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Coming Soon: A New Way to Find Student Financial Aid
12:00PM 4/06/2011
Last month we wrote about the Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge, a national competition organized by MTV, the College Board, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to re-imagine and simplify the college financial-aid process by using digital tools. The submissions were winnowed...
Applying for financial aid is a byzantine process that frustrates even the smartest whiz kid. Now there's a contest geared toward finding new ways toward simplifying the process -- and you get to vote on the idea you think is best.
The Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge is a national...
Aid to Low-Income Students Puts State's Budget to the Test
12:00PM 2/23/2011
Indiana's 21st Century Scholars program has become a victim of its own success. It promises full college tuition for low-income middle school students who pledge to stay out of trouble, maintain a cumulative 2.0 GPA and graduate from high school.
And it works, academically: Participants are more...
There are ways to win scholarships, even if you speak Klingon or have so-so grades. The secret is to find scholarships that are right for you, then prepare and apply.
With more than 50 million people using his Fastweb scholarship-matching site over the past 15 years, creator Mark Kantrowitz seems...
Jobs Scarce for Lawyers With the Lesser Degree
11:31AM 2/09/2011
Like many law students, Nadia M. thought it went like this: You graduate, then you practice law.
But two years after earning a degree from Loyola University School of Law in Chicago and passing the bar exam, she's yet to land steady work with benefits. Despite networking aggressively, hunting for...

A new book, written by a pair of sociology professors, says most students aren't learning much of anything in college -- and they're not studying nearly as much as they once did. If fact, those students might even do better, academically, if they work during college.
Never Too Early to Look for College Scholarships
9:00AM 12/22/2010
Is it ever too early to start searching for college scholarships? Probably not.
Once in high school, if you are serious about college, your scholarship search should begin. You don't need to have any idea of what college you plan to attend, nor do you need to know what you want to study in...
We've all been told that a requirement of success now is a four-year college degree, at the very minimum. But Peter Thiel disagrees. That idea, says the PayPal co-founder, is so 20th century, that the self-made billionaire plans to award cash grants of $100,000 to college students -- if they'll...
Your mother always told you to stop playing Nintendo and study, but little did she know that your gaming skills would eventually pay off ... literally. Now middle-and-high school students, 13 and older, can play games to earn scholarship cash for college. Marketing executive Angelo Tartaro's...
Ivy League colleges affordable for low income families
11:00AM 10/22/2010
Too many low-income families discourage kids from applying to Ivy league schools out of fear that they cannot afford it. They don't realize that many Ivy League and high-end schools make sure the student doesn't have to fork over any more than they would at any public college. In fact, low-income...
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