ACT Podcast provides financial aid information


Published/Last Modified on Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:53 PM MST


Parents and students who want to know more about financial aid now have the option of listening to tips from a college financial aid professional on ACT's student website.


Prep Talk is a free podcast that covers a number of college planning topics. Parents and students can listen online or download the program to computers or MP3 players. In the latest podcast-on financial aid-Cathy Wilcox, senior associate director in the office of student financial aid at the University of Iowa, answers questions families want to know about filing for financial aid and working with a college financial aid office.

Her advice will help guide students regardless of the college or university they're considering.

Other editions of Prep Talk cover topics such as taking the right courses for college, preparing for the ACT, visiting a college campus and planning for college.

To hear the podcasts, go to http://www.actblog.org/podcasts.php

ACT is a not-for-profit organization that serves millions of people in schools, colleges, professional associations, businesses, and government agencies with programs and services that have one guiding purpose - to help people achieve education and workplace success. For more information about ACT, visit www.act.org.

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