As this new year gets underway, high school seniors are beginning to receive word back from the colleges to which they applied. The schools have looked at a student’s grades, extracurricular activities as well as ACT and SAT scores, but the student and his parents have additional variables to consider when investigating prospective schools. What is [...]
Help is finally on the way for families struggling to get a handle on the tuition rates and financial aid opportunities available at the various colleges to which their son or daughter is interested in applying. Starting in the fall of 2011, the federal government is requiring all U.S. colleges to include a tool called [...]
With tuition rising ever faster—the average annual cost at a private college is now close to $40,000 and is expected to rise to over $80,000 by 2025—getting financial aid is crucial for many families. Don’t automatically assume you won’t qualify. Your income or your grades may or may not make you ineligible and so do your [...]
Over the summer, there are a lot of high school juniors and seniors hit the road with their parents to visit colleges. Here are a few tips to help make the most of those visits. Make sure you do some research first. Have your teen do a ‘virtual’ tour of the colleges she is interested [...]