Dec 2, 2020 | Article, Preparing, Research & Advocacy
One peek in your son’s room confirms that he’s in the midst of the college application process. His floor is littered with school viewbooks, post-it notes obscure his computer screen, and his test score summary has gone AWOL. One thing is certain: if...
Nov 30, 2020 | Article, Preparing, Research & Advocacy
College students’ finances are of “extreme” or “great concern” to nearly half of the 1,727 respondents to the Second Annual National Survey on the Current College Parent Experience, which was conducted online from February 23 through...
Nov 27, 2020 | Article, Completing
We’ve all seen the bumper stickers. “My child is honor student at fill-in-the-blank middle school.” Some of you may have even had the chance to slap one of those bumper stickers on your own car fender. When it comes to honors in high school and...
Nov 25, 2020 | Article, Completing
Over the course of the past decade, the concept of parent involvement in American secondary and higher education has evolved considerably, from occasional, mostly ceremonial activities for a small percentage of parents to carefully conceived and widely available...
Nov 25, 2020 | Article, Research & Advocacy
About Eating Disorders According to a 2004 online study conducted by Screening for Mental Health, Inc. 59.34% of students screened tested positive for symptoms of an eating disorder. Of those who scored positive, 96% were not in treatment for an eating disorder at the...
Nov 23, 2020 | Article, Completing
If your child is still in secondary school, you’ve probably remarked to each other how difficult it is, with today’s busy lifestyles, for him or her to actually find time to study. But study time is critical, and it gets even more important when the young...
Nov 20, 2020 | Article, Preparing
Until recently, it would have been heresy, and just plain bad practical advice, to tell a high school junior or senior with college aspirations not to take the SAT, especially if he or she lived on either coast of the United States. This ritual college admissions...
Nov 18, 2020 | Article, Completing, Preparing
Teens who identify at least one influential, “natural” mentor in their life – a person not assigned by a formal mentoring program – report that they have a higher sense of self and are more likely to take risks that affect their lives...
Nov 16, 2020 | Article, Preparing
Other Savings Options While 529 plans may be the hottest and most flexible way to save for college, there are other, non-traditional methods which make sense in certain cases. Recent laws make saving for college via Roth IRAs a lot more favorable than in the past. All...
Nov 13, 2020 | Article, Preparing, Transitioning
The times they are a changin may be a song from the baby-boom era, but it is also a phrase that aptly describes how colleges are beginning to treat parents. Until the beginning of the 1990s, it was rare for any college or university to think of parents as anything...
