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"Oklahoma's Promise" program-AKA Oklahoma's Higher Learning Access Program (OHLAP)

Eighth through 10th grade students from families that make $50,000 or less already can sign up for free college tuition. 800 858-1840 or [url]www.okpromise.org[/url]

Those attending Northeastern State University also will receive as much as $500 per semester to pay for other academic expenses. (Starting this fall the YES!Northeastern progam will provide to Freshmen as much as $500 a semester for four years for books, fees and university housing. Deadline April 1www.nsuok.edu or call 918 444-3470

OSU and OU have similar programs.


Here is a good place to find money for college: [url]http://scholarships.com/[/url]

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Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (T. Boone Pickens) Chairman of the private equity firm BP Capital Management, with an estimated current net worth of around $2.7 billion, is ranked by Forbes as the 103-richest person in America.

He loves Oklahoma State University! His total contributions to OSU come to over $290 million dollars. Over $265 million, or 92%, of his donations have been towards athletics. Pickens also has made substantial academic gifts to Oklahoma State University, particularly to the School of Geology, which is named for him.