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4 Myths About Athletic Scholarships 10/03/2017 08:00pm • Bruce Mesa Sr. knew a football scholarship could be a possibility when recruiters started visiting to see his son play as a junior at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. An offensive lineman, Bruce Mesa Jr. was one of the few in the school's history to play all four years on the v 7 Tips to Close Your Mortgage Faster 10/03/2017 08:00pm • When you're looking to buy the perfect home in a hot real estate market, timing is everything. You certainly don't want to lose out on a home because you can't get to the closing table quickly enough for the seller. Unfortunately, some things are out of your control. Especially when it comes to you Is Your Lender Judging You? 10/02/2017 08:00pm • Whether you realize it or not, asking for a loan can be a little like asking someone out on a date. The moment a person is asked on a date, he or she obviously sizes up their prospective partner. Few people would say, "Yes, let's go on a date," if they didn't think there was something positive about The Fate of Public Service Loan Forgiveness 10/02/2017 08:00pm • With more than $300,000 in student debt from both college and medical school, anesthesiologist Dr. Jesse Kiefer is banking on the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to discharge his debt after 10 years of payments. Kiefer is less than a quarter of the way through the process, which invo 11 Most Common Credit Score Mistakes 10/02/2017 08:00pm • You use your credit card regularly, pay the bill every month and avoid taking on too much debt. Your credit score must be in great shape, right? Maybe not. Even the most well-intentioned credit users can end up harming their credit by making simple mistakes. And having good credit is important, eve Weigh the Pros, Cons of Part-Time Law School 10/01/2017 08:00pm • Life is full of demands -- from family to career to other obligations or interests. Prospective law students may wonder how they can balance these responsibilities and attend law school full time. Fortunately, many law schools offer part-time programs. As you consider whether to pursue a law degree TIPS Are a Hedge Against Inflation 10/01/2017 08:00pm • Inflation hasn't been much of an issue in recent years, but investors of a certain age will never forget how prices skyrocketed in the late '70s and early '80s. Fortunately, investors worried about future inflation have various ways to offset the risk, like owning Treasury inflation-protected securi 3 Things to Fix on Your Credit Report 09/28/2017 08:00pm • If you've ever received a phone call from a debt collector looking for someone else who owes money, thinking that person might be you, you may want to check your credit report and start looking for errors. There might be a number of innocuous reasons why a debt collector would call you for a debt th 4 Ways to Protect Yourself From Financial Disasters 09/28/2017 08:00pm • When it comes to unexpected bills, such as car repair or medical bills, most of us are not prepared. And as financial disasters, such as a job loss or a debilitating medical condition, get more serious, the less prepared we are. A 2015 study from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that more than half What Are the Right Choices in College Admissions? 09/27/2017 08:00pm • Which Path Is Better?The college admissions process requires applicants to make a series of tough decisions that range from how many recommendation letters to submit to which financial aid package to choose.Use the following advice from three admissions experts to understand how to choose wisely in U.S. News Data: Explore Admissions Trends at the Top Public Colleges 09/27/2017 08:00pm • Getting admitted to a top public college is becoming tougher, as applicant pools grow and average acceptance rates fall. That's one finding of an analysis of data submitted by the top 10 highest-ranked public colleges and universities in the 2008 through 2018 editions of U.S. News' National Univers Everything You Need to Know About Credit Scores 09/26/2017 08:00pm • If you had to choose whether to disclose your weight or your credit score to the world, which would you choose? If you're like 70 percent of Americans, you'd rather keep your credit score to yourself. It's no wonder -- the world of credit scores is confusing and fraught with misinformation. Sometime Stay Informed to Make Wise Student Debt Choices 09/26/2017 08:00pm • The new school year is fully upon us. By now, college students have hopefully developed a routine -- and settled any remaining student loan shortfalls. If you took on more debt to do this, you likely did so to get through this semester or year. Ideally, you also thought about how these decisions cou 6 Financial ETFs to Buy Now 09/26/2017 08:00pm • With the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting now behind us, major bank stocks have been firming up. Big names like Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America Corp. ( BAC) have jumped more than 5 percent percent in September, more than doubling the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 index in Latin America Is Wary of China, Despite Closer Ties 09/24/2017 08:00pm • LIMA, Peru -- When Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales for a bilateral summit in Lima earlier this month, a long-mooted interoceanic train was on the agenda once again. The idea is for the railway to run more than 2,000 miles from Brazil's Atlantic c