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‘Discriminatory’ UC Admissions Policy Angers Asian Community
03 April 09 01:58 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A new University of California admissions policy intended to increase the diversity of the school system’s student body may actually do the opposite, boosting the number of white students while decreasing the size of the Asian population. Read More...

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Experts Recommend: Fill Out Your FAFSA Early
02 January 09 04:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students who want to maximize their federal financial aid for the 2009–10 academic year should fill out their FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) this week — the first week applications are accepted, reports The Baltimore Sun (“ Ringing in Read More...

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GMAT Cheating Scandal Causes Students to Sweat Their Future
02 July 08 04:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Over 6,000 MBA students have been implicated in a huge cheating scandal involving the website Scoretop which illegally provided “live” prep questions to students taking their Graduate Management Admission Test , or GMAT — the test that many MBA programs Read More...

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Created Equal? The State of College Admissions
12 January 07 03:28 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

At one time the United States could point to the fact that it was the highest educated nation in the world. Unfortunately, it does not appear that low-income students are getting a fair piece of that pie. This is especially true when you consider that Read More...

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