| For high school seniors and college students: It's loan season and if you need to borrow to pay for college, make sure to watch our FB Live recordings and review the articles to answer your loan questions.
For 9th - 11th grade families: If you're starting to look at colleges and want to make sure you're looking at colleges that can offer your student money, check out our College Free Money Finder. It gives you access to a database of over 1200 merit scholarships from colleges! |
| | Is It "Nitch" or "Neesh"?
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| | "Nitch", "Neesh" or "Nish" - however you like to say it, these are scholarships that don't apply to a majority of students. That's because you need to use your student's uniqueness to find scholarships where the competition is lower and they will have a better chance of standing out from the pack.
Take a look at our list of specialized scholarships to see if there's a category that applies to your student. Stay tuned, we'll be adding a new "Niche" every month.
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| | Which Colleges Rank High on the Generosity Index?
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| | It’s hard to believe that the words “college” and “generous” can ever appear together in the same sentence, let alone the same thought, but they can…if you know where to look.
Our College Free Money Finder guides families to find colleges that can be more generous to their students. By entering a student’s academic information, state of residency, location preference, along with interests in the arts, sports, STEM, and nursing, families will
receive a list of colleges in order of merit or need-based generosity.
It’s amazing what you can find, if you just know where to look. And all for $19.99 per month.
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| If only the Student Loan process would be as simple as choosing one from Column A and one from Column B…
It’s not, but, once you have all the options laid out before you and an expert is standing by to answer all your questions about them, the process doesn’t seem nearly as complicated as some people assume it is.
Last week’s “5-Days of Understanding Borrowing & Lending Series” was a big hit! Catch all the recordings here.
The many people who watched in real time and the many who tuned in to watch the recordings later came away with a warehouse of information about Budgeting, Types of Student Loans, Student Loan Features, Loans Without Cosigners, and How to Make Financially Smart Decisions supplied by our experts from HerMoney, LendKey, College Ave, CommonBond, and Funding U.
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| | | | Compare Rates Among Lenders
If you need to borrow money to pay for college, now is the time to gather as much information as you can before you're pressed to make a decision of where to borrow.
Use the links below to get prequalified and/or submit an application to find out the interest rate you'll receive. If you do all your loan shopping (including submitting applications), within a 30 day window, the credit bureaus do not penalize your credit score for submitting applications to multiple lenders.
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| LENDER I RATES
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CommonBond I 3.74% - 9.72% *
LendKey I 4.46% - 9.43%*
College Ave I 3.99% - 11.98%*
Citizens Bank I 3.99% - 11.64%**
Sallie Mae I 4.25% - 11.35%*
Funding U I 7.99 - 13.99**
*Variable rates as of 6/12/19, fixed rates may vary.
**Funding U only offers fixed rates. |
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| | | Debbie Schwartz Founder, Road2College I'm a parent, like many of you, navigating college admissions and paying for college. With an expertise in personal finance, analysis, and marketing, I'm working to give families the information and tools to make smarter financial college decisions. |
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