How to Use a Net Price Calculator to Estimate College Costs
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…
What is a Financial Safety School?
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…
How to Pay Less for College
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 school students reported that the pandemic…
How to Find College Scholarships
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 national and local scholarship available, composing…
How to Appeal a Financial Aid Award
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 learning of one’s acceptance (congrats!), the…
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…
The Truth Behind Private Scholarships
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. Detroit’s Big 3 of GM, Ford,…
How to Win a National Merit Scholarship
In 1955, the headlines were dominated by earth-shaking events such as Rosa Parks’ act of civil disobedience that set off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, athletic triumphs like the long-suffering Brooklyn Dodgers finally defeating the New…
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