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  • SOME TALKING POINTS YOU CAN USE AT A GRADUATION CEREMONY
    May 9, 2005 - College Parents of America
    Many of you will be attending high school or college graduation ceremonies in the coming weeks, either for your own child or the child of a family member, neighbor or friend. As you may have noticed over the years, those ceremonies also tend to attract federal politicians,...
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  • THE GROUND RULES FOR NEED-BASED AID? AT LEAST THERE ARE SOME
    April 25, 2005 - College Parents of America
    The provision of need-based financial aid, at a need-blind school, may be frustrating sometimes in its outcome, but at least it is fairly easy to understand for parents and straightforward to administer for the college or university.
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  • 4 Steps to Cringe-Free Networking
    Advance your career with a little help from your friends
    April 25, 2005 - College Parents of America
    by Alexandra Levit
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  • Tips for Buying and Selling College Textbooks
    Prepared by the National Association of College Stores
    April 17, 2005 - College Parents of America
    Buying Textbooks: Strategies for Buying and Returning Books Selling Textbooks: Why Aren't My Books Worth More at BuyBack? Selling Books Back Online: Avoid Getting Burned 1. Buying Textbooks Strategies for Buying and Returning Books Selected by instructors, textbooks...
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  • Where the Boys Aren't
    April 16, 2005 - College Parents of America
    Yet another study was released this past week trying to address the question of whether and why boys are turning away from higher education. This study, conducted by the American Council on Education and based on a two-year-old data, seems to show that boys are indeed...
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  • Administrator Promoting Parental Involvement
    April 4, 2005 - College Parents of America
    The times they are a changin may be a song from the baby-boom era, but it is also a phrase that aptly describes how colleges are beginning to treat parents. Until the beginning of the 1990s, it was rare for any college or university to think of parents as anything other...
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  • It's Crunch Time for High School Seniors
    March 28, 2005 - College Parents of America
    When it comes to information, our goal at College Parents of America is to provide you with the very best. Sometimes, that's as easy as point and click, as we utilize our Parent Resource Center to guide you to links that contain constantly updated and always valuable...
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  • From Kalamazoo to New Orleans, the Song is the Same: HELP!
    March 21, 2005 - College Parents of America
    After a winter spent stationary in the Washington, DC area, I had the occasion to venture out twice in the past week to meet with real families facing very real concerns about the process of preparing for, applying to and financing of college. Mid-week, I traveled to...
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  • Our Mission Is to Serve You – the Current and Future College Parent
    March 14, 2005 - College Parents of America
    About a year-and-a-half ago, when we started to construct our benefits offering at College Parents of America, we had ambitious goal - to effectively serve the huge, and growing, market of families who are supporting their children on the path to and through college. Our...
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  • Beyond The Apprentice: What Young Employees Really Need to Know to Succeed in the Business World
    March 8, 2005 - College Parents of America
    By Alexandra Levit When I landed a job in a top public relations firm after my college graduation, I thought the toughest part of my entry into Corporate America was over. I dumped my extra resumes in a recycling bin and eagerly awaited a paycheck that would scarcely cover...
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