http://www.thehighschoolblog.com Get ready for college; how to get into the University of your choice and pay for it! Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:52:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many way that you can reduce your overall debt as a college student and being proactive about about how to manage what you will owe is one of the best ways to start. More than 50 colleges including elite private schools and flagship state universities in Virginia and ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=219 While a lot of kids are celebrating the arrival of summer and planning trips to the pool and beach, many students are heading back to school for the summer. If you are one of them, there is some good news for you! For the first time in the history of the ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=218 Here's another tale of success: one of his clients in San Diego, CA was accepted to UC Berkeley, but for the second semester.  The father, who had purchased How To Pay For College Without Going Broke, called for a free consultation and explained his daughter's distress at not being able to ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=217 If you've rec'd an unappealing award letter, guess what - it can be appealed!   Example:                                             Did you get a $5,500 guaranteed Stafford Loan?  If not, one awaits.   Did you get a Federal Work-Study Award.  If not, did you request one on the FAFSA?  If you didn't, correct your SAR and then ask ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=216 UPDATE FOR THE 2010-2011 FAFSA In just a few short days the new revised FAFSA will be available at www.fafsa.ed.gov   But don't carried away and submit it instantly!  Care should be taken to first qualify for maximum financial aid, before you submit your FAFSA.  We will be making suggestions and offering ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=215 ALL THE FINANCIAL AID IN THE WORLD IS USELESS WITHOUT THAT COVETED ADMISSION TICKET! Labor Day has come and gone and the serious business of applying to college awaits millions of students across the country.  SAT & ACT prep also continues at a feverish pace, and perhaps less schools will require ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=214 Now’s your chance to hear the creator of this blog, Reecy Aresty, live on WDEL 1150AM, Saturday, May 30th from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm.   Join Spencer Graves as he interviews Reecy and call 478-WDEL or toll free from downstate and out of Delaware 800-544-1150. For the past three ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=213 Reported by R.G. Ratcliffe in The Houston Chroinicle Texas' main college opportunity financial aid program would add tough academic standards and not just be based on a student's economic need beginning in 2010 under a plan approved Thursday by a state higher education governing board. The change in the Texas Grants program ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=212 Arizona colleges poised to raise tuition 10% plus! Reported by Anne Ryman in The Arizona Republicrent a car bulgaria Double-digit tuition increases could be in store for all undergraduate students at the University of Arizona and for new students starting in fall 2009 at Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. But students ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=211 A call by a panel of leading educators to replace the test with more telling measures is a watershed event Reported by Peter Sacks in Newsday "Society likes to think that the SAT measures people's ability or merit. But no one in college admissions who visits the range of secondary schools we ... http://www.thehighschoolblog.com/?p=210