Financial Aid

FAQ: Does home equity affect financial aid?

It depends on which colleges you apply to. If you apply to colleges that use the FAFSA only for calculating…

8 years ago

What The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success Really Means

Last September a group of 80 colleges announced a new college application designed to improve access, affordability, and success. They…

8 years ago

How to Pay Less for College: Avoid Goldilocks Colleges

I started off this series of How to Pay Less for College by discussing how the economics of supply and…

8 years ago

How to Pay Less for College: Geography Matters

As someone who recently bought a house in an economically booming market, I can tell you the same house costs…

8 years ago

What’s Wrong with These 135 Colleges…and Does it Matter?

You may have missed the excitement last May when Ronald Nelson announced he was going to attend the University of…

8 years ago

10 Things You Should Know About the 2016 US News College Rankings

Despite the newly revised federal College Scorecard released this weekend along with new data elements for evaluating schools, US News…

8 years ago

50-50 Highlights: Schools in The Washington Monthly College Rankings

With the increasing number of college rankings available, it's easy to forget that the US News Best College Rankings reigned…

8 years ago

50-50 Highlights: 28 Colleges with the Best ROI That You Can Actually Get Into

Money's Best Colleges is one of the increasing alternatives to US News Best College Rankings. According to Washington Post, "Money…

8 years ago

Choosing a College After the Military

The following is a guest post by Scott Huntington. In order to properly use the GI Bill – or any…

8 years ago

Does Getting An Ivy League Education Mean That You Belittle Those Who Choose Not To?

Curses on you Google Alerts! I managed to go over two years without paying any attention to the Ivy Coach…

8 years ago