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March 2009
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Book Review: 411 SAT Prep Series
Once a week I try to review some book related to college in order to lend some guidance to a field that has become completely overrun. So many people are writing test guides and college guides that it is easy to buy a book that is not useful and that will be occupying space on [...]
March ’09 Top College Post Winners
This is the first edition of the Top Posts for Frugal Scholars Contest. Once a month, I post links to the posts that I consider best for that month. This month’s winning posts consider important issues such as frugal travel tips, exceptional note taking skills, dangerous spending habits, and more. Each winning blog receives a [...]
5 Ways to Waste Study Time
What is the best way to to spend time in college? Studying. What is the most difficult way to spend time in college? Once again, studying. Today, I will explain five of the most dangerous enemies of quality study time. Poor Organization – A badly organized desk creates a badly organized brain. If it takes five minutes to [...]
20 Free Online Courses from Traditional Colleges and Universities
This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer. She writes about top online colleges for OnlineColleges.net (RSS). More and more traditional colleges and universities are beginning to offer free online courses to self-learners around the world. Although most of the courses are of the non-credit variety, these freebies do provide quality online education through lectures, [...]
Why Take CLEP Tests?
The CLEP test is one of the best alternative methods for earning college credit. However, many students have never heard of the CLEP testing program, or, if the have, they do not know of it’s advantages. Today we will look at four reasons to take the CLEP test. Save time – This is one of the [...]
Introducing…Top Ten Posts For Frugal Scholars
Trying to find useful in-depth articles about completing college frugally can be quite difficult. Therefore, in order to make it easier for you, Debt-free Scholar (this blog) is now hosting a once-a-month contest for the top posts related to frugal scholars. Any blog can enter. Of all the entries, only the top ten will be [...]
Book Review: American Government (CQR)
Once a week I try to review some book related to college in order to lend some guidence to a field that has become completely overrun. So many people are writing test guides and college guides that it is easy to buy a book that is not useful and that will be occupying space on [...]
12 Ways to Waste Money in College
The road through college is covered with sink holes waiting to be filled with your hard-earned dollars. Today, I will discuss twelve common ways that money is wasted in college. Dropping out of classes – College classes are expensive. Quitting or failing college classes is even more expensive. Just dropping one class a quarter can cost you more [...]
4 Steps to Passing the CLEP
What is a CLEP test? CLEP is the acronym for College Level Examination Program. This program is run by College Board, the same company that produces the SAT. CLEP tests give you college credit for knowledge you already possess. Whether you have learned a skill through on-the-job training, an internship, of independent study, you can easily [...]
Big Changes!
Well, for the past week I have been working on a number of exciting changes. Today, they have all been completed! New Location – This blog has moved! We are no longer on a blogspot domain. Our new domain name is www.DebtFreeScholar.com. The old blog will still be around for a while, but all new articles will be [...]
