May 24, 2017 | Article, Cost of College, Financial Literacy, Paying for College
Many times — maybe too many — high school seniors are just so happy to be accepted to their dream school that they don’t give a second thought to the financial implications of their college choice. Then reality sinks in when they start digging into the details...
May 31, 2016 | Admissions, Article
What does the conversion chart say about the new SAT? This past week the CollegeBoard released several tables detailing student’s performance on the new SAT compared to the old SAT. The official conversion tables show that the new SAT has higher scores than expected...
Jan 19, 2016 | Cost of College, Preparing
We are frequent advocates of better consumer information for students and their families. As a result we were pleased to read today’s article by fellow parent and New York Times columnist Ron Lieber. His article Concealing the Calculus of Higher...
Sep 16, 2014 | Article, Completing
U.S. News and World Report has a list out of the schools that meet full financial need. The quality of schools available to students may surprise you. While only 62 of 1,137 schools ranked by U.S. News and World Report claim to meet full financial need of students,...
Jul 30, 2014 | Article, Research & Advocacy
The National Retail Foundation has a gained tracked what families have planned for Back to College Spending for 2014. The total projected amount? $48.4 billion. If you follow these numbers from year to year, that number is a significant increase from $45.8 billion...
Jul 28, 2014 | Article, Completing, Preparing, Research & Advocacy
image by flickr user FutUndBeidl (cc license) The Dispatch has reported that college tuitions at eleven of the thirteen public universities in Ohio will increase this fall. The increases are capped at the larger of 2% of tuition or $188. However, other uncapped...
Jul 10, 2014 | Article, Research & Advocacy
In today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, there was a substantive discussion about how costs of books and ‘other’ college expenses (laundry, entertainment, transportation) are reportedly falling. But who is providing the data behind this reporting?...
Jun 30, 2014 | Article, Research & Advocacy
The U.S. Department of Education updated its most expensive and least expensive colleges list. This now marks the fourh year in a row that such data has been released. While some have argued that the lists have put little pressure on schools to lower tuition costs or...
May 8, 2014 | Article, Preparing, Research & Advocacy
As we covered last summer, Congress passed into law student loan reforms that temporarily reduced student loan interest rates. However, as part of those reforms, the federal student loan interest rate, based on auction levels of Treasury 10-year notes, is allowed to...
Mar 20, 2014 | Article, Research & Advocacy
Our senior researcher recently got a request to look into the prevalence of schools with a total cost of attendance listed at $40,000 per year or above. The jump over the last 10 years of federal data is nothing short of shocking. Using the Department of...
