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For college student Brandy Zapata, Kentucky Fried Chicken means more than finger-lickin' goodness. Winning a KFC scholarship can have more benefits than just paying for school. For Zapata, the Colonel's Scholars program offered her a chance to travel the world on a KFC scholarship. Her journey...

African-American students are still very much under-represented in America's colleges and universities, according to Yohuru Williams, vice president of the American Institute for History Education and associate professor of History at Fairfield University, in an e-mail interview with Money College....

I didn't worry about college financial aid when I was in high school but quickly found out that even though all my older siblings, and even my mother, got full financial aid packages, I did not qualify. Because our family size went down as kids grew up and my parents income increased, I had to work...