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Getting Bad News From Johns Hopkins

on January 9, 2012 in College Costs, Financial aid, Money, Parents, Scholarships

I have been writing college blog posts recently about teenagers who have arguably been applying to the wrong colleges. (Scroll to the bottom to see my three previous posts.) All my posts have involved families who required financial aid, but today I’m sharing the plight of a father who is too wealthy to receive need-based [...]

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Should You Attend Your Dream College?

on December 5, 2010 in Admission practices, Admissions, College Costs, Financial aid, Money, Student Loans, Universities

This is the time of year when high school seniors and their parents begin reciting this age-old advice:  Follow your dreams. Families tend to use this advice to justify their children attending expensive dream colleges even if these schools will require taking on crushing student debt. I am a huge advocate of families researching schools [...]

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Case Study: Applying Early Decision

on September 9, 2010 in Admission practices, Admissions, Financial aid, Money, Scholarships

Yesterday I shared an easy way to to obtain early decision statistics from individual colleges and universities. Here is the post: Finding the Success Rate of Applying Early Decision As I promised at the time, I want to delve into the specifics of a high school senior, I’m going to call her Sarah, who wants [...]

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Finding the Success Rate of Applying Early Decision

on September 8, 2010 in Admission practices, Admissions, Evaluating Schools, Research

Should you apply early decision? I got an email last night from a psychologist who asked if his daughter should apply early decision to The College of New Jersey, which is a public liberal arts college. Last month, I wrote about the early decision dilemma that a mom from Minnesota was facing regarding her daughter’s [...]

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How Generous Is This College?

on September 5, 2010 in Admissions, Evaluating Schools, Financial aid, Money, Research, Scholarships, Student Loans

How can you tell if a college or university will cut the price for your child? You can get an idea by looking at a school’s Common Data Set. If you don’t know what a Common Data Set is, you’ll want to read the posts that I wrote last week on this valuable document: Researching [...]

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Common Data Set 101

on September 2, 2010 in Evaluating Schools, Research

The Common Data Set can be a great tool for researching colleges and universities. You can learn what a Common Data Set is by reading the post that I wrote yesterday: Researching Colleges With the Common Data Set Today I’m going to explore how you can use the Common Data Set to gain insights into [...]

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