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Preparing For College
| So you've been accepted and the 529 plan was a big help. Now what? Navigate the waters of financial aid, textbooks and all the other expenses of getting an education. | Helpful Guides and
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A market-based solution to runaway student loan debt?
A Michigan-based university is offering loan repayment assistance to graduates in an effort to attract students to its programs. Spring Arbor University is a Christian liberal arts school with enrollment of about 4,000 students. The school is beginning its Loan Repayment Assistance Program this fall for incoming freshmen. They guarantee ...
Helpful new student loan repayment plan
Student loan debt is now nearly $1 trillion collectively for borrowers in the United States. Yet there's new repayment help on the horizon if you have federal loans.
New ways to pay down student loans
Student loan debt is now nearly $1 trillion collectively for borrowers in the United States. Yet there could be help on the horizon if you have federal student loan debt. Under the new Pay As You Earn repayment program, your monthly payments on federal loans will be capped at a ...
Get a four-year degree for $10,000
The state of Texas has come up with a solution to the high cost of college that I'm hoping will be a model for other states to follow. Despite what you may have thought of Gov. Rick Perry's presidential aspirations, he was on target with a promise he made in ...
Identity theft comes to the higher education classroom
The latest wrinkle in identity theft targets online and for-profit schools. The Arizona Republic reports there are financial aid fraud teams that assume false identities and go and enroll in expensive colleges. They take out the max in student loans, both federal and private, and then disappear with the money. ...
A degree is more valuable than ever
How much is a college degree worth? Time and time again, I have said that a college degree equals huge earnings over a lifetime, and it only goes up for graduate and professional degrees beyond the standard bachelor's degree. But some economists are now doing rebuttals to this viewpoint. A ...
The very best way to save for your kid's college
Looking to save money for your child's college education the Clark Smart way? There's a tax-free instrument for getting the job done that the consumer champ wants you to know about.
Charter schools win a victory in two more states
Voters in both Washington state and Georgia spoke out in favor of school choice on Election Day. The thing I love is that charter schools take the "one size fits all" mentality of public education and allow for continuous creativity and innovation. If one charter school is a stinker, it ...
Gift registries for college kids are becoming a big business
Gift registries for college kids are becoming a big business. But rather than buying your kid accessories for a dorm or apartment, I think you should be focusing on helping them decide what level of debt is reasonable for education. With these gift registries, students get to list the particular ...
Do not load financial aid onto a debit card
RIP-OFF ALERT: Some colleges are in cahoots with banks to dupe students into thinking they have to get their financial aid on high-fee debit cards. Universities used to view their relationship with students as being in loco parentis, which is Latin for in place of the parent. They knew then ...
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