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College Student Finance Guru Blogs His Way to Book Deal
06 January 09 02:04 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Zac Bissonnette is living the blogger’s dream, getting paid to write for TheDailyBeast.com and AOL’s WalletPop.com , and now landing a book deal that may be just the ticket for helping him weather a dismal job market in one of the worst recessions in Read More...

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Wachovia Suspends Its Undergraduate Private Student Loan Program
06 August 08 05:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

After posting an $8.9 billion second-quarter loss in July, Wachovia Corp. announced on Tuesday that, effective August 5, it would stop accepting applications for undergraduate private student loans. Read More...

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Top-Rated Colleges Drop SAT Requirement for Admissions Applicants
05 June 08 04:27 PM | Student Loan Girl | 2 Comments   

Smith College in Massachusetts and Wake Forest University in North Carolina recently joined the nearly 30 percent of all 760 four-year colleges and universities in the country that no longer require the submission of SAT or other standardized test scores Read More...

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Library Book Past Due: Loan Denied
26 December 07 11:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Chances are you have overdue library books laying around in your dorm room or apartment. Maybe the book you checked out six months ago has become a part of your décor—a handy paperweight on your desk or an unconventional coaster on your coffee table. Read More...

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Gone in a Puff of Smoke: College Campuses Cutting Out Smoking
23 November 07 07:31 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To smoke or not to smoke? That isn’t so much the question anymore as, Where art thou, Legally Sanctioned Smoking Area? And the answer to that is harder and harder to find as the number of smoking bans increases across both the country and college campuses. Read More...

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Say Goodbye to Town Hall and Hello to the World of E-Mediacy
29 August 07 06:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

First, there was Cindy Sheehan, the suburban mother turned political activist after her son died in Iraq. Then there was the CNN and YouTube joint foray into the presidential debates, with CNN televising all eight Democratic candidates debating questions Read More...

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