7. News
7. News
This blog is officially closed and will now only exist as an archive of past posts.
Please visit the new blog at http://daniel.mitblogs.com.
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What a warm weekend in Boston -- humid, hot and sticky. It's nice that summer has arrived, but I would prefer to have my heat without humidity! This weekend was my choir's end of year performance. We were in a room with no A/C; and I had six or so
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Hey all! Several items of update.
First off, I am back in Cambridge, having arrived during an eventful Wednesday evening thunderstorm. It was great to be in Aspen, but it is even greater to be home. The presentation in Aspen was a great success,
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Tomorrow morning, I will be jet setting across the continent as I make my way to Aspen, Colorado for the bi-annual (in this case, every other year) COFHE Financial Aid Director's Retreat. For those of you who do not know, COFHE is the Consortium on Financing
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To all this year's MIT graduates...
My hat's off to you...
For those of you who want to watch graduation live today, log on here.
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Interesting article in the Washington Post on the pros and cons of merit-based scholarships (as you know, MIT does not offter merit-based funding).
Thoughts?
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In case you didn't already know! -- See here...
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Some great photos of Killian Court as MIT gets ready for commencement on Friday.
See here for the pics!
Photos were taken by David J. Broderick, Audio Visual Project Technician, MIT AV.
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Today is the last day on which 91-Day Treasury Bills can be auctioned prior to June 1. Why is this so important? Because the interest rates for Stafford and PLUS loans are based on this rate.
So with the information available now, it appears that
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Here is an update to where things stand on the Federal Budget end. This also updates you all as to the status of the Perkins Loan action which I know many of you participated in previously (and I thank you for your help there).
This note comes to you
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As you undoubtedly know, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a Direct Lending institution, allowing you to borrow your student loans directly from the federal government, without the complicated involvement of banks and other lenders. Congress
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I just finished dinner with the kids, and am getting ready to watch the last regular episode of Survivor, but before I do, I thought I needed to post a little more on the subject of corrections.
This is me on my soapbox, so if you don't want the preaching,
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If you are an incoming Freshman student, this message is for you!
No grandiose ideas in the title. I know that change is meaningful and that you will be undertaking major changes soon as you close the book on your high school life and prepare to enter
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Just wanted to post a brief update for you all!
Today we mailed 112 award letters to International students who are rising Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Since we mailed these before the end of the term, the award notices were sent to on campus addresses.
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It's May 3rd and hopefully all of you who are planning on attending (new Freshmen, that is) have sent your reply form in. As my friends in Admissions close out their books on the class of 2009, we over here in Student Financial Services are still going
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So, I recognize that you may think that all of your applications are done, you've made your decision, you've committed to MIT, sent in your response form, and you're done. But you may not be...
We have a terrific opportunity for incoming freshmen students
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Something you should know if you will be finishing your undergraduate or graduate education in the next several weeks: you may want to consider consolidating your Federal student loans now instead of waiting until after you graduate.
What is consolidation?
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Sorry all, between dealing with emails (over 200 a day), phone calls (don't even ask), questions from my staff, and just trying to spend a little time with my family, the last two weeks have been INSANE!!! So, I haven't been blogging...
Bad me!
But,
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Hi there.
Probably many of you regular blog readers are on your way here to MIT by now, either winging your way in the friendly skies, catching the Greyhound, or riding the rails. For those of you who want a head start on CPW (or for the many of you
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First the news:
Autumn was down over the weekend. It appears to be back up now!
We mailed 100 awards today, bringing us to files that completed as of last Friday. We still have many of you we would like to award. GET YOUR FORMS IN!!!
We will
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So sorry for the sibilant subject line, but down to business.
Many of you have had questions about how to satisfy your self help. I invite your questions here as comments to this post, and would also urge current students reading this post to offer
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Hey all!
Before I take off for the weekend, I wanted to give a brief description and highlight of what SFS will be doing during CPW (to translate, what those of us who work in “Student Financial Services” will be doing during “Campus Preview Weekend”).
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Sorry I have been an absent partner...
We have been VERY busy trying to keep up with the submission of new documents for people who have not yet received their financial aid award.
So, some quick news:
We are now mailing financial aid award letters
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Today's Boston Globe has a special section on financing your education, and in one article is a blurb about the blog. So, we've made the news!
