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What Is the Best Student Loan?

What Is the Best Student Loan?

on June 1, 2011 in Money, Student Loans

What is the best student loan? I got an email from a dad who was hoping to get the answer to that question. His son needs to borrow for the last year of college. That was an easy question to answer. The best education loan available is the federal Stafford Loan. There are two types [...]

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17 Ways to Reduce Your Dependence on College Loans

17 Ways to Reduce Your Dependence on College Loans

on April 13, 2011 in Money, Student Loans

How can reduce your dependence on college loans? Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid and FastWeb, sent me this article today that includes his suggestions on how families can reduce their dependence on college loans. I couldn’t resist adding some links to college blog posts that I’ve written on the same topics. Here is Mark’s [...]

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Stafford Loans: Borrowing for College

on March 22, 2011 in Money, Student Loans

It’s that time of year when parents, as well as new and returning college students, start thinking about college loans. Consequently, today I want to answer a few questions about Stafford Loans, which are the most popular federal student loans. Here are the questions: Question No. 1: Are there different kinds of Stafford Loans? Yes. [...]

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College Loan Debt Just Passed Credit Card Debt!

on August 9, 2010 in Financial aid, Money, Student Loans

Americans now owe more money on their college loans than they do on credit cards. I just read about that scary reality on The Wall Street Journal’s website. According to Mark Kantrowitz, the financial aid guru over at FinAid and Fastweb, Americans owe about $829.7 billion in student loans. In comparison, consumers owe $826.5 billion [...]

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A Cheat Sheet for Repaying Student Loans

on July 9, 2010 in Financial aid, Money, Student Loans

If you have questions about repaying a student loan, Mark Kantrowitz, the financial aid wizard over at Fastweb, the scholarship search engine, has written a very handy guide on the topic. His student-loan repayment cheat sheet is hot off the press and full of invaluable information. Here are some of the topics that Repaying Student [...]

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Putting Your College Debt On Hold

on June 7, 2010 in Financial aid, Money, Parents, Student Loans

I got an email this week from Sharon, a mom who is distraught about her son’s college debt. She was hoping that I had an idea about how he can tackle this debt when he is only working part-time. I did have a suggestion on how the young college grad can reduce his student debt [...]

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