Attention high school students and their parents! College admissions trends have been changing significantly these past few years. Some may say the changes are for the better. However, the reality is college just got a...

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I’ve been helping students prepare for college for about 20 years. From what I’ve seen many families put way too much importance on getting straight A’s and/or taking AP classes (ironically good grades alone aren’t...

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As parents, I think it’s natural to wonder if our child is doing ok being away from home. It’s also natural to miss them and hope they miss us too. But ultimately we want them to be happy and successfully adjust to...

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Parents – can you hear the stress hidden behind the empty words “everything’s ok” whispered by your child? Or can you make out the indiscernible words barely breaking through the sobbing? Or perhaps it’s just silence......

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To all incoming college freshman, You’re no longer in high school. So that means if you were popular, smart, quiet, nerdy, the loner, or whatever in high school, that doesn’t mean that’s who you’ll be in college. You...

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Here is a short list of some of the most common mistakes I see parents make every year when it comes to their child’s college dreams. 1. RELYING SOLELY ON SAT/ACT TEST SCORES College admissions have changed -...

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Having the right kind of insurance in place is a vital part of your family’s financial protection. While insurance is usually not on the student-going-to-college checklist, it should be. Often times parents forget to...

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Sending your child to college is always a stressful time. Parents want what is best for their kids, but college is very expensive nowadays. Plus it’s getting harder to be admitted; even the State colleges are rejecting...

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Should parents pay for their kid’s college? After a mortgage, the cost to attend college will be the next most expensive thing a family tries to pay off. The average annual cost for an in-state public school is a little...

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College admissions continues to become more competitive and complex each year. The Covid-pandemic has created even more chaos as students who took a gap year are now enrolling into colleges, often displacing the current...

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Why visit? - I cannot stress enough how important it is to take a college campus tour of a school your child is seriously interested in. While a tour seems like it would be a great experience, sometimes the opposite is...

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I’ve heard some parents say getting into college will be easier now that some schools are waiving the SAT and ACT scores. However, I found the opposite to be true. The admissions process is actually becoming murkier...

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In case you didn’t know it – college is expensive. Excruciatingly expensive. The average cost for an in-state public college is a little over $25,000 a year. Since most students no longer graduate in four years, but...

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The costs associated with college continue to soar. Historically the price of college has outpaced inflation by over four times. Hence the amount of college debt taken on by a family has skyrocketed to unstable levels....

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I remember when I first started working in a Financial Aid Office at a major university, parents would tell me they hired someone to help their child find, and apply to, scholarships. Thankfully things have changed...

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Throughout the month of February, the higher education community celebrates Financial Aid Awareness Month in an effort to provide crucial information to students and families about access to federal, state, and...

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Parents – here is my contrarian viewpoint to these sensational headlines: CNBC: Lawsuit claims 16 top colleges overcharged over 170,000 students by ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’New York Times: Lawsuit Says 16 Elite...

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