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How Your College Academic Advisor Can Help You

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on June 4, 2025
Key takeaways: College academic advisors help students navigate course options and graduation requirements. They can also assist with declaring majors, substituting classes, and understanding academic policies and resources. Students should meet with their advisors at least once a year to discuss grades, career goals, and more. College academic advisors directly help students make the most …
ACT and SAT questions aren't actually ordered by difficulty.
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Myth: ACT/ SAT Questions Are Arranged by Difficulty

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on December 22, 2022
With many tests, questions are generally ordered from easiest to most difficult. It’s easy to make the assumption that the ACT and SAT questions would be similar, but that’s not necessarily the case with these entrance exams. Randomized Questions For the most part, the ACT and SAT questions fall into a randomized level of difficulty. …
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Common Student Loan Scams and How To Avoid Them

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on February 25, 2025
With the ever-increasing cost of college, many students need to take out a student loan to pay for college. Looking for low-cost student loans to cover your college tuition can be a trying process. Repaying your loans with interest after graduation can be even more daunting. When you’re under that kind of stress, it’s easy to fall …
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Student Loan Delinquency and How to Avoid it

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on December 22, 2022
Once your college days are over and you have that first post-graduate job, it feels great to be able to be your own person financially and pay for things when you need or want them. One of the negative aspects of this, however, comes in the form of looming student loan delinquency. You signed that …
Unfortunately, federal loan interest rates are on the rise
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Federal Loan Interest Rates On The Rise

By College Raptor StaffLast updated on March 6, 2025
The last thing any student wants to hear is that attending college or graduate school is going to cost more than it did before. Or, that their federal student loan’s interest rate is increasing. Unfortunately, that is the reality. Not only have tuition fees gone up, but federal loan interest rates are on the rise …

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