3 days ago by Dr. StrangeCollege

No matter how much you may read about how to complete online applications — whether the Common App, the CSS Profile, the FAFSA, or a college-specific application — they still require hands-on learning. You need to jump in and start working through them to understand how to complete them. I recently ...

4 days ago by danhfriedman

This Saturday and Sunday is the 16th annual College Goal Sunday & Saturday event, so start nagging your high school student now. Text them: U have to be awake @ noon Sat and/or Sun. It takes place in locations statewide from 2-4pm to provide students and their families with professional assistance i ...

4 days ago by Andrea Aronson

What happens if your financial aid award isn’t enough? You can try to appeal the package directly with the school’s financial aid office. Financial aid officers can exercise something called Professional Judgment (PJ). This enables them to make adjustments to the data elements on the FAFSA and there ...

7 days ago by Ash M. Monty

(This what they want us to see) (all rights reserved to CollegeBoard, co. I do not own this emblem) (But I bet their employees have this!) Also property of him and J.K. Rowling Right now, at this moment, I am preparing myself for a world of trouble by scooping the last bit of ice cream leftover from ...

10 days ago by Doug Schantz

The following is a guest article provided by J. Randy Green, Director of Financial Aid at Wittenberg University As part of ongoing efforts to improve the higher education financial aid delivery system, the IRS and Department of Education are working together within the FAFSA application process. Tha ...

11 days ago by Troy Onink

Want a rare look behind the scenes of the financial aid office at a top university to hear how it's done, how they calculate your aid eligibility, look at your finances on using the FAFSA and CSS Profile, listen to unusual circumstances and award students financial aid dollars? Search no more, here ...

11 days ago

Allen West (R-Fla.) attracted the attention of Taitz after telling a crowd over the weekend that Obama and Democrats should take their ideas and "get the hell out of the United States of America." "We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Allen West (R-Fla.) told POLITICO he is “a huge Allen West ...

11 days ago

Allen West (R-Fla.) is backing away from comments he made over the weekend telling Democratic leaders to "get the hell out of the United States of America." "I don't get it. I mean, I don't understand what you're saying, you're telling Obama and Harry Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) was a guest on Soledad ...

11 days ago

Get ready for the all new GOP, under the lead of Mitt Romney. It's a GOP where the Tea Party won't be welcome, where the federal government will continue to bailout out banks and unions and everyone who's anyone will Allen West (R-Fla.) is backing away from comments he made over the weekend telling ...

11 days ago

Ed Schultz opened his program tonight with a segment of Republicans behaving badly– from RNC Chair Reince Priebus to Arizona governor Jan Brewer to Rep. Allen West. Schultz and his guests, Melissa Harris-Perry and by Andrew Abramson | January 29th, 2012 WEST PALM BEACH — Lost in Herman Cain's surpri ...