The rising tuition cost for MBA year over year made it necessary for applicants to plan ahead of all financial aid & Scholarship resources for full 2-year tuition, Room & boarding.

Here is grand list of MBA Financial Aid & Scholarships websites:

- FinAid Guide
- IEFA
- London Business School
- Military Benefits MBA Scholarships
- SalliMae
- Online Guide Book from UKCOSA - PDF file
- Podcasts
- Free Scholarship Search.
- Fundsnetservices
- Gradloans
- Cornell loans
- Financial Resources for Students of DiverseBackgrounds
- Financing Your BSchool Degree
- Studentawards
- usajobs.gov/studentjobs/ - Federal government student Jobs.
- collegescholarships
- Stanford drops tuition for some students - Check Stanford if it applies for MBA programs.

- most-expensive-colleges-for-2009-2010 (This is for undergraduate schools)

- VERY SCARY Student Loans by the Numbers (GRAPHIC)(Courtesy - Mint)




Investment help from Mint.com

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EduFire is web 2.0 tutoring site making easier for GMAT test takers to find tutors and learn with them. EduFire started as a language learning site, based on video tutoring and conversations. Say if you are in India and is preparing for GMAT, EduFire has tutors from around the world, it is easy to find the tutor who matches your criteria. If you are a tutor you can make some decent money that your students pay and Edufire collects 15% service fee. Tutors can set their own prices. Other similar tutoring sites focus more on K-12 education, EduFire focuses on the 18 to 35-year-old students.

The tutoring rates for GMAT as of writing this post varied from $12 to $69. The fee is based on hourly rate. After a session (may contain multiple hours) is finished, a student will receive an invoice to pay the tutoring fee. Student pays EduFire, and EduFire send the funds to tutors via PayPal within 48 hours.

How good the service will be compared to that offered by Kaplan or Princeton Review ? My opinion EduFire needs more time to build a database of tutor ratings as students take these lessons. Once this model catches up I feel it will compete strongly against Kaplan, Princeton Review, GMAT Manhattan and Veritas in online GMAT tutoring space. One more observation I have is when GMAT tutors compete among themselves in EduFire then there is a good chance that hourly rates may come down drastically.

Business Model is good that a medium/channel is provide by Edufire to bring tutors and students together. It is just not GMAT they have other tests too -- ACT, CPA, DAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX, PSAT, SAT, TOEFL and TOEICIf it clicks or disappears in vacuum is to be seen.

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Lifehacker.com is popular productivity blog and Scott Berkun from Harvard asks grilling questions of how MBAs can benefit from Lifehacker's productivity tips. As Gina puts it MBA teaches structured learning with problem-solving and case studies and gives less importance to manage one's own time in an effective way.

The advice I like is how to choose from multiple productivity systems ? Choose one system that best fits you and stick to it.

Question #4 about working in teams is the best answer I feel Gina gave :

I think there can be a huge amount of value in cross-pollinating people's work styles. A few years back I did a fair amount of pair programming, and while it was at times frustrating and awkward, I learned a lot from seeing how someone else does things and thinks.
The key is finding and working with the people who help you and don't slow you down. My racquetball coach always told me to "play up" -- meaning, always try to play against an opponent who's better. No matter how bad getting beaten by that person feels, it still raises your game. I think that's true at work as well.

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