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23 votes
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What it’s like to graduate from college while inside an Illinois prison
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Everyone is cheating their way through college
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California community colleges are losing millions to financial aid fraud
12 votes -
The secret that US colleges should stop keeping
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
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Lawsuit reveals how US colleges really talk about rich applicants
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Lawsuit reveals how United States private colleges talk about rich applicants
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Graduated in December 2023, but federal student loan servicer still lists my loan status as "in school" and that repayments will not begin until December 2025?
Screenshot for clarity My understanding was that after I graduated, I would have a six-month grace period, during which no loan payments would be due. At some point during that six-month grace...
My understanding was that after I graduated, I would have a six-month grace period, during which no loan payments would be due.
At some point during that six-month grace period, my university should have notified "the feds" or my loan servicer that I had graduated, so that they could appropriately adjust my loan status and start date of my repayments.
Well, we are seven, almost eight months post-graduation, and my loan repayments still are not due to begin until December 2025.
I'm still looking for a job, so if I can continue to put off repayment, that would be great.
Of course, if my loan status finally updates, and the servicer realizes I was supposed to start repayment in July 2024, but didn't, then that would not be great.
What do?
Literally this evening I intended to just go ahead and sign up for the SAVE plan, so I wouldn't have any payments until I got a job, even if my loan servicer woke up and realized their mistake. Unfortunately, republicans hate America, so that plan is looking dead in the water. I might go ahead and try to sign up anyways. Maybe I will continue to get lucky.
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Who gets paid? How much? What to know about the landmark NCAA settlement.
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"The university campus is rapidly becoming a locus of infantilizing social control that any independent-minded student should seek to escape"
42 votes -
$1 billion donation will provide free tuition at a Bronx medical school
21 votes -
Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? Four scholars weigh in.
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Advice on choosing a class to take to meet scholarship requirements
I am currently frustrated with having to pick another 2 hours of classes to take to maintain eligibility of a scholarship. I can't take any more major (CS) related classes, as I do not have all...
I am currently frustrated with having to pick another 2 hours of classes to take to maintain eligibility of a scholarship. I can't take any more major (CS) related classes, as I do not have all the prerequisites. I can't take any lower core classes as I have finished them all, from getting my general ed AA degree first. There are little filler electives I can take. One of them being first aid, a class that everyone says I need to take. However I do not want to take that class, it will be online and I had that professor for another online class last semester. I did not like the class at all. It was a read the textbook and answer the questions kind of class with no professor interaction at all. I think the first aid class will be exactly like that as well. There are some 1 hour classes I could choose from, however that would mean 2 more classes to juggle just to meet scholarship requirements. I am frustrated with this for multiple reasons, I'm indecisive, I've been putting it off all summer, and classes will start back very soon (aug 24th). I have tried talking to my family about it, but it ends up being a "you need to get this done" or a "just take the first aid course". They make choosing a class sound so simple when it is not as other stuff to juggle through. With it being so late it adds even more problems, as classes are filled up and deadlines are soon.
Does tildes have any advice about this? Anything you want to comment or add?
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Study of elite US college admissions data suggests being very rich is its own qualification
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Nine tips on community college
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US Supreme Court strikes down race-based admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina
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Any Tildes users in college? Dorm or off-campus living for the first year?
I’m attending college this fall and moving cross country for this move. I wanted to ask everyone who’s currently in college or graduated not too long ago on whether if it’s worth it to stay...
I’m attending college this fall and moving cross country for this move. I wanted to ask everyone who’s currently in college or graduated not too long ago on whether if it’s worth it to stay on-campus in the dorms.
I heard you get assigned a roommate and some dorms, depending on which one you get, can have 1-3 additional roommates.
I’ve always had my own room and the closest thing I’ve had to a roommate was my little sister…but she had her own room as well.
I know staying on campus it’s easier to get to class and I get to live the traditional college experience. I don’t mind having a roommate but I heard if you have a shitty one, it’s not gonna be fun.
The perks of having your own apartment you get the ability of having your own space and doing whatever you want with no dorm monitors right? Only downside is paying rent?
If you have any insight or experience to share I'd love to hear them! 🙏
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The rise of the "trauma essay" in college applications | Tina Yong
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My college students are not ok
23 votes -
US lawsuit says sixteen elite colleges are part of price-fixing cartel
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace and outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
29 votes -
Becker College (Worcester, Massachusetts) closing its doors
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Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness
9 votes -
Is college still worth it?
11 votes -
The enduring relevance of college radio
5 votes -
America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
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“I feel that the future I’ve been working towards my whole life is gone now” — What United States college students have to say about the coronavirus
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College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era
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Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sues Betsy DeVos over “reprehensible” new sexual assault rules
5 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
6 votes -
Small colleges were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence.
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Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
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Cost matters: Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
10 votes -
It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
10 votes -
Exploring a Detroit abandoned college
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College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
15 votes -
The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
20 votes -
Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
7 votes -
Increasingly competitive college admissions: much more than you wanted to know
5 votes -
The corporations devouring American colleges
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All-male historically Black Morehouse College will admit transgender men
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Elite US colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
7 votes