The easiest thing students can do to earn free money for college is get good grades and test well on the standardized tests (SAT/ACT). Now this doesn’t start when your student is in the middle of their senior year of high school. Start good grades when you are a Freshman in high school. Yeah-yeah I […]

Financial Aid Scammers pop their foul heads up again   It is bad enough that students and parents are bombarded every which way with college admissions, essays, and financial aid. Now parents and students need to keep their antennas up for shady criminals.   Lets call them what they are low down dirty thieves, crooks, […]

By J.D. Wyczalek Remember the line in the hit movie Jerry Maguire “Show me the money!” There is also an old adage why do thieves rob banks, because that is where the money is. In the whole college financial aid game (and yes it is a game with players, winners and losers) in this game […]

I bet you’ll be surprised about how student loans REALLY work.  Here’s what I mean. On Monday, NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a settlement with the College Board over its former loan practices. That’s right, that’s the same College Board that tortures high schoolers with the SAT, the CSS/Profile financial aid form and other […]

State offers $1 million in aid to low-income students By:Philip Haldiman, Dec 3, 2008 (see J.D.’s comments at the end of this article.) Low-income college and university students just received another financial-aid opportunity from the state. Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that $1 million in new financial-aid funding from the U.S. Department of Education will […]