districts to improve by offering them full-day kindergarten, greater leeway in firing...
- Research articles 2003-10-29
- The Best Places to Find College Cash
- Private college scholarships are overrated. Sure it would be nice to win a private scholarship, but the big money comes from colleges themselves which tend to dispense merit awards like Tic Tacs. You're more likely to shrink the cost of college if you search for schools that...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Scoring a College Athletic Scholarship
- College athletic scholarships are less generous and harder-to-get than you think. Consider the Long Odds Goal: Be realistic about where your kid can play college sports. ...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- Why Athletes Have an Edge at Elite Colleges
- Division III colleges are not allowed to give athletic scholarships. But athletics can help your kid get dough anyway. The D-III Play Officially, financial favoritism for athletes at D-III schools is strictly forbidden. NCAA rules prohibit D-III schools from awarding...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- 10 Generous Colleges for Braniacs
- Here's bad news for teenage braniacs: It's getting harder to cash in on a National Merit Scholarship. The competition for these awards has always been brutal, but some schools are no longer willing to award merit finalists with scholarships. The program's latest drop out is the University...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- The Myth About College Scholarships
- Have you nagged your teenager yet about finding college scholarships? You've probably heard that billions of dollars in college scholarships go unclaimed every year. Or maybe it's hundreds of millions. Whatever the number is, you just know that a ton of money is out there waiting for...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Take the College Scholarship Quiz
- How much do you really know about winning a college scholarship? Take this scholarship quiz to find out: 1. In recent years, the number of affluent students who receive merit scholarships from state and private universities has been increasing. A.   True. B.   ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Catch Up on College Savings
- With no college savings plan in place for their younger daughters, John and Michelle Kazanjian need to start investigating scholarships and community colleges. Fortunately for their parents, the older Kazanjian girls have won generous grants:...
- Articles 2009-09-04
- Six Great College Websites
- When I Googled "college," today, I got 681,000,000 hits. If I spent one minute on each of these websites, it would take more than 129 years to visit them all. And by then my great-great-great grandchildren would probably be ready for college. The amount...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
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