What a difference a year makes! Last June (an election year), the president and Congress agreed to postpone any hike in student loan interest rates, reaching a compromise for one year. This time [...]

I think you might want to settle in for this one.  I’m fresh off two days of meetings with Admissions and Financial Aid Officials at the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA) [...]

Saturday (June 1) was the last time this school year that a student could sit for the SAT; and Saturday (June 8) offered the last bite of the ACT apple.  With these two tests now in the rearview, [...]

OK, you’re probably as anxious to skip ahead to the ‘good stuff’ (the acceptances) as I am to share them with you.  Not gonna lie – it was a record-breaking year for our [...]

Dear Reader, Right now, countless 12th graders and their families are huddled together pouring through college acceptances, comparing final financial aid offers, and weighing prestige, price, and [...]

I wanted to write about Florida’s college tuition rates and the Bright Futures Scholarship program, which are both in the news again. At issue: whether students spend more on tuition or [...]

I’m beginning to feel like I say this every year, but this has been one strange admissions season. If you’re the parent of a 12th grader, you probably know what I’m talking [...]

I’m spending a few days in Michigan, meeting and sharing best practices with a college planning company that is on the cutting edge in terms of providing both admissions and financial [...]

March is far and away my favorite month on the college calendar.  It’s not because kids receive acceptance letters and the accompanying financial aid awards (though that is very cool!).  [...]

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ― Albert Einstein “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw “It is not the strongest of the [...]