Comments on: Cal who? It’s not too late to get clued in about financial aid for college http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/01/22/cal-who-its-not-too-late-to-get-clued-in-about-financial-aid-for-college/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Fri, 17 May 2013 21:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jake http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/01/22/cal-who-its-not-too-late-to-get-clued-in-about-financial-aid-for-college/comment-page-1/#comment-15836 Jake Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:13:59 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/01/22/cal-who-its-not-too-late-to-get-clued-in-about-financial-aid-for-college/#comment-15836 The Cash for College Workshops are a project of the East Bay Consortium. EBC is a fantastic organization that does work at almost all of the schools in Oakland. They’ve got a true cadre of dedicated young professionals guiding our students into college. We’re lucky to have them.

And they’ve done a great job recruiting assistance from other education programs (like the one I work for) to help out at these events!

]]> By: Chris Dobbins http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/01/22/cal-who-its-not-too-late-to-get-clued-in-about-financial-aid-for-college/comment-page-1/#comment-15835 Chris Dobbins Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:15:01 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2008/01/22/cal-who-its-not-too-late-to-get-clued-in-about-financial-aid-for-college/#comment-15835 Katy,

Thanks for the important story and update. There are plenty of grants and funding sources for post k-12 education. FAFSA is a great program through the federal government that provides funding sources; generally regardless of eligibility. I would encourage students (and those of us who want to go back to school) to take advantage. The drawback is that with the high cost of higher education, the borrower has taken on a “second mortgage,” so to speak and will be paying it off for the foreseeable future. Ultimately, the student benefits from the education and will greatly increase their chances of future job earnings.

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