Kara Lilly

If you are a full-time student looking to study to be a doctor of science in pharmacy; or a doctor of dentistry, podiatric medicine, optometry, or veterinary medicine, you may be eligible for the need-based Health Professions Student Loan (HPSL), designed to provide financial assistance in the form of long-term loans.

You are a senior in high school and you will be starting college soon. There will be some concerns you and your parents will need to look at before starting your first semester?

If you have been out of high school for a while and are tired of working in a dead-end career, you probably have considered going back to college.

We hear about it all the time, multi-millionaires who succeed despite not having a college education. So you might be asking yourself or your child might ask, why should I go to college?

We all could use a little help in making learning a little easier. With simple strategies, you can help yourself or your child learn to perfect test taking and improve study skills.

So your child is ready to go off to college and you are perplexed over how you will pay for their education? If you are like most parents, you have heard of scholarships and loans but when it comes to the details, here is where you get hung up. If this is the case, here is a short synopsis of how to interpret college finance terminology.

While being mostly need based, your financial aid package usually has three parts: Grants, Student Loans and Work-Study. Grants are free gifts, which unlike student loans, you never have to repay! Student loans come in various forms. Do pay close attention to your financial aid package each year. Even though your financial aid package total is the same, the distribution of grants, student loans and work-study may change on an annual basis. There is Private, non-college aid that you may be eligi