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For years, teenagers have used the Internet to connect with their families and friends. Now, they're using it to connect with strangers who can help them pay for college. Take Eddie Ashley, a recent graduate of Oakland Technical High School in California. As a high school senior, Ashley wasn't sure how he would pay for his first year at the University of California Riverside, where he hoped to pursue a career goal in environmental engineering. He had lost his mother to an autoimmune disease in middle school, and although he managed to maintain good grades while caring for his younger ...
Crowd-Funded Student Loans: Vittana Brings Microfinance to Campuses Worldwide
CHICAGO – In the United States, when college students don't have enough money for school tuition, they complete financial aid applications and hope for government loans. In other parts of the world, the process works somewhat differently. "In most developing countries, student loans just don't exist," said Kushal Chakrabarti, the son of first-generation immigrants and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. "No matter what your grades are, if your family doesn't have the money, you just can't go to college." This reality is familiar to Nardith Torres Marcelo, a ...
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