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FAP916: Student loan payment changes, online degrees

July 2nd, 2009 - Comments

FAP916: Student loan payment changes, online degrees

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Online degree effectiveness.

Decline in scholarship funding.

Student credit cards take another hit.

Scholarship Update

Congratulations to Karalynn Moran who won our $2,500 Scholarship Points award for June.

Operation Homefront.

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News You Can Use

Income Based Repayment kicks off.

Free Stuff Friday

RJO Futures commodities wall chart.

Cloud Star foldable water bowl.

10 free patriotic songs from Amazon.

Forbes magazine.

Caribou Coffee samples.

Sephora makeup kit.

M&Ms dispenser.

Free Song of the Week

All 5 service branch anthems.


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FAP915: FAFSA, GI Bill, Scholarship Points, Mail Bag, Free Stuff

June 26th, 2009 - Comments

FAP915: FAFSA, GI Bill, Scholarship Points, Mail Bag, Free Stuff

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Changes to the FAFSA.

Changes to Veterans benefits.

Scholarship Points Update

We’re getting ready to start revamping Scholarship Points. Add your thoughts about what’s working and what’s not. We’re going Seth Godin Tribes style here.

Also, Scholarship Points referral points awards will be going from 20 points per referral to 30 points.

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Scholarship Update

Scholarship seekers and Internet enthusiasts alike are going to love Microsoft’s newest campaign, Create Your own Internet PSA. Can you think of an affliction or problem that Internet Explorer 8 can solve? Can you create a really fun acronym for said affliction? Then you’re halfway there. Now you just need to film your own Public Service Announcement (PSA) and you’ll be entered for a chance to win a $2,500 scholarship!

Details at our free college scholarship search site.

Student Loan Network $10,000 scholarship.

Mail Bag

In the mail bag this week: Carol asks about scholarships. Marilyn asks about grad school. Jason asks about post-bac.

Free Stuff Friday

Free coffee at Borders.

Yoplait Whips.

Tasters Choice Coffee Stick.

Havaianas Flip Flops.

Digital Photo Pro Magazine and HD VIdeo Pro Magazine.

Kiplingers Personal Finance Magazine.

Redken 10,000 blondes hair dye giveaway.

$10,000 from the Student Loan Network.

Free Song of the Week

Whitney Steele, Last Love


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FAP914: Student credit cards, interest rates, Over Again

June 12th, 2009 - Comments

FAP914: Student credit cards, interest rates, Over Again

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Student loan consolidation and Treasury Bills

Scholarship Update

AORN Foundation Scholarship Program. To provide scholarships to students who are pursuing a career in perioperative nursing and to registered nurses who are interested in and committed to perioperative nursing to continue their education by pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in nursing or a
complementary field. The number of awards and amount of the awards will be determined annually. Awards are not renewable. The scholarships will be applied to educational expenses including tuition, fees and books. Winners will be required to submit grades and invoices for these allowable expenses corresponding to each semester no later than August 1, 2010.

Details at our free college scholarship search site.

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Eye on the Economy

Jobs and college degrees

News You Can Use

More details on student credit cards.

Free Stuff Friday

22 free songs from Nylon Magazine in iTunes

Quortek keychain flashlight

100 recycled business cards

Redbox and Picture Me 8×10 portrait

Esquire magazine

Quickbooks Starter Edition for Windows

Walmart and Tampax

Free Song of the Week

Rebecca Loebe, Over Again


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FAP913: Income based repayment, Canada, and free stuff

June 5th, 2009 - Comments

FAP913: Income based repayment, Canada, and free stuff

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

529 plans getting hammered.

Scholarship Update

Scholarships begging for applicants on MySpace.

In the interest of providing additional opportunities to potential students, the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges has once again moved the deadline for submission for a $1,000 or $5,000 Dade Medical College scholarship to June 30th, 2009. There is still more than $130K available for various programs of study at the Miami and Hialeah campuses of the college, including Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography, Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound, General Radiologic Technologist and more.

Details at our free college scholarship search site.

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News You Can Use

Income based repayment scaling.

Focus on Financial Aid

Oh Canada?

Free Stuff Friday

Burt’s Bees.

All National Parks. Visit such parks as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Rocky Mountain National Park for absolutely free from June 20-21 (Father’s Day weekend), July 18-19, and August 15-16.

Ending today: underwear from Victoria’s Secret.

Green Hill CD of easy listening.

Report cards for baseball cards.

A small can of smell from Glade.

