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Does Applying for Financial Aid Lower Your College Acceptance Odds?

Great College Advice

Many families worry that their student won’t be accepted if they check the box on the college application indicating that they will be applying for financial aid. If you’re a good candidate, they put you in the “accept” pile. If the student is a compelling candidate, it is actually more likely that he or she will be accepted.

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My Family Never Told Me They Couldn’t Pay My College Bill

Grown & Flown

Twenty20 @OlgaPink) In the spring of 2010 I got accepted with scholarships, grants, and loans to my first choice private liberal arts school, in the midwest. In my early twenties, I no longer needed to watch scary movies because I had lived through this cautionary tale about college financial aid.

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Financial Aid Timeline for High School Seniors

Great College Advice

Fill out the FAFSA when the portal opens To get a jump on the process, start filling out your FAFSA when it begins accepting applications. The FAFSA typically opens on October 1 but for 2024-2025 it opens on December 1 (although they are now accepting applications in late November).

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College Admissions Glossary of Terms

Admissions Village

Admissions/Application Language*: Acceptance/Admission: An offer of admission to a college for its incoming class. Possible decisions include acceptance/admission, deferral to the regular decision pool (for applications submitted in the early rounds), placement on a waitlist, or denial of admission.

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Vanderbilt: Class of 2028 Acceptance Rate

Top Tier Admissions

VANDERBILT: RECORD-LOW ACCEPTANCE RATE While initially declining to report Early Decision statistics , we now know that Vanderbilt received 5,835 ED applicants to the Class of 2028, the most in its history. Its combined ED acceptance rate was 15.2%. It’s also frequently listed as both a “ Southern Ivy ” and a “ New Ivy.”

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Report: Education Dept. Illegally Took Wages From Student Loan Borrowers

BestColleges

Wage garnishments are withheld wages from loan borrowers who have defaulted. Department of Education (ED) had collected wages from student loan borrowers after it was illegal to do so. According to the report, when a student loan borrower falls 270 days behind on repaying debt, they enter into default.

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Wake Forest University 

Ivy Central

The accepted students represent 47 states and 45 countries. Admissions Acceptance Rate Wake Forest University has an acceptance rate of 29.4%. The university received 10,512 applications and accepted 3091 students. 75% of the accepted students ranked in the top 10% of their high school class.