Room, board, and personal expenses make up about half the cost of college. It certainly matters what the expense is because parents and students need...
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The Basics of Repaying Your Student Debt
After you finish your education, you may not be finished. You will now need to repay any student aid you received over your years in college...
How to Draw Out Your Financial Aid
Time to think about going to campus, some for the first time and some as veterans. Whether a newbie or a vet, many of you will have financial aid...
Heads Up! Changes in Applying for Financial Aid
How will you decide what you can afford for your college education? The best way to figure that out is for EVERYONE to apply for financial aid – NO...
Travel Scholarships to Visit Colleges
All college applicants should visit a college campus before applying and certainly before accepting an admissions offer. However, visiting all the...
Paying for a College Education? Take Your Tax Breaks!
A college education costs, on average, $24,000 a year and sometimes much more! Still, only about a third of the people paying for a college education...
A Financial Path to College
You are in high school. Surely you have no worries. Certainly you don’t have to think about saving and paying for your college education. Think again...
College Tuition Breaks
The new normal is flat revenue for colleges. Colleges can increase enrollment more and more for only so long. Flat enrollment is now a boon to...
The Colleges that Do the Most for Low-income Students
There are 179 colleges that offer the best help to low-income college students. They range from a College Access Index of 1.91 to .39. Low-income...
Have Your Calculated the True Cost of College?
Are you budgeting for college? Looking at the price stickers for tuition and room and board? It’s scary, right? But, there are other college expenses...