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FAFSA Application Season – The First Step in Applying for Financial Aid

If you are a high school senior and are planning to go to college in the fall, the first step in the financial help application process is the FAFSA.  What is a FAFSA?  It is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.  What is it for?  You have to complete this government form to qualify…
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Compare Private Student Loans

The Student Loan Network offers a unique option to customers; choose from two different private student installment loan options. The first, a standard “school certified” private college student installment loan has somewhat lower fees and rates.  The down side is that the school has to certify the installment loan (verify that you are a student…
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Student Loan Network Sponsoring $10,000 Scholarship

This post was originally written in 2008 about the Student Loan Network and we are proud to see that the network is still going strong. In fact the Student Loan networks scholarship is also still available as well, which is even more exciting. You can find out more about the Student Loan Network Sponsoring $10,000…
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Entrance Strategy

As we all know debt is a liability or obligation to pay or render something. Unfortunately many of us find ourselves biting off more than we can chew in this regard. In fact, some friends told me recently they are so far in debt with their student installment loans they have just stopped paying them…
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Father Knows Best

Ever since I was a teenager my father, Stephen E. Bonvie, spoke these eloquent words, “The power of disciple the rewards of time. ”He spoke these words in context of saving money. Of course I was caught in the age old conundrum of having the knowledge and game plan at age 15, but not having…
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Bad Credit and Federal vs. Private Student Loans

Students and bad credit… Well, there is some help. The parent of the Student Loan Network, Edvisors, has created a student credit education resource – StudentPlatinum.com. The site offers a number of good articles on how to build and maintain good credit or fix your bad (”poor”) credit. Check it out when you have some…
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Borrowers are Going Private

This afternoon I helped Debbie who attends Bentley College as a first year student. She just realized that with tuition, books and food, her federal student loan wouldn’t get her through her first school year. After much research she decided to take out an $8,000 Act Education Loan through the Student Loan Network. She was…
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News from NASFAA

Today (Nov 2007)  the House Education and Labor Committee is scheduled to consider legislation that would dramatically increase student aid by increasing Pell Grants and loan limits, cutting student loan interest rates, providing income-contingent student loan repayment, and offering new loan forgiveness programs. The College Cost Reduction Act would increase federal spending on student aid…
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What You Ought To Know…

For many students graduating college, the biggest challenge they face is when and how to begin paying back their college loans. About two-thirds of students borrow money to pay for college, so this is no small issue. In 2007, the median debt of students who graduate from four-year private colleges is about $20,000, and it…
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