What Nonresidents Need to Know About Attending State Universities
Credit: Lynne O’Shaughnessy, The College Solution. (Original Article) If you have to pay nonresident tuition, are public universities worth the price? I think this is a good time to examine this issue since the Princeton Review just released its 2014 best value list of public colleges and universities. The Princeton Review included many state schools…
The Public Colleges That Pay Off The Most
Credit: Huffington Post (View original article) Newsflash: college is expensive, even at public universities. But there are some state schools that pay off more than others. A new ranking released Wednesday from PayScale shows which colleges and universities — public, private, religious and secular — that have the best return on investment. The Huffington Post…
How to Tell Your Kid You Can’t Afford Her Dream College
Credit: Kim Clark, Time Magazine Money. Original article: http://time.com/money/2795205/how-to-tell-your-kid-you-cant-afford-her-dream-college/. You meant it when you said, “Study hard in high school, and we’ll send you to the best college you get into.” But now you’re looking at the cost of Dream U — and panicking. Sticker prices at the top private colleges exceed $60,000. Even with…
College Counseling Could Be Better: Just Ask Your School Counselor
Credit: Patrick J O’Conner, The Chronicle of Higher Education The recent wave of college admissions decisions shows more high school seniors applying to more colleges than ever before. This puts top-tier colleges in the position of rejecting more applicants than ever before, inevitably leaving disappointed students and parents to ask “What else could I have…
How To Clean Up Your Social Media for College Applications
Credit: Megan Shuffleton of hercampus.com | Original article: http://www.hercampus.com/high-school/applying-college/how-clean-your-social-media-college-applications?page=3 As members of the infamous Millennial Generation, a lot of us are users of social media websites. And it’s not just Facebook anymore – Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Instagram and Foursquare are all big names in the social networking world now. While this means it’s easier for us to…