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College admissions tips and insider secrets about planning for college, applying for college, financial aid, admissions essays, college interviews, and much more.
College Fair Follow Up
So you’ve walked the room with a map of the colleges you are interested in in your hand. You’ve asked the typical questions and added some of your...
College Admission and the Personal Essay
College admissions people will tell you the college application essay is essential! First, they say, admitting the right fit to their college is not...
What about Parent Debt after College?
You are 51. Your son or daughter has just graduated from college. That’s good news, but not if you are stuck with college debt, too. As an example...
How to Figure the Cost of College
Financial aid packages can be daunting–very hard to figure out–, and they have to be figured year by year. So how do parents and students...
What is Happening to Student Loans?
We all know that the student loan debt for a college education is soaring. It’s at 1 trillion dollars now and is greater than the credit card debt...
New Requirement for FAFSA Applicants
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has, until now, required financial information from only one parent on its application. For...
Earn Competencies, not Credits, at College?
Traditionally, students go to college to earn credits toward their degrees. Some feel this is equivalent to seat-time learning. These people want...
Should There be a $10,000 College Degree?
In his 2011 State of the State address Gov. Rick Perry challenged his state colleges and universities to provide a college degree for no more than...
Why Don’t Low-income Students Go to Selective Colleges?
I bet you think the answer is because they can’t afford it! Wrong! In May (2013) Matthew Yglesias wrote that the case is just the opposite. He cites...