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	<title>College Funding Group &#187; Students</title>
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	<description>Paying for college the right way for your family</description>
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		<title>SAT Scores &#8211; What difference can 10 points make?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a bit apparently. The New York Times reports that a senior official at Claremont McKenna in California has been submitting false SAT scores to publications like the U.S. News &#38; World Report for six years.  The falsified scores were inflated by an average of 10 to 20 points for each reading and math.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting through the essay</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students, if you are having a tough time with your college application essays, here are some suggestions on what you can do. First, acknowledge where you are in the timeline.  You&#8217;ve put off the essay and now you are swamped with important schoolwork, extracurricular demands, and your social life.  It&#8217;s hard to find time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common App on a Mac &#8211; Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been some early reports of problems for Common Application users with copy/paste on a Mac running Lion.  Suggestion:  try to copy and paste some sample text into the Common App before you get too deep into the application.  You don&#8217;t want to find that you cannot paste your essay one hour before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many colleges should I apply to?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8. Does that surprise you?  It&#8217;s tongue in cheek.  There is no correct numerical answer to this question, but there is a correct way to figure out the answer that works for you. Two caveats up front:  First, do not apply to any schools that you absolutely will not go to;  even if they were they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live like a broke college student</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenagers say in survey after survey that they want to contribute to the cost of their college education.  The majority seem to feel a sense of responsibility, but they also don&#8217;t have a lot of money to chip in.  So what can you do to help out? Reorient your spending! Make it your primary goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moodys Downgrades College Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk about debt downgrades and ratings agencies, we thought it would be timely to consider what one of them has to say about student loans.  From Moody&#8217;s recent report, Student Lending’s Failing Grade: &#8220;Unless students limit their debt burdens, choose fields of study that are in demand, and successfully complete their degrees on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step by Step Guide to Getting Cheap Textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to get your textbooks. Here&#8217;s what you do, step by step. First, get the ISBNs of the books you need. How do you do that? You should have that information from registration, but if you don&#8217;t, call the student bookstore at your school and ask them what the books are for your classes, ask the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Tips for Graduates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduating seniors:  Last October when you were mired in essays and applications, you probably thought graduation would never get here.  Well it&#8217;s here!  Congratulations and well done &#8211; you deserve a pat on the back for both your perseverance and your accomplishment. This summer is a great time to get a few things straight before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Aid Award Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance letters bring a huge sigh of relief across the country.  But arriving shortly behind those is the financial aid award letter.  This is the letter that needs to be scrutinized closely, and colleges do not make it easy to do that.  Don&#8217;t let your excitement about being accepted interfere with the need to review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Admissions and Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[82 percent of college admissions officers reported that their school uses Facebook to recruit students.  That news comes from a survey of admissions officers by Kaplan Test Prep.  So what should you do? Delete your profile?  Maybe, especially if it&#8217;s really ridiculous.  Here&#8217;s the test question for that:  Do you show your profile to your [...]]]></description>
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