THE ULTIMATE COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID GUIDE: UNDERSTAND THE AID OFFER & ASK FOR MORE MONEY
Author: Diana Barbu
Publisher: Diana Barbu
ISBN-13: 978-1736187517
Only 40% of college students graduate within four years, often due to financial challenges. That’s why understanding financial aid is vital. You've selected schools, applied, and been accepted—now it’s time to explore financial aid and find the best academic and financial fit. This book will guide you to decode your financial aid offer, calculate your out-of-pocket costs, ask for more aid to make college more affordable, compare colleges based on costs, understand what may happen to aid after the freshman year, and determine the maximum amount of debt to take on for education.
PAYING FOR COLLEGE, 2025: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAXIMIZE FINANCIAL AID AND AFFORD COLLEGE
Author: The Princeton Review & others
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN-13: 978-0593517864
Take control of your financial aid experience with this essential guide—the only annual guidebook with line-by-line instructions for completing the FAFSA aid forms! With the latest changes to the FAFSA, it's never been more intimidating. With line-by-line instructions for filling out the FAFSA and consumer-friendly advice to minimize college costs, Paying for College helps you maximize your financial aid eligibility, explore long- and short-term strategies to reduce college costs, complete the FAFSA and CSS Profile aid applications, compare aid offers and learn how to appeal them if necessary. Get advice for handling the 2024–2025 “FAFSA Fiasco”
HOW TO APPEAL FOR MORE COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID: THE SECRETS TO NEGOTIATING A BETTER FINANCIAL AID OFFER…
Author: Mark Kantrowitz
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN-13: 978-1793298447
Appealing for more financial aid depends on presenting adequate documentation of special circumstances that affect the family’s ability to pay for college. This book provides a guide for students and families on how to appeal for more financial aid, how to improve the likelihood of a successful appeal and techniques for increasing eligibility for need-based financial aid and merit aid. The topics covered include corrections, updates, special circumstances, writing an effective financial aid appeal letter, adequate documentation, professional judgment adjustments, unusual circumstances, dependency overrides and the differences between the FAFSA and CSS Profile forms.
8 STEPS TO PAYING LESS FOR COLLEGE: A CRASH COURSE IN SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AND FINANCIAL AID (COLLEGE ADMISSIONS GUIDES)
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN-13: 978-0525568001
Financial aid made easy! This concise, easy-to-follow guide breaks the confusing college financial aid process down into 8 simple steps to help you afford your education, how to apply for financial aid get more financial aid.
Armed with the checklists, timelines, this book is designed to be a quick primer covering the most useful core financial aid information. For students and parents looking for comprehensive, A-Z guidance—including long-term strategies and step-by-step help on the forms—check out Paying for College, The Princeton Review's classic and definitive guide to the A-to-Zs of financial aid.
MEXICAN AMERICANS IN WEST TEXAS
Author: Arnoldo De León
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 9781682831892
Mexican Americans in West Texas is an essential work investigating the human geography of a key Texas region. The many county histories, essays, and articles from the Journal of Big Bend Studies, the West Texas Historical Association Year Book, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly decreased their coverage of historical occurrences in the region around the last decades of the twentieth century. Considered broadly, the book may be deemed a synthesis of published accounts that capture the course of events and historical currents that transpired in the vast expanse west of the 100th meridian.
RIPPED APART: UNSETTLING NARRATIVES OF TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION
Author: Vanessa de Veritch Woodside
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 9781682830710
Ripped Apart: Unsettling Narratives of Transnational Migration is an innovative and interdisciplinary analysis of Latina narratives of transnational migration that underscore the intersections of the physical, psychological, sociocultural, and legal / structural traumas endured by migrants and their families. Grounded in theories of narrative empathy and the representation of trauma, Ripped Apart analyzes the techniques that Latina writers of various literary genres deploy to develop empathy, interrogate the representation of migrants in dominant discourse, and condemn the structures and institutions that continue to contribute to the separation of families.
EMBROIDERERS OF NINHUE
AUTHOR: CARMEN BERNAVENTE
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 9780896726482
For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the “place of stones”—their village in the foothills of the Coastal Range between Santiago and Concepción. Their work stands today among the most evocative of Chilean arts, as evocative as the story of how a remarkable group of women came together amid the political upheaval of 1971, when stitchery expert Carmen Benavente returned to her native Santiago and taught the women of Ninhue wool embroidery. What followed is the story of empowered by their new undertaking.
PLÁTICAS – CONVERSATIONS WITH HISPANO WRITERS OF NEW MEXICO
Author: Nasario García
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-13: 9780896724280
Pláticas: Conversations with Hispano Writers of New Mexico is a series of interviews with six remarkable contemporary Hispano writers from. The conversations found here represent a sketch of New Mexican Hispanic intellectual and artistic history that has not been assembled elsewhere. Nasario García’s interviews elicit candid commentary and spontaneous responses that reveal much about life experiences, the creative process, and the unique role that culture, tradition, and geography play in the literature that these writers have produced. Readers will be enticed to discover this wealth of creative literary talent unique to New Mexico.
