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Deadbeat Parents Who Won’t Help Pay for College

on February 27, 2012 in College Life, Financial aid, Money, Parents, Student Loans

I got an email over the weekend from a dad named Dan, who is darn proud of himself for making his children pay for their own college education. I don’t think he should be congratulating himself. In fact, he should be worried that the federal government will discover what his family is doing to get [...]

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Qualifying as an Independent Student

on October 27, 2010 in Financial aid, Money, Parents, Student Loans

I periodically get emails from teenagers, who are freaking out because their parents plan to contribute little if anything to their college education. Many of these kids are from affluent families, who could afford to kick in far more than they are planning. I don’t understand parents with good paying jobs who have no problem [...]

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Heck Yeah, It’s Hard to Qualify as an Independent Student

on February 26, 2010 in Admissions, College Life, Financial aid, Money, Other, Parents, Student Loans

It is hard to qualify as an independent college student when seeking federal financial aid. I wrote about this big hurdle recently in this post: Getting Financial Aid as an Independent Student Yesterday about four dozen students posted passionate comments on my blog after Chegg, the giant online source for textbook rentals, carried a post [...]

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Getting Financial Aid As an Independent Student

on January 15, 2010 in Admissions, Financial aid, Money, Parents

I periodically get emails from teenagers, who are freaking out because their parents plan to contribute little if anything to their college education. Many of these kids are from affluent families, who could afford to kick in far more than they are planning. I don’t understand parents with good paying jobs who have no problem [...]

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Qualifying for Financial Aid as an Independent Student

on August 6, 2009 in Financial aid

When can a student be considered independent for financial aid purposes? This is a question that a lot of families ask as they contemplate their huge college expenses. When I was back in St. Louis, my hometown, earlier this summer, my nephew Nick asked whether he could qualify for federal financial aid as an independent [...]

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