Laptops, play lists and printers top the list of essentials to bring to
college campuses, according to students who entered the Sallie Mae
Pack2School Twitter Sweepstakes.
College students and their families will spend an average $837 on items
such as clothing, electronics and dorm furnishings to get ready for the
school year, according to a study by the National Retail Federation. To
help with these expenses, Sallie Mae’s Pack2School Twitter Sweepstakes
offered a chance to win one of three $500 MasterCard gift cards to help
offset these costs.
Jasmine Jones, a middle school mathematics education major at the
University of Missouri - Kansas City, from St. Louis, Mo., was one of
the contest winners. Jones tweeted, “The one thing I can't live without
is a printer w/ printer paper! It's a must!”
Taylor Jane Neuenschwander, University of Colorado Denver, a biology
major from Rapid City S.D., won for tweeting that she can’t live without
her travel coffee cup, while Katherine Feeney, an Otterbein University
nursing major from Sharon, Pa., said bringing Christmas lights to the
dorm creates a “homey feeling” at school.
From August 1-8, students entered by following @SallieMae on Twitter and
tweeting the one item they cannot live without at college. Winners were
selected from a random drawing.
Join the conversation on how to save, plan and pay for college at Facebook.com/SallieMae
or on Twitter by following @SallieMae.
Sallie Mae (NASDAQ: SLM) is the nation’s No. 1 financial services
company specializing in education. Celebrating 40 years of making a
difference, Sallie Mae continues to turn education dreams into reality
for American families, today serving 25 million customers. With products
and services that include 529 college savings plans, Upromise rewards,
scholarship search and planning tools, education loans, insurance, and
online banking, Sallie Mae offers solutions that help families save,
plan, and pay for college. Sallie Mae also provides financial services
to hundreds of college campuses as well as to federal and state
governments. Learn more at SallieMae.com.
Commonly known as Sallie Mae, SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are
not sponsored by or agencies of the United States of America.
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