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A Financial Aid Letter That Gets It Right

on March 27, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions, Financial aid, Money, Scholarships

Many colleges do a horrible job of presenting their financial aid awards in an easy-to-understand way.  As I’ve been explaining in my last two posts, I believe this is largely intentional: What’s Wrong With This Financial Aid Letter Evaluating a Financial Aid Award Recognizing this shameful behavior, the federal government has created a financial aid [...]

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The Realities of a College Wait List

on March 20, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions

This is the season when colleges and universities are offering spurned applicants spots on their wait lists. I wanted to share this post that I wrote last year about wait lists.  I have updated the wait list statistics for the University of Notre. Lynn O’Shaughnessy This weekend I heard from old friends who wanted to [...]

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Where’s the Financial Aid Cash?

on March 12, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions, Financial aid, Money

This is the time of year when students are receiving their financial aid awards. I’m sharing a letter today from a mom who is unhappy about financial aid letters that her son has been receiving. Lynn O’Shaughnessy Hi Lynn, I’m a parent relatively new to the financial aid process and I have a question.  Once [...]

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Colleges and Affirmative Action

on February 11, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions

I wanted to share a letter that I received recently from George Shen, a business consultant in the Greater Boston area and the father of three boys. Shen, a first-generation American who is concerned about how Asian Americans are treated in the admission process by elite schools, has formed a Facebook page entitled Asian Americans [...]

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The Newest Change for the Common Application

on February 8, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying

Earlier this week the Common Application organization released its new college essay prompts. For months plenty of people (myself included) worried that the advisory board of 15 counselors in charge of revising the prompts were going to recommend killing off Option 6, which encourages applicants to write creatively. Sure enough, Option 6 that allows applicants [...]

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The Nation’s Tuition Hogs

on February 1, 2013 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying

Colleges are beginning to realize that high tuition/high discount (scholarship) model is failing. Escalating tuition is leaving more students unable to cover college costs even as colleges continue to offer scholarships to offset costs. In my last post, I mentioned the latest drive by private colleges to rein in merit money, but, as one of [...]

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