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Personal Advice

You Can Organize Your College Search

Choose the right college without getting stressed out. Finding the right college is important because it can greatly impact your post-secondary experience and help prepare you for a career. If

NCAA Football

No Doubt That the Crimson Tide Are No. 1

Alabama successfully makes its case by blanking LSU. Who could have seen it coming? Alabama not only avenged itself of an earlier season loss to LSU, but it shut down

Education Tips

How to Get Accepted By Prestigious U.

Ivy League, Duke, Stanford and other top-notch schools. Some people place the Ivies above all the rest, but most any reputable list (including Forbes’ America’s Best Colleges)includes Whitman College, Pomona

Personal Advice

Where to Find Student Housing

How to find off-campus housing. Off-Campus Housing There are several places you can go to look for student housing, including walks through neighborhoods where you take note of “for rent”

Personal Advice

College Apartments: Tips, Tricks and Cautions

However, making the transition to private housing isn’t a simple process and it will certainly require much consideration and money on your part. Let’s take a look at how you

Advanced Education

What Are the Advantages of Attending Community College?

Two-year colleges continue to appeal to millions of students. Today’s community and technical colleges are public-supported schools, receiving taxpayer support on the county or state level, sometimes both. So, why

Campus News

College Cheating: How Widespread is it?

Cheating is a way of life for some students. What’s more, with the pressure to succeed being an enormous one, many students may be justifying what they do in a

Advanced Education

Make the Most Out of Your College Career Fair

Face to face meetings help you get acquainted. Most high schools have them — these are usually one-day events where recruiting staff from local colleges and universities show up, set

College Budgeting

Keep Your Credit Strong While In College

Manage your credit wisely by obtaining your free credit reports. Spending Habits Within months of setting foot on campus, some students begin to undertake spending habits that will eventually come

FAFSA Form Tips

Is Federal Work-Study Right For You?

College work study program can help you pay for college. Participating Schools According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 3,400 schools participate in FWS, paying students wages equal

Student Loans

Student Loans: Pay Back or Defer?

Making your first student loan payments. Welcome to the world of life after college. It may not be the picture of what you had expected more than four years ago:

Book Reviews

Updated: Paying for College Without Going Broke

Kalman A. Chany’s latest edition is now available. Here in North Carolina, state college students are facing some of the largest increases ever seen as restricted budgets force legislators to