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Thousands of students’ college loans fall through</p>
<p>A month before school starts, incoming freshmen told state lacks ‘B On Time’ funding
Dallas Morning News</p>
<p>This week – just a month before heading off to the University of Texas at Austin – Brad Barmer got an unwelcome surprise.</p>
<p>That $5,170 interest-free loan he was counting on this year? He won’t be getting it.</p>
<p>Instead, Mr. Barmer and some 700 other incoming freshmen at UT – and thousands more college-bound students across the state – won’t see a dime from the Texas “B On Time” loan program.</p>
<p>Just this month, the state notified college financial aid offices that the program doesn’t have enough money to go around. So new students must go without.</p>
<p>Colleges are now scrambling to tell students, many of whom have already paid admissions deposits and signed apartment leases.</p>
<p>Mr. Barmer said he and his future roommate, who’s in the same leaky financial boat, are upset…"
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