CollegeSurfing.com, a leading career education portal, provides financial aid advice and resources to students, easing their stress and confusion. Staten Island, NY (PRWeb) February 14, 2007 -- February and March mark deadline crunch time when it comes to college financial aid. The process can be especially daunting for nontraditional students who do not have the benefit of a college counselor to help them, and have been out of the school loop for some years. CollegeSurfing.com's Student Services channel (http://www.collegesurfing.com/student-service) offers several free resources to help ease the stress of college financial planning -- as well as other areas -- while helping users learn how to maximize their financial aid potential at a school of their choice.

The good news, as reported in the article, "Federal Financial Aid for Nontraditional Students" within CollegeSurfing.com's Financial Aid resource section (http://www.collegesurfing.com/content/cat/242), is that Federal financial aid is available to those enrolled in eligible programs at accredited schools participating in federal financial aid programs. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education will provide more than $78 billion this year, about 60 percent of all student aid, to help millions of students and families pay for postsecondary education.

The mission of CollegeSurfing.com is to inform users how to apply for such aid, as well as ways to seek out scholarship and grant opportunities, navigate the student loan process, and more. Among the site's free school locator, tools, articles, resources, and an interactive community, visitors can post their specific questions on the CollegeSurfing Insider blog (http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog), and read about get-ahead strategies such as how to assess if an education program is worth taking on debt.

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