All Posts Tagged With: "college"
College-Bound Kids Better Start Securing Financial Aid
Many seniors in high school are just starting to hear about their admissions to college and universities around the country. It’s an exciting time for many families but also a time of significant worry when it comes to financing that higher education. For those who have not been guaranteed a full scholarship to their choice [...]
Is it Possible to Live a Life with No Credit?
In today’s society, we are inundated with commercials showing us how great life can be if only we bought this kind of car, had this type of appliances in the kitchen, or the thousands of other products on the market we probably just do not need. Most of the “must-have” items consumers will purchase do [...]
More Options for Working Moms
U.S. Census data shows that there are more than 8.3 million single moms in the country, and only 15% of them have college degrees. Due to the low percentage of college degrees among single moms, only 28 percent of working single moms earn more than $40,000 per year. If you consider the schedule of a [...]
Avoid Default When Struggling With a Student Loan
As college becomes more expensive and college loans become a larger debt than expected, there are ways to keep your head above water and not default on your student loan. Graduating from a great school does not always guarantee a great job with a comfortable income. Sometimes that comes years later but student loan repayments [...]
Free Money for College Part 5: Alternative Education Options
In this final article of its five-part series, I go over little known options for financing education, as well as cheaper options no often considered when choosing colleges. By being fully cognizant of all of your options, you may find your college degree costing a fraction of the “usual” college fees, and all without having [...]
Free College Money Part 4: Searching for Scholarships
NOT JUST FOR HONOR STUDENTS In Free College Money Part 3 of this five-part series, college grants were defined as “a gift of money…not a reward that you have to pay back or compete for…” Unlike grants, you do have to compete to win scholarships and they are awarded based on prearranged criterion, creativity and [...]
Free College Money Part 3: Hundreds of Grants
The definition of a college grant is a gift of money given expressly for the purpose of attending a qualified educational institution. It is not a reward that you have to pay back or compete for, it is simply given to an applying student based on whether or not they meet the qualifying criteria. While [...]
What to Do When You Can’t Afford to Pay for College Anymore
There’s a statistic that any given freshmen class will lose 10% of its students each semester of college. By the 4 or 5 years you’re at college, chances are you’ll be going to school with very few of the same people that you started college with. People drop out for a number of reasons. They [...]
25 Realistic Ways to Spend Less and Save Money in College.
If there’s ever one point in one’s life where they learn the most about money, it certainly has to be college. Most college students have and earn next to nothing, so they have to make the most of what they have. They wisely take tips from upperclassmen who have figured out all of the great [...]
How to Pay for College (Even When it Costs $20,000 a Year).
Going to college can be a great use of four or five years of your life and it can propel your career forward or it can be a complete waste of money if you go for all the wrong reasons. If you decide that college is the right thing for you and want to go, [...]
Colleges Caught Red Handed Taking Kickbacks from Banks
If you want to market a product to college students, it only makes sense that you go to a college to do it. There are many perfectly legitimate opportunities to market to college students, but many banks and colleges have had backdoor deals in which the college would only tell students about student loans from [...]
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