0. About Your Award
0. About Your Award
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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Hey all!
Sorry for the long delay in posting but life has been crazy for me... Since we last spoke:
I've traveled to Philadelphia for a 568 group meeting. We've started discussing proposed changes and refinements to the methodology we use to determine
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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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Well as one year ends, another begins...
Today we are sending out nearly 1200 upperclass student award letters. This is the first round of award letters for upperclass domestic students for 2005-2006 (we started sending international upperclass student
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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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Time to talk a little about Alternative Loans.
First let's make sure we are all talking about the same things. When I use the term “Alternative Loans” I mean loans that are taken by parents (and/or students) which are used to finance your Expected Family
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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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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 all.
First off, let me say that I am really enjoying the feedback on the previous post. My one logic puzzle has turned into a thread of logic puzzles with a really hard one which Michael posted (Jane and her dad just answered it -- I think), and
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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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OK, so your financial aid award has arrived (by the way, we sent 60 more decisions today), and you are somewhat (or extremely) disappointed with the result.
What do you do?
Well, first, breathe... Take a deep breath in, and exhale. Then, take a look
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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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In order to answer some of the questions that I am sure will be coming, I thought I would describe the process by which we award students (or put together financial aid packages for students). Much of this information is printed in the guidebook to the
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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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