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Financial Aid Administrators Oppose New Preferred-Lender List Rule
23 April 08 06:01 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has asked the Department of Education to reconsider its interpretation of a new rule that requires colleges to have at least three student loan lenders that are not affiliated with each Read More...

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Choose the Best Lender for You
04 May 07 09:12 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A university’s financial aid office can and will recommend a private lender for students to work with— however, it is just that, a recommendation. The Higher Education Act mandates that schools can not require students to get loans through the preferred Read More...

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Students Have a Choice of Lenders, Colleges May be Required to Make that Clear
20 December 06 10:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

So, you get accepted to college, fill out your FAFSA, receive your SAR, and see that you can take out an unsubsidized Stafford loan and your parents can take out a PLUS loan. Well, what do you do now? You find a lender, and most students ask the financial Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, Department of Education, financial aid, Lending Disclosures, Next Student, NextStudent, Preferred Lenders, student loan consolidation, student loans