Acceptance letters
Why You Shouldn’t Apply to a Reach School
In my last post on deciphering financial aid letters, I focused on college grants. Grants are the best kind of aid that you can snag in a financial aid letter because these awards don’t have to be repaid.
College Grants: Decoding a Financial Aid Letter Part II
My son has been receiving financial aid awards from colleges [...]
College Grants: Decoding a Financial Aid Letter Part II
This is my second post on deciphering college financial aid packages. Yesterday, I explained what sort of federal financial aid assistance you might find in your financial aid award.
How To Decode a Financial Aid Letter
Today, I’m going to cover the types of college grants that parents typically find in a financial aid letter.
College Grants
Many families [...]
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Getting an Extra $30,000 Scholarship from Rutgers
I heard today from a dad named John, who got Rutgers to quadruple the academic scholarship that it is offering his daughter.
After hearing from John, Rutgers scotched the original $10,000 scholarship and replaced it with a $40,000 college scholarship instead.
How did he do it? It was simple.
On February 17, John sent an email to Rutger’s [...]
Acing a College Interview: 27 Interview Questions
How do you ace a college interview?
That’s what my son was wondering this weekend during his visit to Beloit College. About 130 high school seniors were on campus to compete for one of the school’s Presidential Scholarships, which are worth up to $68,000.
Have fun and relax. That’s what everyone told the hopeful teenagers, [...]
Why I Chose Yale – Not
If you haven’t seen the campy You Tube musical called “Why I Chose Yale, you might want to check it out. I imagine that watching it will only increase the anxiety of any parent or high school student who thinks Yale (or some other Ivy League school) is the only higher-ed trophy worth bagging.
If you [...]
Why Students at State Flagships Are Richer Than Most
Close to one out of every three students who attend a state flagship university is affluent.
Specifically, 30% of students at flagship universities have parents with incomes in the top 20% of all American households.
This is just one of the findings of a new study released this week by The Education Trust, which is a nonprofit [...]
Be Careful How You Answer These 2 College Application Questions
If you plan to apply to college as a “stealth candidate” listen up.
Stealth candidates are teenagers who never contact a college before sending in their application. Stealth college applications used to be rare. Most teenagers contact colleges through traditional means such as requesting materials, talking to admission counselors at college fairs and visiting schools.
Today, however, [...]
College Acceptance Letter Etiquette
High schools students have started receiving college acceptance letters.
A student writing on The New York Times’ college blog today suggests that teenagers shouldn’t brag when they start getting acceptance letters. Specifically, she believes that sharing college admission news on Facebook is in poor taste.
The freshman at Northwestern argues that bragging about college acceptances will crush [...]
Should You Share Dirty Secrets With College Admission Offices?
What happens if your teenagers has made a bad mistake during his or her high school years? I’m talking about a suspension from school. A drunk driving ticket. A cheating incident.
How do you handle these kinds of mistakes on your college application?
Lee Bierer, an independent college counselor in Charlotte, NC, and a syndicated columnist, tackled [...]
10 Colleges Where Sports Are Cash Hogs
Which universities spend more on sports than classroom instruction? In my latest college blog post for CBSMoneyWatch, I shared the list of the Division 1-A schools that spend the greatest percentage of its revenue on sports. On the list, you’ll find the top 10 college sports cash hogs, as well as the 10 schools that [...]
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