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Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply (Medical News Today)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:32 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage." "Tuition and fees at public medical schools, after all, have shot up 133 percent since 1990, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. ...
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In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:32:10 GMT
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Long accused of overpromising and underdelivering, commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and more Pell grants.
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In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:27:59 GMT
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PETER S. GOODMAN Commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and Pell grants.
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UCSB Takes a Swing at Sallie Mae (Santa Barbara Independent)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:10:31 GMT
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Loan lender effigy to be bludgeoned by student volunteers.
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Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply (News-Medical-Net)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:43:04 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage."
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Defaults on student loans rising (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:01 GMT
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Every year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
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Obama delays Asia trip to focus on push (Washington Post)
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:11:13 GMT
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President will leave for Indonesia three days later than planned, in an effort to move stalled legislation through Congress.
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Students take swing at lending company (The Daily)
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:52:57 GMT
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With a baseball bat and a cardboard box, disgruntled students were able to express their frustrations with Sallie Mae, a student lending company, outside Odegaard library yesterday.
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Dealing with student-loan debt (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:21 GMT
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• Seek help early. If you lose your job, consider asking your lender right away about options to lower or postpone monthly payments. A lot of people wait until it's too late and the overdue notices pile up.
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Defaults on student loans rising (The Arizona Republic)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:05:42 GMT
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Advocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages.
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