Free Song of the Week

Douglas Spotted Eagle, Doolitsaada


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FAP912: National sales tax, student loan consequences, Rich Palmer

May 29th, 2009 - Comments

FAP912: National sales tax, student loan consequences, Rich Palmer

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Last Friday, the credit card bill was signed into law by President Obama. Farewell, student credit cards as we know them.

California’s kind of imploding, budgetarily-speaking.

Consequences of CCRAA and anti-FFEL legislation surfacing now.

Figuring out that you can’t spend what you don’t have, Congress looks at a national sales tax to make every part of your life 10% more expensive.

Scholarship Update

We’re nearing the end of the month. Make sure you’re a participating member of Scholarship Points, as we draw our $1,000 and $2,500 scholarships on or about May 31, 2009.

Also, I’m giving out to podcast listeners and followers a sneak preview of the 6th edition of Scholarship Search Secrets, our free eBook. This version has two new secrets that are relatively advanced, plus some edits and updates.

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Mail Bag

Mary on Twitter asked about the pros and cons of student loans

Free Stuff Friday

Garden gloves from Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Small coffee at Borders 5/28-5/31

Yogi tea sample

Sopapillas or a bowl of queso at On The Border

Lego Club Jr 2 year membership

Bottle opener from Blue Moon Brewing

From July 13th – July 17th, Baskin-Robbins is giving all Do Something members free Soft Serve.

MCA screwdriver set

Business card metal carrier

Free Song of the Week

Rich Palmer, It’s All Good


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+ Free college scholarships contests!
+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com
+ Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com
+ Graduate student loans at GradLoans.com
+ Private student loans available at any time - visit PrivateStudentLoans.com
+ FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com
+ The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network.

FAP911: Student credit cards, Congressional hearings, Jonathan Coulton

May 22nd, 2009 - Comments

FAP911: Student credit cards, Congressional hearings, Jonathan Coulton

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Goodbye, student credit cards.

A perspective on student loan programs.

Impending bank failures.

Scholarship Update

Google has a photo contest running. $7,500. Details at our free college scholarship search site.

Scholarship Points Instructions

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Special Report: The Student Loan Reform Congressional Hearing

How cool are you?

Notes and comments from the hearing.

Free Stuff Friday

Cycle Magazine

Quiznos

Garnier Moisturizer via Walmart

American Photo Magazine

Elizabeth Berg’s Year of Pleasures book

10,000 miles from United Airlines

It’s beyond funny. Runpee.com

Free Song of the Week

Jonathan Coulton, I Feel Fantastic


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+ Free college scholarships contests!
+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com
+ Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com
+ Graduate student loans at GradLoans.com
+ Private student loans available at any time - visit PrivateStudentLoans.com
+ FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com
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FAP910: Making money, free tuition colleges, student lending

May 15th, 2009 - Comments

FAP910: Making money, free tuition colleges, student lending

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

8 colleges with no tuition

Focus on Financial Aid

A compendium of our library.

Before College

Scholarship Search Secrets - eBook and video detailing how to use Google and other free tools to find scholarships

Finding Financial Aid - a short eBook outlining the overall financial aid process

Applying To College

FAFSA Guide eBook - a guide to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, with line-by-line help

How To Read Financial Aid Award Letters - a guide to decoding the award letter and determining what aid you’ll receive

In College

How To Find Cheap Textbooks - a guide to saving as much money as possible on expensive college textbooks

Personal Finance First Aid Kit - a guide to helping you manage your budget quickly and easily

After College

How to Write a Killer Cover Letter - a guide to an essential part of the job hunting process

Credit Card Debt Reduction Plan - a guide to reducing your credit card bills

All of our eBooks are free and free to distribute. If you know of any groups, organizations, clubs, or offices on campus that would especially benefit from these guides, please give them away.

Beer Money

Go make some money with other people’s free stuff.

Rant

Is college a lemon?

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Scholarship Update

The mission of the Ohio Travel Association Scholarship Grant is to foster the travel and tourism/hospitality related education of an Ohio student and thereby promote professionalism within the industry. A $1,000 scholarship will be granted to a qualified, full-time (12 or more credit hours) student after the completion of their freshman year (36 hours completed (quarter system)/30 hours completed (semester system) with a minimum 2.5 GPA) and may be renewed for the following two years. As part of the scholarship program, the recipient will be invited to various OTA events throughout the year. Deadline is June 15, 2009.

Details at our free college scholarship search site.

Plus our next $10,000 scholarship.

Free Stuff Friday

Kellogg’s All Bran

Bag of popcorn from Yahoo

Mobile phone case from Celltonica

Free album from Coldplay

Saturday, May 30 is free ice cream day at Walmart

Light smoothie at Orange Julius

CD from River Lee Jazz Band

DiGiorno Pizza Flatbread Melts

Free Song of the Week

Duwende, Young Leaders of Tomorrow


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+ Free college scholarships contests!
+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com
+ Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com
+ Graduate student loans at GradLoans.com
+ Private student loans available at any time - visit PrivateStudentLoans.com
+ FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com
+ The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network.

