
College Planning & Financial Aid in Tough Times
The Denver NBC affiliate picked up my post offering Ten College Planning Tips for Tough Economic Times. A segment on college planning and financial aid aired this morning on 9

The Denver NBC affiliate picked up my post offering Ten College Planning Tips for Tough Economic Times. A segment on college planning and financial aid aired this morning on 9

AP courses are among the most rigorous offered in American public high schools. But how good are they? Lots of kids take them–and fail the exams. So how good are…

When it comes to the Advanced Placement or AP program offered by the College Board, parents and students have all sorts of questions. Are Advanced Placement courses good for college

How do you calculate your real GPA and how will your GPA be used in the college admissions process? Great College Advice explains the ins and outs of the GPA.

Brad Ward and his colleagues in the admissions office at Butler University put together a short, little video about what happens to your college application when it arrives in their

A few days ago I wrote a post providing some of my predictions about how the credit crunch will affect college admissions. The New York Times ran a story yesterday

The annual report from the College Board indicates that the cost of tuition went up last year. On average, costs increased from 5-6%, depending on the type of institution. If

Lisa Belkin, a writer and blogger for the New York Times, has a couple of posts on her blog yesterday about the general angst and real effects on families’ decisions

When the going gets rough, the rough go to grad school. Or something like that. The International Herald Tribune ran an article yesterday about the increase in the numbers of