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Student Loan Interest Rates Double

By Emma Hinchliffe July 1, 2013

Interest rates on federally subsidized student loans doubled from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent Monday after Congress failed to come to an agreement before the July 1 deadline. The increased rate for subsidized...

FAFSA Changes Reporting Guidelines for Parents

By Penny Hung April 29, 2013

The 2014-2015 Free Application for Federal Student Aid will include non-gender-specific options for financial aid applicants to describe their parents’ income and general information, regardless of gender...

Georgetown Questions Online College Cost Tool

By Sports Editor and Kelly Church April 20, 2013

After the federal government unveiled an online cost comparison tool to help families manage the expenses of college education last week, the tool has drawn criticism from colleges for misrepresenting...

Administrators Dispute College Scorecard’s Ranking on GU Financial Aid

By Drew Cunningham March 5, 2013

While Georgetown officials say that President Obama’s College Scorecard system, announced in his Feb. 12 State of the Union speech, is a commendable effort to help parents and high school students make...

Campus Braces for Sequester

By Christopher Zawora March 1, 2013

Without successful negotiations between President Obama and Congress today to prevent sequestration, spending cuts intended to save the government $85 billion will begin automatically as a result of the...

Hard Knock Res Life

By The Editorial Board February 22, 2013

Taking a position as a resident assistant, like any job, is inevitably a cost-benefit decision. While being chosen to support and enrich undergraduates’ housing experience is an honor and privilege,...

Foreign Students Face Limited Aid

By Tia Baheri January 25, 2013

The story of Alexis Garau (COL ’15) is like that of many undergraduates at Georgetown: Without the aid she receives from the university’s endowment and the federal government, she would not have...

Fiscal Cliff Threatens Student Aid

By Ted Murphy December 7, 2012

The impending “fiscal cliff” for the budget deficit, which would cause a combination of automatic federal tax increases and spending cuts early next year, could compromise the availability of federally...

DC Offers College Scholarship To Local Low-Income Students

By Abbey McNaughton October 19, 2012

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray recently announced a new scholarship fund for graduates of D.C. high schools who come from low-income families and will be attending universities in the District. Gray set aside...

Georgetown Questions Online College Cost Tool

By Kelly Church April 20, 2012

After the federal government unveiled an online cost comparison tool to help families manage the expenses of college education last week, the tool has drawn criticism from colleges for misrepresenting...

Federal Student Aid May Increase

By Sarah Kaplan February 16, 2012

President Obama called for the allocation of $165 billion to federal student aid in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2013 released Monday. According to Georgetown's Associate Vice President for...

Pell Grants Avoid Major Cuts

By David Schuler April 29, 2011

After several months of negotiations between Congress, the White House and the Department of Education, Pell Grant funding and other federal sources of financial aid have emerged from the budget process...

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