Savings and investment accounts owned by parents where the siblings of the applicant are listed as beneficiaries should not be included in any amount reported for PROFILE Question PA-105.
The tool then computes the amount a consumer would save by purchasing the product at the most affordable listed price and lists the savings as a percentage.
Among colleges listed there with both a high percentage of students getting merit aid and a high average dollar amount of aid are Cooper Union (where tuition has historically been free), the University of Miami and Tulane.
Each month, he and colleagues survey 4, 000 real estate agents across the U.S. The topics: what kind of foot traffic those agents see, the price movement of listed properties, incentives offered by home builders, overall inventory of homes on the market and the amount of time needed to close deals.
And while the Kiva's co-founders will not put a dollar figure on the amount they have loaned so far, they do say that every time a new business is listed on the website, the needed funds are raised in just days, or even hours.