Paying for school
Where the money for a year of study actually comes from, and in what order it arrives.
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Six topics, written to be read before you decide
No headline here tells you what you qualify for or quotes a figure as though it were yours, because no website is in a position to do either. Where an official page is the authority, it is linked rather than paraphrased.
Applications and forms
What each form is asking for, why it asks, and what to have ready before you start.
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Choosing a programme
Questions that change the cost of a decision, asked before the decision rather than after.
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Student costs
The figures that decide whether a year works, most of which are not tuition.
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Avoiding scams
The patterns worth recognising, and the things no legitimate organisation will ask you for.
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Returning to study
What is different when you are not coming straight from school.
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The authority is studentaid.gov. Rules, figures and dates change between
academic years, so these pages explain how things work rather than restating numbers that
will go out of date. Start at studentaid.gov.
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