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Student Financial Aid News
+ Chronicle: After months of artfully promoting doomsday scenarios for the federal student-lending system, the nation’s student loan companies appear to have won terms from Congress and the Bush administration that could help both the lenders and the student borrowers.
+ The federal program already hands out interest-rate subsidies and repayment guarantees to enable lenders to offer cut-rate student loans. Now, with the administration’s financial rescue plan, the lenders can either use their portfolios of subsidized loans as collateral for even more government funds or sell the loans outright to the government for more than their face value. Either way, that makes more money available for students to borrow.
+ Interesting and insightful analysis
+ For all the new friends on Twitter who are having FAFSA issues, be sure to check out FAFSAonline.com
+ For all the new friends on Twitter who are having student loan issues, drop me an email

Scholarship Update
+ The FastWeb and Dell “Why I Deserve A Scholarship” Contest is open to students 15 years of age or older who are either currently enrolled in an accredited college/university or will graduate from high school in Spring 2008. To be eligible for this contest, you must submit a video explaining why you deserve a scholarship. Additionally, you must be a legal resident of the 50 United States or District of Columbia.
+ Deadline July 4, 2008
+ Details at our free college scholarship search site
+ Are you signed up for the Student Loan Network $10,000 scholarship?

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