February 2007 - Posts
Considering Graduate School? Education Testing Service (ETS) announced that it has completed the most significant revision of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in the test’s 60 year history. The revisions for the GRE General Test as well as the eight GRE
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The president sent his Fiscal Year 08 budget request to Capital Hill this week and again, called for the complete elimination of the Federal Perkins Student Loan Program. This campus-based program provides low-interest loans to undergraduate, graduate,
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Today’s students are much less interested in attending colleges surrounded by lush rolling hills, cows grazing and miles of undeveloped land. College officials have begun creating small cities out in the country, building condos, apartments, stores, restaurants
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According to ABC News, Oklahoma Wesleyan University is auctioning off a year’s tuition, room and board on eBay. The bidding started last Saturday and will end this Saturday. As of 11:00 pm on Saturday, bidding reached $4,425, a far cry from the $23,000
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Two articles on the attitudes of students toward debt caught our attention yesterday. We all know of the students who seem to live by a two word motto when it comes to personal finance—“charge it!”—but there are many students out there who remain committed
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USA Today and ABC News collaborated on a series of stories this past year, “Young and in Debt”. These stories focused on the affect debt can have the lives of twentysomethings. They paired Generation Y members with financial planning professionals to
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