The financial downturn has high school seniors and their parents running scared. How can we reduce costs? How can we get the best deal?
The conventional wisdom says that an in-state college is the cheapest option. As with most conventional wisdom, this assumption is wrong.
Let’s compare costs for a Colorado student considering majoring in business at [...]
Read full post...Clients have asked me repeatedly to explain the relationship between the financial aid and admissions offices, and to help them to understand how financial need is factored into admissions decisions. Usually these questions revolve around whether a college is “need blind” or “need aware.” So in this post, I’ll try to shed some light on [...]
Read full post...Sallie Mae and Gallup released a new annual survey on how families in the US pay for college. It yields a great deal of information. One of the problems in analyzing this data, however, is the huge variety of colleges student attend, the financial circumstances of those families, and the enormous varance in the price [...]
Read full post...Harvard University announced today that it is restructuring its financial aid packages to provide more assistance to middle class families. With the price of tuition at elite private colleges continuing to skyrocket, more and more middle income families are feeling the pain of hefty price tags. A college education today can cost more [...]
Read full post...Did you see that Hillary Clinton unveiled more of her education policy platform? It was reported in an article in InsideHigherEd.com. Part of her plan is to make college more accessible to students of limited means by using some economic tools and expanding the student loan program. Here’s an excerpt from the article.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, [...]