• Student Loan Basics: Fixed & Variable Interest Rates

    Student Loan Basics: Fixed & Variable Interest Rates

    Picking a student loan that best meets your needs requires you to understand some basic concepts. Student Loan Basics is a series of articles to empower you with information about student loans and help you make smart financial choices.

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  • Getting more Financial Aid for the Fall 2020 College Semester

    Getting more Financial Aid for the Fall 2020 College Semester

    Covid-19 dramatically changed the landscape for college students during the Spring of 2020. What will happen in the fall?  If your financial circumstances changed, you may be eligible for more financial aid.

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  • Updates in College Trends

    Updates in College Trends

    John talks to the Prudent Money radio show about colleges shutting as a result CV-19, the fall semester and Lori Laughlin’s plea deal.

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  • 529 Day: CV-19 has Not Changed the Importance of Saving for College

    529 Day: CV-19 has Not Changed the Importance of Saving for College

    The global CV-19 pandemic has reshaped our lives and thrown chaos into every element of the college process. But has it changed the way we should think about saving and paying for college?  Is this 529 Day – May 29, 2020, the year of CV-19, truly different from years past?  Not when we consider the […]

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  • Will College Campuses open in the fall?

    Will College Campuses open in the fall?

    John Hupalo and Bob Brooks, host of the Prudent Money Radio Show, talk about campus life as “usual” in the fall and the student lawsuits for refunds for remote vs. campus-based learning.

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  • How Is COVID-19 Affecting Colleges?

    How Is COVID-19 Affecting Colleges?

    Join John Hupalo for a great conversation with Bob Brooks on the implications COVID-19 is having on high school juniors, seniors and student loan borrowers.

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  • Tips for H.S. Juniors, Seniors & Student Loan Borrowers Navigating COVID-19

    Tips for H.S. Juniors, Seniors & Student Loan Borrowers Navigating COVID-19

    Coronavirus changed our lives. That unseen, microscopic organism is also fundamentally changing the landscape for student loan borrowers and high school juniors and seniors.  Let’s take a look at the unchartered paths they are navigating to apply, enter, and pay for college.

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  • Get Creative with your College Bill

    Get Creative with your College Bill

    Looking to ease the burden of paying for college tuition? Tune into this podcast for creative solutions families can use to pay their upcoming college bill. Prudent Money hoast, Bob Brooks and College Admissions expert John Hupalo discuss the options.

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  • Save Money: Dig into Financial Aid

    Save Money: Dig into Financial Aid

    College admissions decisions are arriving – a joyous time for students relishing their success. A disappointing moment when dream schools say no. No matter which, these emotions will soon be overrun by the reality of making a school choice. And then figuring out how to pay the coming college bill. Lurking under it all: how much student loan debt will […]

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