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Cheap Ways for College Students To Have Fun With Friends
Tired of watching movies or studying together with your college friends? Here are some inexpensive ways to hang out with your friends and do something new.
5 Unique Ideas To Help You Make Money In College
The college years are some of the poorest years in an individual’s life. You are always trying to scrape money together to buy pizza and to hit up places on the weekend. Students try everything from selling text books to taking a part time job to make extra money.
7 After College Tips for Graduating Students
Tassel turning time will soon be here and that means nearly two million people will get their associate, bachelor’s, master’s or other advanced degree.
Tips for Finding Part-Time Work On and Off Campus
If you are pinching pennies or otherwise counting every dime, then you have very little money to meet your needs. Moreover, if ramen noodles is your diet of necessity and not of choice, then you really are pinched, aren’t you?
8 Gift Ideas for High School Grads
High school graduation is in full swing with millions of students across the country set to close one chapter of their lives in preparation for embarking on a new one. This is an exciting time for graduates and should be recognized accordingly.
College Savings Plans by the Numbers
You’ve been socking away money for years to cover your son’s or daughter’s college education. Or perhaps you have several children and have been amassing a small college savings plan for each one.
How to Manage College Living Expenses
Once you pay your tuition, fees, room & board, and purchase or rent your textbooks, you may have precious little money left to live on.
Should You Transfer to a Different College?
Ideally, students will start and finish their undergraduate work at the same school, enjoying the familiarity, consistency, and the security of attending one school. There is something to be said about student and faculty relationships that are built over four years, what can provide a lifetime of mutually satisfying support.
College Scholarships: January 2014 Edition
Reducing the cost of higher education begins with you, the student. Filling out a FAFSA form and applying for grant money are important steps in helping to reduce your college costs. Applying for college scholarships can also help your cause, reducing your expenditures further.
Are Credit Cards a Trap for College Students?
You’ve heard the warning: credit cards for college students are a bad idea. Well, there is some truth to that statement. Especially when credit is easily dispensed, overused, and not properly managed.
College Scholarships: December 2013 Edition
College-bound and current students that land scholarships can help defray the cost of their education. Scholarship recipients should know that these funds are not repaid and along with grants can reduce their higher education costs. Billions of dollars in college scholarship monies are awarded every academic year, money that you may be missing out on.
College Scholarships in the Unlikeliest Places
Fall is a very good time to apply for college scholarships, a season when high school seniors may be absorbed with filling out college applications, writing essays and gathering references.
