by Micheal E. McKinnon, M.Ed., CCPS; College Planners of America, Ltd | Mar 12, 2024 | Loan Forgiveness
Since 2021, the Biden administration has forgiven $138 billion in student loans for 3.9 million borrowers. The Administration announced on February 21 that another category of borrowers would have their loans forgiven by the end of the month. This $1.2 billion tranche...
by Micheal E. McKinnon, M.Ed., CCPS; College Planners of America, Ltd | Mar 5, 2024 | SAT/ACT
Colleges never favored using standardized test scores as the primary criterion in admissions. They did considered them useful as the only means of comparing applicants on an apples-to-apples basis. In the early aughts, however, a movement emerged to make test scores...
by Micheal E. McKinnon, M.Ed., CCPS; College Planners of America, Ltd | Feb 26, 2024 | Colleges
The traditional image of college education features students in a classroom with a professor lecturing them. But lately, more and more students are opting to take college classes online rather than in classrooms. Students engage with their coursework, classmates, and...
by Micheal E. McKinnon, M.Ed., CCPS; College Planners of America, Ltd | Feb 13, 2024 | FAFSA
The student financial aid system has always been complex. With this year’s new FAFSA and its inept rollout by the U.S. Education Department (ED), it will be even more baffling for all parties — students, parents, guidance counselors, Federal and state agency staffers,...
by Micheal E. McKinnon, M.Ed., CCPS; College Planners of America, Ltd | Jan 31, 2024 | FAFSA
As noted in a recent post, the U.S. Education Department (ED) announced in December that the revised FAFSA would be initially released as a “soft launch” on January 1 and that it would only perform a data store-and-forward operation for data processing by the ED at...
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