tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102686702009-07-06T17:33:05.745-05:00A COLLEGE PLANNING RESOURCEMcLaughlin Education Consultinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13029224643504584655headforcollege@netzero.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10268670.post-42319435959300380062009-07-06T16:53:00.004-05:002009-07-06T17:33:05.755-05:002009-07-06T17:33:05.755-05:00

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Credit Union Student Choice has contracted with 82 credit unions across the country to offer private student loans filling the void in the private loan industry created by banks and other traditional student loan lenders exiting the market in the last two years. Typically lenders have relied on the secondary market to sell a portfolio of some

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This past spring you were placed on a Wait-list at your top college choice and have made plans to attend another college. You've made the required deposit, are preparing for orientation, have been emailing your soon to be roommate(s) and generally getting g more excited about college life. Then over the summer you receive an unexpected call from your first choice college offering you admission

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You have been placed on a Wait-list at your top college choice and have made plans to attend another college: made the required deposit, are preparing for orientation, have been emailing your soon to be roommate(s) and generally getting g more excited about college life. Then over the summer you receive an unexpected call from your first choice college offering you admission for the fall. You’re

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Have you ever wondered, just what your Financial Aid Administrator was thinking? Especially once you received your financial aid award. I have worked for 20 yrs as a financial aid administrator and can take you inside the mind of the FAA.I can tell you that FAAs are a dedicated lot that see their mission as assisting students to attain their academic goals through financial aid, while keeping

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The applications, recommendations, and SAT/ACT scores have been submitted. School visits and admissions interviews have long been completed. Meanwhile, high school seniors have begun the waiting game. They are waiting anxiously for the hopefully thick envelope in the mail confirming their acceptance to their top colleges.While students are expecting to read the words “…pleased to inform you that

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Private colleges see applications decline Interactive graphic - News

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At this time of year parents are pulling together their 1040s, W-2 and other financial paperwork as they get ready to settle down and prepare their federal and state tax returns. It is also the time that parents of college bound students should also prepare their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). It is the perfect time to prepare your child's FAFSA, as much of the income and asset

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Boston College has become the latest New England College to increase funding for financial aid. Losses in the college's endowments require the increase be achieved by cutting costs campus wide. Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, and Boston University have taken similar steps earlier this year.

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If you are considering applying to college, add a review of your Facebook or MySpace profile to your to- do list. While employers have been checking the online profiles of job applicants for a number of years, a Kaplan survey this fall indicated that college admissions officers are beginning to visit the social networking websites of applicants for admissions. Kaplan surveyed 320 admissions

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The current economic crisis may have students and families thinking that a college education is out of grasp. But before you give up on your plans to pursue a college education consider the following strategies: 1) Develop A College Funding Plan--- College planning really is a family undertaking. Families should be having open and honest discussions about college plans, career interests, what the

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MEFA, the Massachusetts Education Financing Authority, announced yesterday that it is once again offering private education loans to families. MEFA has secured $400 million in funds through the sale of bonds.The press release states that with this sale of bonds, MEFA has "completed the most significant private student loan transaction made without state credit support since September of 2007.

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Yesterday the House passed an extension of the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, HR 6889, by a vote of 368 to 4. The act which was signed in to law early this summer by President Bush, was a response to the impact the credit crisis has had in the past year on student loan companies and the fear it would effect the availability of student loans through the Federal Family Education

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Senator Obama provides a broad overview of his plans for education and responds to plans put forth by Senator McCain in a recent speech he gave in Ohio.

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Since the beginning of this year student loan companies have struggled to react to the effects of the auction rate securities (ARS) failures that have made it more difficult to secure funding. Lenders have successfully used ARS in the past to raise capital each year in order to have available funds for students loans. In addition, federal legislation has reduced the fees that are paid to lenders

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The current credit crisis has led to new stories suggesting students and parents looking to finance college tuition next fall could have trouble finding a lender. It is true that a number of lenders have either exited the student loan industry, while some are temporarily suspending participation in some federal student loan programs (Stafford, PLUS, GradPlus and Consolidation loans) or private

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Student loans have been a topic of news stories for months leading to questions and confusion regarding federal student loans and private alternative loans.To eliminate that confusion, students and parents should have some basic understanding about the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FFDLP) and private loan industry. I 'll review the FFELP

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