In yet another ‘never a dull moment’ moment in higher ed, President Obama announced yesterday some pretty broad-sweeping changes to the Federal financial aid system. Though these [...]
It’s Jill today, with a sideline report from the ongoing battle for market share between previous-upstart turned powerhouse and the current front-runner ACT and its soon-to-be-re-tooled [...]
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 [...]
