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Number of Students With Unpaid Tuition Bills Growing
13 January 09 04:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
Colleges and universities all across the country are seeing larger numbers of students who may soon be forced to drop out of college due to unpaid bills, according to a recent survey (“ Unpaid College Tuition Bills Rise, Survey Finds ,” U.S. News & Read More...
NextStudent to Be Spotlighted at Largest Virtual College Fair
10 July 08 09:06 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
Don Fenstermaker, the founder and CEO of NextStudent, will join noted names Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, and Kim Clark, senior writer for U.S. World & News Report, as one of only a few financial aid experts to give a live streaming video keynote presentation on college financing at today’s CollegeWeekLive event. Read More...
New SAT Policy Gives Students Control Over What Scores Colleges See
26 June 08 05:32 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   
A new SAT scoring policy will give high school students the option to show only their best SAT score to college admissions officers and to prevent these school officials from seeing test-scores that were less-than-stellar. Under the new policy, which Read More...
Word to the Wise on New Loan Forgiveness Programs: You May Not Qualify
10 June 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   
College students looking to relieve their federal student loan debt “will be sorely disappointed” with the government’s new loan forgiveness programs that will begin in 2009, according to an article in U.S. News & World Report (“ The Problem with Read More...
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...
Availability of Federal Perkins Student Loans Is Dwindling
13 April 08 10:28 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
A growing shortage of funds in the federal Perkins student loan program could affect as many as 50,000 students in the upcoming academic year, according to a recent article in U.S. News & World Report . Students who would have been eligible to receive Read More...
Student-Ranked Top Colleges and Other Tools to Help You Find the Right Fit
22 November 07 08:38 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
If you’re in high school and looking ahead to college, you probably already know all about U.S. News & World Report ’s annual “ America’s Best Colleges ,” which ranks colleges and universities around the country. These rankings can give you a great Read More...
America’s “Best” Colleges of 2008: Strategies for College-Bound Students to Compose Their Own List
23 August 07 04:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
Once again, U.S. News & World Report ’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort Read More...
Fake Data From U.S. News & World Report’s College Rankings?
15 March 07 03:25 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
In the past few years, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding U.S. News & World Report ’s yearly college issue, “America’s Best Colleges” and the rankings of the colleges. Many are saying the rankings and the methodology used are inaccurate Read More...
U.S News Rankings Affect State College Funding?
07 March 07 04:37 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   
It goes without saying that the media tend to influence public opinion, if not in large part shape it. A case in point is the ranking of colleges in U.S. News & World Report. According to a March 2, 2007 article by Elia Powers titled “ A U.S. News Read More...

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