
Description: The Financial Aid Podcast brings you free internet radio programs on how to make college affordable, including financial aid, scholarships, student loans, job search, and more! Money talks - are you listening?
FAP932: Scholarship craziness, heavy metal Hanukkah, MASFAA 2009 Download the MP3 file here. Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Why does college cost so much? Merit based scholarships getting the axe. Scholarship Update Entertainment abounds in the results of our $10,000 scholarship. We hope to have a confirmed winner really soon. In the meantime, our next $10,000 scholarship deadline is December 15. Focus on Financial [...]
Audio|Fri, 6 Nov 2009
|motley foolfound at1:09, 4:18
“…With the weekly financially -- Topping the news this week from the Motley Fool to William and her professors have tackled the hot button issue of the skyrocketing cost of college education. And a new book …”
“…soon. Which brings me to art scholarship opting for this week. Industry scholarship update entertainment and a wacky and this is abounding in the results of our 10000 dollar scholarship we contacted -- at which the …”
FAP931: Swine flu, credit cards, and our $10,000 scholarship Download the MP3 file here. Weekly Financial Aid News Insane credit card rates! Swine flu! Scholarship Update Tomorrow we’re giving away $10,000. Are you ready? Free Stuff Friday 4GB drive from MicroCenter Brilliant Brunette Shampoo Clorox wipes Nescafe Taster’s Choice Bottle of Cherry Coke (20oz) Menchie’s Yogurt Toy from Mattel at Sears Desk Clock Target 8×10 Free Song of the Week Gretchen Parlato “In [...]
Audio|Fri, 30 Oct 2009
|interest ratesfound at2:24, 1:24
“…financial situations. Also and his other credit card issuers are cranking up interest rates as well I saw some folks reporting that. It's their student credit cards got to run from a 14% to around 30%. Literally in overnight now what's happening of course is a credit card issuers are cranking at the interest rates while they can. Before the legislative changes take place in February of twenty -- so -- over the last gasp of trying …”
“…to be adding its contribution with a credit card the -- and interest rates and we have -- self and I'm not joking interest rate of 79 point 9%. Of the media's debt that was not …”
FAP930: Financial aid, tuition increases, blankets, and grilled chicken Download the MP3 here. Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Back to the old format. I just like it better. Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship Tuition costs up as much as 6% at publics Income based repayment problems Scholarship Update Scholarships for agriculture studies New York Women in Communications Foundation 2010 Scholarship Program National ACT High School Poster [...]
Audio|Fri, 23 Oct 2009
|philadelphia eaglesfound at5:39, 5:30
“…In this week's scholarship update rather than go through and list each of the awards and it's gonna -- go check up the shipments of financially podcaster accounts who got a ton of different wards. Indian and at the New York women in communications foundation scholarship. -- scholarship program the Philadelphia Eagles scholarship program. . Tons and tons of awards on the show notes financially podcast dot com plus of course the student loan over 10000 dollar …”
“…today. That's the news for this week let's move on to a scholarship update. . …”
FAP929: Digital Foundations for Career Success Download the MP3 file here. I’ve really been enjoying these single topic, focused podcasts we’ve been doing the last 3 weeks, and I think I’m going to keep that format rolling, as opposed to a summary of the news, which you can get daily at the Financial Aid News, along with [...]
Audio|Fri, 9 Oct 2009
|linkedinfound at4:49, 2:56
“…got you blogs that you -- personal website and is. Start a Linkedin profile now Linkedin dot com is eight careers and social service it's if it's like. I like to call like that the of the FaceBook of -- business these are people actually get things done. It also has -- component as an example so -- can upload your resume. Initially you're not gonna have a lot to put on the particularly feel like a freshman or sophomore and a is not gonna have a lot of stuff besides your average summer job connecting and that's okay. What you wanna do is with the Linkedin profile. As you do things through your college career whether it is running a club wedding -- a volunteer group doing any …”
“…secured. -- know whatever your name is -- by almost names like John Smith in which case -- gonna have to -- of that as some kind of variation on that but. It's relatively inexpensive to …”
FAP928: What’s ahead for your financial aid future Download the MP3 file here. Expert Interview In this 25 minute interview with Maria Simos, CEO of e-Forecasting.com, and Dr. Evangelos Simos, Professor of Economics at the Whittemore School of Business at UNH, we talk about the current financial conditions impacting students and families, what industries are likely to be [...]
