FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Vassar College announced Tuesday that it is eliminating loans from the aid packages of students with family incomes of up to $60,000. While a number of prominent private colleges have been making such announcements, Vassar is one of relatively few to make the shift with an endowment of less than $1 billion. + Chronicle: Responding to concerns that the recent withdrawals of some lenders from the student-loan market could make it harder for students to obtain private loans next fall, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is preparing to offer legislation to expand eligibility for federal student loans, an aide to the Massachusetts Democrat told the Career College Association at a forum here on Tuesday. + The aide, J.D. LaRock, did not provide specifics about Senator Kennedy’s plan, but for-profit colleges have been lobbying Congress to raise the amount of money students can borrow in unsubsidized Stafford loans and to provide a PLUS-type loan for independent students. PLUS loans are now available only to parents of undergraduates and to graduate students. + Stafford federal student loan information + Parent PLUS loans + Graduate PLUS loans + Private student loans Scholarship Update + St. Joseph’s College Full Tuition Scholarships + Large pile of them + August 1 deadline + Details at our free college scholarship search site News You Can Use + How to write effective scholarship essays + Scholarship essays are also sales letters, when you think about it + Hemingway’s 5 rules of effective writing + 11 top secret recipes for copywriting + Part of a broader idea - how can you take knowledge, information, and techniques from the business world into other realms? Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you . Subscribing for free means you don’t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 Reminders + Student Loan Network Fall $10,000 Scholarship + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Grad student? Get graduate financial aid information at the GradLoans.com blog! + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. I want to hear from you! Email me at financialaidpodcast {at} gmail {dot} com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis Less