The article, entitled “Aid offices shed cold image for games, personal approach” reads in part like this:
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We just delivered the last letter to Mail Services and to our International carrier (the one with the yellow envelopes) and the letters are gone!!!
Many pictures to share.
First, some blog news. A little ways back, we passed the 15,000 hit mark, and
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I guess in honor of Paul Revere (and by extension, in honor of Evacuation Day), I was put in mind of his hallmark expression during his midnight ride.
My usage in this blog post's title, though, refers to a much more mundane topic: WE MAIL TOMORROW!
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Happy March 15th! What an exciting week, Pi Day yesterday, the Ides of March today, and St. Patty's day on Thursday (by the way, here in Boston, the local folks get to take the day off on Thursday -- something about an Evacuation Day? -- I don't know,
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Happy Day to all! (And take a look at today's home page for a visual description of ).
I haven't seen anyone wandering down the hall dressed as a this morning (or any other reasonable facsimile), but that is not to say that won't be served at lunch,
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If the letter from us is an incomplete letter, there may be some forms or requests which we want but with which you aren't familiar. Let's keep this post as a place for questions about what we are asking. Post your questions here, and I will try to
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What can I add (to this and this)?
Not much.
Except to say “Stay Tuned”. Much more to come from “moneyman.”
And for those of you who will be getting a large packet with a letter from me explaining what you are missing on your financial aid application,
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So, this morning we delivered all of your financial aid letters to Admissions. Some of them are letters identifying what still needs to be completed in order for us to assist you in providing a financial aid award, and some of them are letters letting
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Hey, we need your help to save the Perkins Loan program. Based on the most recent Federal budget negotiations (proposed from President Bush and heading into the Budget Conference committees for both the House and the Senate), it looks like the Perkins
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So, it has been incredibly busy in my office. As you now know, decisions will be mailed by the Admissions office on March 11. We hope to have financial aid decisions in those envelopes for those of you (EAs, RDs, Internationals) who have provided us
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Jason Hernandez recently posted on one of my previous blog entries that:
“I recently called into the MIT Financial Aid office about the status of my aid application because the documents I submitted were not acknowledged online or in the letters from
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In her blog, Mitra addressed a question from Changelingpiper about the dilemma in whether to choose a full ride offer from another school over acceptance to MIT. Changelingpiper asked Mitra to share her perspective, and Mitra in fact went farther and
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While my colleagues in the Admissions office continue their Selection process, we in the Financial Aid area have begun our annual reading process. We technically started reading applications on Friday the 11th, but since I have been so busy updating
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http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/obrien020705.html
Questions? Comments? Have you followed these suggestions?
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Hi all.
Some of you may be hitting this blog for the first time due to a caption on a letter that just got sent to you. On Friday we dropped in the email and regular mail our first communication to early admits, informing you what forms we have received
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More coming on this later, but here is the url for the article:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/20/pf/college/myths_0502/index.htm
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First catch-up on some questions you may not have seen but have been asked and answered on the feedback pages:
Jessica asked:
as a question, if i am a student who has not worked through high school or over the summer between years in high school, but
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More answers to some of your questions:
Carlos asks "Also, besides the College Board form we (international [prospective] students) need to fill, what other information is required (I know about the Tax Form [my country has one so I am sending that translated
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So, as of December 26th, the Federal government added some new complexities to the PIN. Now the PIN has challenge questions and a notification not to share your PIN with anyone. If you created your PIN very recently, this is a no-brainer since you took
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Today's home page features a profile of scholarship recipients at MIT and what a difference the generosity of our alumni and donors makes for our current students. The feature story can be found here. There is also a letter from President (Emeritus)
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So a bit of long overdue answers to your questions.
Chetan's question was the following: “I recently came across a scholarship offered at nsa.gov where, if accepted, nsa would cover my full tuition in exchange for working over the summer and for 1.5*#
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Hello all.
Well, it is a Friday night and Boston is experiencing its first snowfall of the year. Early in anyone's book, but gorgeous. I am thoroughly enjoying watching the first flakes fall, even as it puts me in mind of my first year in Boston for
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Can anyone go to college for free? Is such a thing even possible? We’ve all heard the story of students who have gotten a “free ride” at X, Y or Z college or university, but is that really the case? Can you get a free ride anywhere? Are there free
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