{"id":5871,"date":"2015-05-13T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:49:54","slug":"marquell-moorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/13\/marquell-moorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquell Moorer &#8217;17 discusses college search experience with NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5QVVm7ltpRFiKh-US_xV7RsiqcQKJ4q-sWl9W_uaFpFUPNjVG\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"77\" \/>Augsburg College student <strong>Marquell Moorer &#8217;17<\/strong> was featured in an\u00a0NPR story describing the difficulty students and their families face\u00a0in comparing college financial aid packages. Moorer was accepted into a dozen colleges and universities\u00a0following high school, and he described the confusion he experienced when he\u00a0attempted to assess his financial obligation to each institution.<\/p>\n<p>Moorer was involved in College Possible, a college access program that Augsburg supports by offering scholarships for participants. College Possible helped Moorer in making his decision to attend Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/05\/07\/401982616\/confusing-financial-aid-letters-leave-students-parents-adrift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a> on the NPR website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg College student Marquell Moorer &#8217;17 was featured in an\u00a0NPR story describing the difficulty students and their families face\u00a0in comparing college financial aid packages. Moorer was accepted into a dozen colleges and universities\u00a0following high school, and he described the confusion he experienced when he\u00a0attempted to assess his financial obligation to each institution. Moorer was involved &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3631,849,1059,3636,3630,2158],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-college-possible","tag-diversity","tag-financial-aid","tag-inclusion","tag-marquell-moorer","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}