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Financial Aid

1. Press: For-profit colleges’ deceptive recruiting tactics
   Congressional officials on Wednesday identified 15 for-profit colleges where recruiters allegedly encouraged investigators posing as prospective students to commit fraud on financial aid applications or misled them about such matters as tuition costs and potential…
2. Press: For-Profit colleges draw big revenue from vets
   When Congress moved in 2008 to sweeten tuition payments for veterans, it was celebrated as a way to ensure that military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could go to college at no cost and…
3. Press: For kids set for college, time to fill out FAFSA
   Faced with epic budget deficits, states are cutting costs any way they can, and state grants for college students aren’t escaping the knife. Some states have reduced the size of awards, some have tightened eligibility…
4. Press: Financial aid tools for college-bound
   Yippee. Your child got into his or her college of choice — several, in fact. Now what?  Usually, the jubilation turns into frustration as you try to compare the financial aid the various schools are…
5. Press: Burden of college loans grows
   debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college and a growing share borrow money to do…
6. Press: College students face stiff competition for financial aid
   f worries about paying for college disrupt your sleep, here’s news that will keep you up until dawn: More students than ever are competing for a shrinking pool of financial aid. Several states have reduced…
7. Press: How U. of Charleston cut tuition 22%
   After seeing enrollment decline for the first time in a decade, the University of Charleston, in West Virginia, slashed tuition by 22% for the upcoming school year hoping to entice more students. The school, which…
8. Press: How we cut college costs
   Pay for college and get a trip to Hawaii? Six college students and their families share strategies for cutting the cost of higher education.