Costs & Financial Aid

October 2, 2023

Tragically, countless students and their families get lost in the dizzying complexities of financial aid each year, never to be seen again. Legend has it, these lost souls are...

September 27, 2023

While applying to college, many students are faced with an additional, daunting task: how to write a scholarship essay. Financial need, already a sensitive subject, can become a stressful...

September 14, 2023

Before we reveal the National Merit Scholarship PSAT score cutoff by state in 2023-2024 and National Merit Scholarship requirements, a short history lesson…In 1955, the headlines were dominated by...

August 9, 2023

Going to college introduces a new level of independence into many students’ lives. It means living with people your own age and outside the purview of your parents or...

July 10, 2023

You have finally arrived in your senior year. Not only are your test scores impressive, but also you have the extracurriculars and academic record to match. As you look...

June 13, 2023

Colleges in the United States offer international students the opportunity to study at well-respected institutions among diverse student bodies. While higher education in the US is a worthy investment...

March 21, 2023

In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania charged $600 per year to attend—roughly $6,000 in 2023 money. Today, Penn’s annual cost of attendance is over $83,000. By 1960, most private...

December 23, 2022

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland is among the Ivy-equivalent colleges that now perennially sports a single-digit acceptance rate. This means that very few of the deserving crop of...

September 12, 2022

If you are the parent of a college-bound teen, you’ve likely spent at least a few sleepless nights fretting about the subject of paying for college. If it is...

July 24, 2022

Too many talented students pass up opportunities to earn college credits during their high school years for just a tiny fraction of what they will pay later in freshman...

July 11, 2022

Online master’s programs have proliferated in the past decade to the point that, no matter your field of interest, page one of your Google search results will contain a...

July 5, 2022

To most of us, the concept of in-state tuition is a straightforward proposition. Government subsidized public institutions offer a lower tuition price to residents of their state. Families can...

November 17, 2021

Check out our video below to learn more! To those expecting a straightforward bash-list of institutions that we do not think highly of—we apologize for disappointing you. The internet...

September 16, 2021

America in 1959 would have been unrecognizable to a time-traveler from 1886—city skylines illuminating the night sky, cars zipping along highways, jumbo jets roaring above at 30,000 feet—just about...

August 23, 2021

The act of drawing up college contingency plans is entirely antithetical to the passion-filled optimism pulsating through the average teenage brain. Counting on your son or daughter to put...

August 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many parents to rethink how much they are willing to pay for their teen’s college education. In 2020, almost a quarter of college-bound high...

July 26, 2021

For both parents and teens alike, the quest for scholarship money can feel quite similar to pouring water into a sandcastle’s moat. You frantically fill out applications to every...

March 29, 2021

For students lacking inexhaustible higher education funds, finding out whether or not you are accepted into your dream college is only one battle in a broader, fast-unfolding conflict. Upon...

February 19, 2021

In the early 1970s, the U.S. auto industry received warnings from economic experts—if they continued on their current path, Japanese car companies would soon put them out of business. ...

January 20, 2021

It is unsurprising that the top public universities in the United States annually draw massive numbers of residents who seek a quality education close to home at a low...