October is a VERY busy month in the college planning world. Not only is it crunch time for 12th graders trying to get their applications in early, with the CSS Profile opening on October 1 (and [...]

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 [...]