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October tasks for high school seniors

By Catherine Mueller During your senior year, you will finalize your college choice. This year is filled with admission applications, scholarship essays, financial aid information, and the need to meet deadlines. Throughout your senior year, continue to build your resume by achieving academic success, as well as participating in extracurricular activities. Colleges are interested in well-rounded

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Mapping Your Future introduces new website design to benefit students, families, schools

By Catherine Mueller Mapping Your Future recently redesigned its website to provide a fresh look, while still providing access to important information regarding money management and planning and paying for college, as well as information for financial aid professionals. Students, parents, counselors and financial aid professionals will now find easier access to college, career, money management,

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How to navigate the new Mapping Your Future website

By Catherine Mueller With every move, things are in a new place. The new design of the Mapping Your Future website features revised navigation and new graphics. The home page contains a variety of information about Mapping Your Future, including links to recent Newsroom posts. The top navigation for the website includes tabs for Home, About

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Mapping Your Future website and contact information updates

By Beth Ziehmer Exciting things are happening at Mapping Your Future! In particular, the long-awaited new website is within days of being released. The homepage will remain MappingYourFuture.org, but other pages may have a new web address. The new website will provide much of the same content to which you are accustomed, with a fresh, updated

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Practice budgeting skills with summer job earnings

By Catherine Mueller A summer job offers many benefits for students in addition to the money earned. Of course, there’s the opportunity for work experience, but students can also practice some important life skills with their summer jobs. One of those life skills is managing a budget (sometimes called a spending plan) for those summer earnings.

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Updated “preview” presentation now available for the current FAFSA

By Catherine Mueller At first, it seems a little unusual – receiving an update to a FAFSA preview presentation when the 2024-25 FAFSA was released almost 6 months ago. But, then again, this year has been anything but typical. In a June 12 update to an Electronic Announcement issued last year, the Department of Education said

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