{"id":69637,"date":"2020-02-14T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69637"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:57:46","slug":"tips-for-decoding-college-financial-aid-offers-carrnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/14\/tips-for-decoding-college-financial-aid-offers-carrnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for decoding college financial aid offers [Carrnes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/14\/your-money\/college-financial-aid-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tips for decoding college financial aid offers<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from nytimes.com by Ann Carrnes<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Schools often use different jargon for the same types of aid or loans. Student advocates offer suggestions on how to figure out what you\u2019ll pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">After the college acceptance letter comes the financial aid offer. But beware: The offers are not always easy to decipher, and different colleges often use different jargon for the same types of aid or loans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Among the colleges that offered a common type of federal loan, for instance, researchers found more than 100 terms for the loan, including two dozen that didn\u2019t even mention the word \u201cloan.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To compare aid offers, student advocates recommend that you&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/14\/your-money\/college-financial-aid-tips.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>(see the details in the article)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for decoding college financial aid offers &#8212; from nytimes.com by Ann Carrnes Excerpts: Schools often use different jargon for the same types of aid or loans. Student advocates offer suggestions on how to figure out what you\u2019ll pay. After the college acceptance letter comes the financial aid offer. But beware: The offers are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,57,159,211,3,560,480,66,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69639,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions\/69639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}