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Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
Non US citizens can qualify for federal student aid. Read for yourself: http://studentaid.ed.gov/eligibility/non-us-citiz…— August 8, 2012 5:46 p.m.
Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
That depends upon what your particular definition of foreign national is. The federal government considers a foreign national to be: a person who was born outside the jurisdiction of the United States, is a citizen of a foreign government, and has not been naturalized under U.S. law, including resident aliens. According to the Dept of Education website,as a non citizen you can qualify for federal student loan program if you are considered an “eligible noncitizen.” A permanent resident with a Form I-551, I-151, or I-551C (Permanent Resident Card, Resident Alien Card, or Alien Registration Receipt Card), also known as a green card, qualifies as an eligible noncitizen. So you actually CAN receive federal student aid as a "non citizen". BTW, this is just one of FIVE ways a non-U.S. citizen get federal student aid. But ONLY those individuals that meet these requirements can receive federal student aid as a "non citizen".— August 8, 2012 5:43 p.m.
Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
I believe that there are private loans available, ie non US government loans, but they all require a US resident co-signer. Also, I do believe that if an international student has a green card, he/she is eligible to apply for federal student aid.— August 8, 2012 11:32 a.m.
Sweetwater School District Kids Face Bus Cuts
Perhaps the Sweetwater board should think about giving the folks at Poway a call and talk to them about their "creative" financing last year.— August 7, 2012 2:56 p.m.
Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
Jan Michael Vincent in "Tribes".— August 6, 2012 9:50 a.m.
Volquez Falters, Mets Beat Padres
We've seen Volquez pitch a handful times in person now. The thing that has stood out to me most are the BB. According to MLB stats, he leads the majors in that category at almost 3 1/2 per game. In his last start against the Dodgers, 2 of his 4 BB scored and the Dodgers won by 1 run. But in all fairness, you can't lay all of the blame on Volquez; the Padres staff leads the majors in BB issued. When your offense is at or near the bottom in runs scored, giving up that many runs because of BB is hard to over come.— August 5, 2012 5:51 p.m.
CPUC Head Wants Delay of San Onofre Investigation
"And we've been operating those nuclear power plants for over 50 years!" ?????? Not sure what you mean Unit 1 was dismantled in the '90's and Units 2&3 have only been operating since '83 &'84.— August 5, 2012 10:41 a.m.
Padres Solve R. A. Dickey, Beat Mets
Not that my opinion matters, but really being fan of neither team, I'll offer it any way. I didn't see the game, but according to the box, Dickey gave up 2 earned and the catcher was charged an error on Quentin's scoring play. The Padres also only had 4 hits. Considering Dickey's 2.82 ERA and that he gives up almost 6 hits per game, it doesn't seem like the Padres "solved" him. Seems to me to be more of a case that the Mets didn't "solve" Clayton Richard. He's been giving up about 9 hits per game and 4 Runs per game and the Mets couldn't break either thresh hold. But, as Leo Durocher once said, win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. BTW, according to the box, the Padres didn't score in the 5th. I guess you mean the 6th?— August 5, 2012 10:14 a.m.
Screw U: The Next Bubble May Be Higher Education
It's not a total forgiveness. It's has to do with the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 and something called the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. I don't remember all of the details, but I do remember that part of the requirements are making 10 yrs of payments while working in a qualified public service job, including the military, or for a non profit. Like I said, I don't remember all of the details or the specifics, but if you do a google, I'm sure it's there.— August 3, 2012 12:48 p.m.
Will San Onofre Return to Service This November?
Don't know. So far, no heat waves or "mysterious outages". A few weeks ago, one of the SCE VP's said she believed that they would make it thru the summer ok, as long as there wasn't an extended heat wave. What happens if the high pressure system sitting over Texas decides to migrate a few hundred miles to the west, or if a wildfire knocks out a major transmission line? I doesn't even have to occur here in Southern Ca. Remember the rolling blackouts in 2005? That was from a supplier who had a line go down in Oregon that dropped almost 3k megawatts from the system. A similar situation could be pretty bad this time around. I think the question is how do we replace the 2200 mega watts on a permanent basis. That 19% of SCE's power also accounts for over 10% of the regions power. Sooner or later, the cost of importing electricity is going to be passed along to the consumer.— August 1, 2012 7:01 p.m.