FAP909: End of Student Credit Cards, Student Loan enrollment

May 8th, 2009 - Comments

FAP909: End of Student Credit Cards, Student Loan enrollment

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Updated: a bug in the MP3 address has been fixed!

Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Amazon Kindle DX.

Elimination of Student Credit Cards

Scholarship Update

Check out our pile of featured scholarships!

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Focus on Financial Aid

Student loan enrollment status change

Never sign something you don’t understand.

Free Stuff Friday

Ringtonica Dental Floss

100 Free Applications for Mac OS X

Free Hellmans Mayonanaise

Energizer hearing aid sample

Dove hair care stuff

Head and Shoulders too

Staples Career Stimulus Program - 20 resumes and 40 business cards for free

Aerie free towel

Scrubbing Bubbles pack

Free Song of the Week

George Winston, Variations on Canon


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+ Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com
+ Graduate student loans at GradLoans.com
+ Private student loans available at any time - visit PrivateStudentLoans.com
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FAP907: Free scholarships book giveaway, Earth day free stuff

April 17th, 2009 - Comments

FAP907: Free scholarships book giveaway, Earth day free stuff

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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup

Scholarship Points Instructions

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News You Can Use

Mail Bag

Scholarship Update

Free Stuff Friday

Giveaway

The 17th Scholarship Points member who claims the code from today’s show will get a free copy of Scholarships 101, a book by Kim Stezala on finding scholarships. Great companion to our free Scholarship Search Secrets book.

Free Song of the Week

Road Trips

  • Podcasters Across Borders
  • NEDMA
  • National CGS
  • MarketingProfs

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FAP906: Parent loans, tax refunds, free stuff, Black Lab

April 10th, 2009 - Comments

FAP906: Parent loans, tax refunds, free stuff, Black Lab

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Breaking - the Department of Education has canceled PLUS loan auctions.

Through a notice in the Federal Register of March 3, 2009, the Department established an April 1, 2009 deadline for the submission of pre-qualification requests under the Competitive Loan Auction Pilot Program for Parent PLUS Loans, relating to loans to be made for loan periods beginning on or after July 1, 2009 and ending on or before June 30, 2011. In order for the auction to have been considered successful for any State, at least two lenders must have submitted pre-qualification requests for that State. However, the Department failed to receive two requests for pre-qualification for any State, and for the vast majority of States the Department received no requests at all. For this reason, the Department considers the purpose of the Competitive Loan Auction Pilot Program to have been frustrated, and it is canceling the auction that was scheduled to occur on April 15, 2009.

During the 2009-10 and 2010-11 award years, Parent PLUS loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program may be made by any eligible lender to parents of students attending eligible educational institutions in any State.

What does this mean for you? What was not a great idea has been canned. The reasons for a lack of bidding by lenders are pretty simple and boil down to an economy that makes lending tough under any circumstances, much less a lowest-bid war. To think that lenders would voluntarily try to reduce what little profit was left in the worst economic crisis in 75 years was the height of silliness.

Increased education tax refund and how to take advantage of it.

Student debt balloons up.

FICO scores and student loans.

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Scholarship Update

Jonathan Olson - University of Iowa did indeed win the Student Loan Network $10,000 scholarship. He said:

I have just returned to school to complete an undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science that I began long ago. I left my full-time job last August to pursue my education full time. With student loans racking up, this scholarship couldn’t have come at a more useful time.

Congratulations, Jonathan!

We’ve got $3,500 to give away this month. Enter to win at ScholarshipPoints.com.

News You Can Use

Managing your reputation online.

Free Stuff Friday

Big crop!

Ben & Jerry’s and Bare Naked Ladies give away 3 free songs.

Free Quaker Rice Snacks.

Huggies has some diapers.

Free toothpaste from Walmart.

Some free shampoo from Mizani.

Free eco-friendly grocery bag from Kroger.

Free bottle of ketchup.

Free Gillette body wash.

Free sunglasses case.

Free pile of my eBooks.

Ben & Jerry’s again - free cone day is April 21 from noon to 8 PM.

Free Song of the Week

Black Lab, See The Sun


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+ Free college scholarships contests!
+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com
+ Parent PLUS loans at ParentPLUSLoan.com
+ Graduate student loans at GradLoans.com
+ Private student loans available at any time - visit PrivateStudentLoans.com
+ FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com
+ The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network.