What You Can Do To Prevent The Market From Making A Mess of Your College Plan! Well I’m not sure where to start today because there is A LOT that I had wanted to talk about this week [...]
It’s an odd juxtaposition that just as the summer season begins to cool down (in most of the country anyway), college ‘application season’ and its accompanying application [...]
The ‘New Look’ Common App (below) and FSUs application went Live yesterday (Aug 1)! 69 new schools (including Tulane, St. John’s and NSU) have joined the 500 or so other [...]
Earlier this week George Washington University became the latest highly selective school to announce that it will no longer require standardized test scores (SAT or ACT) for admission. [...]
Last week Jill and I visited Smith College in Northampton, MA, one of the few remaining all-women colleges in the US (according to Wikipedia, there are 48 such schools). Smith has some personal [...]
I just recorded a quick (2-1/2 minute) video about a major change to the financial aid formula. You can get instant access to it here. Unfortunately, the change – which was recently made [...]
Since the Grateful Dead were kind enough to host their 3-day ‘Fare Thee Well’ Retirement party in Chicago on the same weekend as our (as in mine and Pete’s) 21st Wedding [...]
Here are a few simple, but critical summer to-do’s for all families with college-bound students But first there’s some good news to share: as Peter predicted, after many rounds of [...]
I reported yesterday about how competitive it is to get into college this year, with record low admit rates across the board. Turns out that NBC6 was thinking the same thing. Check out Ari [...]
For most colleges, May 1st is the response deadline (the last day for prospective students to commit themselves and their dollars to a particular school). It was an eventful and exhausting day [...]
