Colin Beresford is a student loans writer at NerdWallet who aims to help people make the best possible decisions when paying for an education. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he worked as an automotive business writer at Car and Driver magazine, and his work has appeared in Bloomberg, Nasdaq and the Los Angeles Times, among other outlets. Email: [email protected].
October marks the open date for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA — and college-bound students should submit the application as soon as possible. Completing the FAFSA…
If you’re considering going to college this fall — or next — there is one way to ensure you’re considered for as much free money as possible: by submitting the…
The Department of Education announced Aug. 19 that it would automatically discharge federal student loans for 323,000 borrowers who qualify as totally and permanently disabled. Their debt totals $5.8 billion.…
Federal student loan borrowers anticipating the return of their regular student loan payments Oct. 1 can once again breathe a sigh of relief: The pause will continue through Jan. 31,…
Institutional loans are a type of financial aid that colleges lend directly to their students. Students or their parents may be offered an institutional loan to fill the gap between…
The Common App enables you to apply to multiple colleges across the U.S. with one standard application. You’ll enter personal and schooling information just once on the Common App. It…
College enrollment has fallen for the second semester in a row compared with year-earlier periods. And the drop through the spring of this year was worse than it was in…
Some colleges, aiming to make it easier for borrowers to find help paying for school, provide a list of preferred lenders to their students who need a private student loan…
Federal student loans will be more expensive for 2021-22 school year. Even so, borrowers will still see some of the lowest student loan interest rates of the past decade. Interest…
Student loan borrowers who qualify as totally and permanently disabled may receive an automatic discharge of their federal student loans. As a result, some borrowers will no longer need to…
