How to Pay Less for College
If you’ve ever experienced a sudden, unexplained rise in your cable bill, you’ve probably experienced something like this: After calling the cable company and enduring twenty straight minutes of deafeningly loud advertisements for Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, you finally get an operator…
How to Earn College Credit in High School
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 tuition. Understanding the options that may be available to you at your high school is step…
Estimating College Costs: The Power of a Net Price Calculator
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 every aspect of daily life had radically changed. Yet, amazingly, one thing would have been startlingly…
How Do I Apply for Financial Aid
If you are the parent of a college-bound teen, you’ve likely spent at least a few sleepless nights fretting about the above question. If it is any comfort, you are far from alone. Every single year, college students in the U.S. miss 2.7 billion dollars’…
5 Secrets to Winning Merit Aid
“There is money out there for college.” Parents, panicking over the astronomical cost of tuition, hear this reassuring but somewhat vague advice all the time from friends, neighbors, or the media. They have faith that if they simply follow the rainbow of FAFSA forms, local…
Don’t Forget to Pick a Financial Safety School (FSS)
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 careful thought into their post-secondary backup plan is like expecting Romeo & Juliet to respond to…
The Truth Behind Private Scholarships
In the early 1970s the U.S. auto industry received warnings from economic experts—if they continued to focus on the wrong thing, Japanese car companies would soon put them out of business. Detroit’s Big 3 of GM, Ford, and Chrysler were told that if they remained…
Out-of-State Deals
At risk of sounding like famed 60 Minutes resident curmudgeon, Andy Rooney, the world has changed drastically in so many ways since 1986—landlines have been replaced by cell phones, actual socializing has been replaced by social media, and America’s highest office is now held by…
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Downloadable Resources for your College Transition
