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Despite Scoring Flaws, FFEL Least Expensive Federal Student Loan Program

Student loan observers were looking to the President’s budget to provide the first official numbers on the comparative costs of the two student loan programs, FFEL and Direct Loans (DL), since cuts to FFELP lenders and guaranty agencies passed last year. Read More...

Harvard’s New Financial Aid Plan: What Will It Mean Outside of Cambridge?

Last month, Harvard announced an overhaul of financial aid policies designed to make the school more affordable for families across the income spectrum. The new initiative focuses on ensuring greater affordability for middle- and upper-middle-income families Read More...

Beware of Blanket Statements on Student Lenders from Presidential Campaigns

Student lending companies have become a popular target for some on the presidential campaign trail this year. A couple of candidates have even gone as far as to say that they would like to get rid of the student loan companies altogether. Not surprisingly, Read More...

A Little Known Way to Pay for Graduate School

Did you know that in July of 2006 PLUS (Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students) loans, became available to graduate students to pay for their education? Many people don’t! In the past, there were limited choices for funding graduate school. If grad students Read More...

6 Programs that will Pay Off Your Student Loans

Did you know that there are organizations that will pay off all or part of your student loans? It seems too good to be true, but this little known tidbit is an absolute fact. Could one of these programs repay all or part of your student loans? #1 Charitable Read More...

As Democrats Tout PL 110-84 via You-Tube, Expert Questions Real Savings

Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee recently released a You-Tube clip to promote the “College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007,” PL 110-84. In addition to the popular Web site, the video has also been uploaded to the Committee’s Read More...