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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...

Filed under: ACT, ACT test, college, College Admissions, College Board, college loans, entrance exams, FairTest, LA Times, Lucia Graves, NextStudent, SAT prep, SAT test, SAT test policy changes, standardized tests, student loans, test score reporting, U.S. News & World Report

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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Filed under: College Data, College Rankings, Council on Independent Colleges, Education Conservancy, NextStudent, Sarah Lawrence College, U.S. News & World Report

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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