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Sallie Mae’s student loan proposal – a review.

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Are you working full time and going to school? It is more common now for students to work while they are obtaining their degree. And even more common is the use of financial aid and student loans to pay for their tuition. There can be a gray area about how much you are eligible to [...]

Daily Aid 114: Sallie Mae Federal Student Loan Proposal
Student Financial Aid News
From InsideHigherEd:
Sallie Mae (ticker: SLM), which as the country’s largest student loan provider has a lot to lose from the Obama administration’s proposal to eliminate the Family Federal Education Loan Program, is floating an alternative that would save the program but cut its costs [...]

Daily Aid 113: How to network at job events, FAFSA applications skyrocket
Student Financial Aid News
From the Chronicle:
Georgia’s public colleges can no longer afford to let entering freshmen lock in a tuition rate for four years, the state Board of Regents decided today. The regents voted unanimously to suspend the policy indefinitely, as of this fall, [...]

Since last October I have been beating that go back to school drum and it looks like you’ve listened. Yep, it’s 100% my doing that FAFSA filings are up 20.8% from the first quarter of 2009, which breaks down to over a million more applications from the first quarter of 2008 (6,586,007 to 5,449,774). But [...]

Daily Aid 112: Comparing private student loans and student credit cards
Student Financial Aid News
From the Chronicle:
College students are using credit cards more than ever before, according to a survey of private-student-loan applicants released today by Sallie Mae, the giant student-loan company. Students with credit cards have an average of 4.6 of them, the report says, [...]

Actually, technically it was April 12, but today’s close enough. Yes, the Financial Aid Podcast started on April 12, 2005.

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A Brief History of the Financial Aid Podcast
On April 11, 2005, I got a new PowerBook G4 and an iPod mini. With a desire to put legal stuff on my new iPod, I [...]

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