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Colleges some students should consider

Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Reecy

From The Denver Post 
Students and parents overwhelmed or discouraged by overhyped college rankings should look around for lesser-known alternatives. School counselors and education consultants say there are hundreds of colleges well worth considering, for reasons including specialized majors and incomparable locations. The following is a tiny sample of the possibilities: For the list of schools click here.
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Filed under: 11th Graders, 12th Graders, Campus Briefs, Future Transfer students

Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Georgetown & Penn offering Grant$ to high income families

Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Reecy

Reported by Linda K. Wertheimer - Boston Globe 
Some of the nation’s most elite colleges, trying to ward off perceptions that they’ve become unaffordable to even high-income families, are bolstering their financial aid packages by offering grants to students whose parents earn as much as $180,000 a year.
Officials at these colleges, where costs can run $50,000 […]

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Textbook controversy leads to Sacramento

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Reecy

Reported by Larry Gorgon - Los Angeles Times
The high price of college textbooks is a hot issue, not just among disgruntled students weary of spending more than $100 on an economics or a chemistry tome. In Sacramento political circles, efforts to lower those costs have produced two pieces of legislation that are competing for Gov. […]

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Univ. of Washington Husky Promise scholars beware of bait ‘n switch

Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Reecy

From a commentary by Mary Whitfield in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
This fall marks the first year of the University of Washington’s fantastic Husky Promise scholarship program, which provides full tuition assistance to the state’s poorest students and makes the dream of a UW education an achievable reality.
Sad to say, what the UW provides with one hand it […]

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California Dreamin’ - Legistature passes Dream Act

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Reecy

The Dream Act, which will have a huge impact on illegal immigrant students was passed and awaits Gov. Schwarznegger’s approval.  To read the entire document, click here.

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Montana colleges get clean bill of health in student loan scandal

Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Reecy

Reported by ENews 
A positive report for the Montana university system Thursday. This after a nationwide student loan scandal led Attorneys General across the country to investigate college lending practices in their own states. In a report released at Thursday Board of Regents meeting in Billings, Assistant Attorney General Pam Bucy says Montana’s financial aid officers […]

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Texas voters should consider Prop 2

Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Reecy

From an editorial in the Austin American-Statesman 
At a time when Texas students are relying more on loans to pay for college, the state’s pot of money for student loans is drying up. And if the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s loan program is not replenished soon, it will be nearly depleted by 2009. That would […]

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Oklahoma State needs additional financial aid to be competitive

Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Reecy

Reported by Susan Simpson in The Oklahoman 
Fall enrollment declined for the third consecutive year at Oklahoma State University, and officials said more financial aid and scholarships are needed to compete with the University of Oklahoma and out-of-state colleges.
Fall enrollment at OSU campuses in Stillwater and Tulsa total 23,005, down 302 students from the previous year.
That’s […]

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Wesleyan applicants should consider Early Decision

Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Reecy

Reported by Elyssa Pachico in The  Wesleyan Argus
As the University’s Nov. 15 Early Decision I (ED) deadline approaches, prospective Wesleyan students across the country begin what for many is a scramble to re-draft college essays and puzzle over the FAFSA. ED has recently come under criticism by peer institutions such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard, […]

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Connecticut taxpayers - there’s a deduction waiting for you

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Reecy

Connecticut residents have a tax loophole in their 529 Savings Plan.  Any taxpayer who sets up a Connecticut Higher Education Trust College Savings Program (CHET), regardless of income, or whether there’s a college or college-bound student in that household, can claim a $5,000 deduction on their state tax return.   Here’s how it works:
1.  If your filing status is […]

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