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Archive for category Money Matters
It is critically important for parents to make sure their student is using their loans only for true educational costs.
Money issues are probably the top reason students drop out of college. With that in mind, our Pick of the Month is the excellent ebook course Money Management for Young Adults – this self study course clearly explains essential money skills that college students need to understand.
Steps You and Your College Student Can Take to Reduce the Risks of Info Fraud and Identity Theft
Presented by CollegeTipsForParents.org
College Students are frequently the victims of information fraud. The victims’ parents are often asked to help fix the financial mess and spend considerable time untangling the administrative issues.
Identity thieves often know their victims; either directly [...]
According to an excellent article in the Suntimes, many parents putting away less savings for their children’s college education. Based on a survey by the College Savings Foundation, parents have saved less this year than last year, and a great number of parents saved nothing.
Some of the highlights of the survey include:
Parents [...]
Given the recent credit crisis, there will likely be greater challenges in getting private student loans. Private loans will likely harder to come by, and may be even more expensive. However, parents and students need to make sure that they take advantage of any available federal, state, and institutional aid, before looking [...]
Just as a following up to our earlier post; there suddenly is a major move among many elite schools to reduce the amount of funding that college parents and students must provide. This trend is becoming very common among private colleges which have large endowments. They are often capping the amounts of parent [...]
There is an article excellent appearing in the online newspaper, The Ledger, entitled ‘Aid In Paying Bills For College‘ about tips for paying for admission to top-flight universities such as Harvard and Yale. The article is written by Jonathan Clements who is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Clements frequently [...]
What are the gifts that college students want? The list below describes gifts which are not only popular among young people, but are useful items to have at college. In future posts we will continue to add to this list.
The following list was based of the input of college students.
Pre-Paid Gas Cards
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What happens if your student’s possessions are stolen or destroyed on campus ? Do you need insurance at college? or does your homeowners insurance cover your students possessions at college?
It depends on your insurance policy. You should definately check with your insurance agent.
As we saw in our earlier blog entry, valuable [...]