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...
Tag - Planning For College
A College Degree from Pave?
Anya Kamenetz, the author of Generation Debt, addresses in her book new models for funding both the cost of a college education and the cost of...
Are We Preparing Students for College?
We expect students who get into the best, highly selective colleges are well-prepared and will be great college students. This is not always the case...
Are We Judging Colleges Correctly?
The Obama Administration recently launched the College Scorecard which helps students and their parents evaluate a searchable list of colleges to...
How to Probe for the Right College Fit
It is stressful applying to college. The application process is hard enough, but before you even get started on that, you have to figure out where...
High School is All About Getting Ready for College!
You may be only half way through your freshman year, or you might be a sophomore. You might think it is a bit early to burden yourself with thoughts...
What Guides Students to a College?
Today the best students with the best scores and the best grades have such wide choice among colleges. The sky’s the limit. The little known secret...
Evaluating Your ACT Scores
Colleges use several criteria to decide who will be admitted to their campuses, but ACT scores (and SAT scores, too) are one of the more important...
Should You be Thinking about a Double Major?
The new trend at colleges is for students to double major. One reason is the practical degrees such as business, which have been popular since the...
How to Know if a College is a Good Fit
Students research colleges and go to interviews. They take tours and visit with admission people on or off campus. And, they ask all sorts of...