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How Parents Can Borrow for College

on April 24, 2012 in Money, Parents, Student Loans

Are you a parent who needs to borrow for college? Most of the attention is focused on college loans that students take out, but there are parent loans as well. In case you missed it, I wrote about federal student loans in my last college blog post: What You Need to Know About Borrowing for [...]

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What You Need to Know About Borrowing for College

on April 23, 2012 in Money, Student Loans

As recently as the early 1990s, most students did not take out college loans. Today about two out of every three students borrow to pay for college. One reason for the dramatic change is this fact: during the last-quarter century, tuition has risen four times faster than the consumer price index. The typical student borrower [...]

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When Two Children Head to College

on April 20, 2012 in Admissions, Applying, College Costs, Financial aid, Money, Student Loans

Yesterday’s post, which explored the school options of a brilliant teenager from Wisconsin, generated many insightful comments from parents. Here is the post: Should a Kid Borrow $80,000 for a Brand-Name University? If you missed the post or the comments, I’d urge you to check both out. To summarize, the teenager managed to get admitted [...]

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Should a Kid Borrow $80,000 for a Brand Name University?

on April 19, 2012 in Admissions, Applying, Financial aid, Money, Parents, Student Loans

I am sharing an email that I received Tuesday from a Wisconsin mom, who is stressed about the admission decision that her teenage son must make by May 1. What follows is a cautionary tale for any families which have not been through the college admission process yet. Read on to discover how to avoid [...]

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A Recruiter’s Take on Hiring Students from No-Name Schools

on April 17, 2012 in Academic quality, Academics, Admissions, Applying, California universities, Careers, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Universities

I’ve been receiving some fascinating comments lately that were triggered by recent posts that shared the agony of students who aimed for the Ivies and other elite schools and got spurned or who couldn’t afford the tab. If you missed the posts, here they are: Should You Blow the Budget on Cornell? The Odds of [...]

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The Odds of Getting Off a Wait List

on April 16, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying

This weekend I heard from old friends who wanted to share with me stories of brilliant students who got shut out of elite universities. At a party on Friday night, a former colleague of my husband’s mentioned that he was stunned that his son’s friend didn’t get into Stanford University. The boy is a stellar [...]

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