Posts by Michael Trivette:

Raytheon Tuition Assistance: Online Degrees for Raytheon Employees

Posted on: 07 May 2026

Raytheon’s Employee Scholar Program (ESP) is one of the most generous education benefits offered by any U.S. employer. The program funds up to $25,000 per year in tuition, books, and academic fees, has no lifetime cap, supports degrees up through the doctorate, allows employees to attend any of 4,000+ approved schools worldwide, and pays the […]

Online Degrees for Recently Laid-Off Workers: Maximizing Aid While Job Searching

Posted on: 07 May 2026

If you have been laid off recently, the financial calculus around going back to school looks dramatically different than it does for working adults. Your income has dropped, sometimes to zero. Your timeline is bounded by unemployment insurance, severance, and savings. And the federal financial aid system, which is built around your tax return from […]

Adidas Tuition Assistance: How the adidasED x ASU Scholarship Works for Online Degrees

Posted on: 07 May 2026

Adidas employees in the United States have access to one of the more interesting employer education benefits in the country, structured around a single anchor university and delivered with a feature that very few comparable programs offer: a direct tuition discount that stacks on top of the employer payment. The adidasED x ASU Scholarship Program […]

Best Schools for Guild Education-Sponsored Tuition Programs (Target, Disney, Chipotle, Lowe’s, and More)

Posted on: 06 May 2026

If your employer offers tuition assistance through Guild, you have access to one of the most generous education benefit ecosystems in the country: more than 1,600 programs across a network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that determines whether your benefit pays off […]

GPA Improvement Calculator: How Much Can You Raise Your GPA?

Posted on: 10 Apr 2026

The question sounds simple enough: if I get straight A’s from here on out, what will my GPA be? But the math behind it catches a lot of students off guard. Your GPA is a weighted average of every course you’ve ever taken — and the more credits already on the books, the harder it […]

PSAT to SAT Score Conversion Calculator (2026): Predict Your SAT Score

Posted on: 09 Apr 2026

You just got your PSAT scores back. Maybe you did better than expected. Maybe you were hoping for more. Either way, the question in your head right now is the same: what does this actually mean for my SAT? Your PSAT score is genuinely useful data — not just a practice run to forget about. […]

Best Online Colleges for Texas Residents: In-State Tuition, the Hazlewood Act, and State Financial Aid Explained

Posted on: 09 Apr 2026

Texas residents pursuing an online degree have a combination of financial advantages that most states cannot match. In-state tuition at Texas public universities is among the lower end of the national average for four-year public institutions, and the state layers several additional funding sources on top of that baseline: the TEXAS Grant for need-based undergraduate […]

My Credits Are 10 Years Old. Do They Still Transfer?

Posted on: 05 Apr 2026

You took two years of college classes, then life intervened. Maybe you had a child, took a job that couldn’t wait, dealt with a family illness, or simply ran out of money at the wrong moment. Now, a decade later, you want to finish what you started — and the first question is: did those […]