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Welcome to the SimpleTuition Resource Center, where you will find easy-to-understand information and objective insights on student loans, financial aid, college funding, student loan consolidation and more.

• Students
• Parents

Tuition Talk: A Forum for Students & Families
on Financial Aid, Student Loans and Paying for College

Greetings!

We've created this forum for us to exchange ideas as students, parents, and professionals concerned with paying for college and the issues surrounding financial aid and student loans.

I'll post a topic - sometimes advice, sometimes just fodder for thought - every few weeks and we encourage you to share your own thoughts, opinions and experiences. Each post has a forum for adding comments. Scroll down to see the list of topics. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Kevin Walker
CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleTuition

Kevin has more than 11 years experience in the student lending business. He was an early employee of First Marblehead, the leading provider of back-office services for private student loans. Kevin also served as a Principal at the management consulting firm, the Parthenon Group. And his first professional endeavor was the founding of an education company in Russia. Kevin holds a BA from Amherst and an MBA from Harvard. He has about 11 years before he has to fill out the FAFSA for his oldest daughter.

Topics

• Student loans and the credit "crunch" (March 2008)
  
• Second semester blues & tuition payment plans (February 2008)
  
• The cost of attendance, part 2 (January 2008)
  
• The cost of attendance, part 1 (October 2007)
• Private loans: don't call them "alternative" (October 2007)
• The skinny on student loan co-signers (September 2007)
• The hierarchy of student borrowing (September 2007)
• Smart tactics for choosing private student loans (September 2007)