Audio|Mon, 5 Oct 2009
|homer simpson'sfound at14:54, 16:00
“…reliable -- the beauty -- and did you -- the barn burner homer Simpson's fate. So that's what nerve or observed not all. I mean who weren't. Both -- in novel than we series berth but …”
“…don't completely broke the government would probably hurt you in woo -- Loverboy. . Very negative consequence you all of -- commercial market. But help it is our he's going to -- Burton the brunt of …”
FAP927: Personal finance guide, part 2 Click here to download the MP3 file This week, we continue our personal finance guide and talk about debt reduction methods, plus some scam warnings. Grab the PDF version of the guide here. 5 most recent Financial Aid Podcast posts Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Did you enjoy this? If [...]
Audio|Fri, 25 Sep 2009
|interest ratefound at1:51, 2:44
“…at all your debts and figure out which debt. Has the highest interest rate let's start putting additional money as much you can afford beyond the minimum payment towards that debt until it's paid off. Now this method has the advantage -- in the big picture because you've paid off your highest interest rate debts first you paid the least amount of interest overall. Remember with like we talked about last week. Interest is effectively rants …”
“…speaker. Dave Ramsey called the snowball approach rather than pay the highest interest rate debt allfirst. His suggestion is that you pay off debts completely in -- of the smallest to largest debts to get the …”
A special this week – the first in a series of personal finance shows. Click here to download the MP3 file Personal Finance Part 1 Key concepts: - Opportunity cost - Time is money - Interest is rent How to budget. Scholarship Points Instructions Are you a Scholarship Points member? In today’s show, get a Points code for 20 Scholarship Points by subscribing to [...]
Audio|Fri, 18 Sep 2009
|interest ratefound at6:02, 7:02
“…bank is the rent -- to pay which of course is the interest rate you want the lowest -- possible right. Finally when it comes to repaying your debts. Your goal is to pay back debt …”
“…that that pay. I get that we're not gonna be doing a massive multi page mammoth budgets each scene and monastic view in classes Lori I fancy personal finance suffered a -- in mom and dad …”
FAP923: Back to school financial tips special Listen now:
Audio|Fri, 28 Aug 2009
|scholarship updatefound at0:44, 10:52
“…Good Friday August 28 2009 my name is Christa repent and thank you Virginia to the financially podcast have a great show for you today a special show couldn't get away from just pure financially -- to -- back to school financial tips. Plus is scholarship update -- stuff and of course free stuff for free song of the week so let's get rolling. With a back to school …”
“…you're doing to save more money at college. Time now for a scholarship update. . Two things and -- scholarship update today first of course for -- points members we'll have a -- leader on the show for twenty points towards any discussion …”
FAP922: Social media scholarship, last minute financial aid, free stuff Listen now:
Audio|Fri, 21 Aug 2009
|scholarship searchfound at8:33, 1:23
“…you haven't picked it up please grab a copy of our free scholarship search secrets e-book at student scholarship search dot com it's completely totally freak. We revamped very recently to the sixth edition teaches you how to use things like FaceBook …”
“…agencies that monitor the status of federally subsidized student loans. And administer loan forgiveness programs of those who follow certain career paths. Many of these agencies temporarily foot the bill for loan forgiveness before being reimbursed by …”
FAP921: FAFSA oversimplification, scholarship newsletter, gay chorus covers Listen now:
Audio|Fri, 14 Aug 2009
|federal student aidfound at1:24, 4:16
“…that procedures and documents like the -- with the free application for Federal Student Aid should not be discouraging students from seeking financial help for college. But lurking in the background and explaining the need for the …”
“…ready to hit the ground running. Finally in the news this week Nelnet the student loan company second quarter profit sank 81% and the company said it would cut 300 jobs as part -- restructuring …”