It’s no secret that private colleges are feeling the pinch this year, and with financial aid and student services serving as important recruitment and retaining tools for their attendees (and a source of income), many schools are having to make tough decisions.
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Wondering where all your college tuition payments go?
A new survey released by Yaffe & [...]

Ups and Downs
This has been a year of worry for many private colleges–a majority of them seemed to share the viewpoint that the economy would mean many fewer applicants and subsequently smaller enrollment numbers. Their fears, which seem reasonable, have finally been disproved by the results of a survey just released by the National Association of [...]

It seems that even the most elite private colleges fear rejection from accepted applicants in this financial climate. That is good news for the incoming class of ‘09, which also happens to be the largest incoming class yet at a whopping 3 million students!
Good News from Officials
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that, according [...]

For a while it seemed that only the affluent or the lower income could “afford” a high quality education at an elite college: the affluent because they have the funds to pay, the lower income because they could count on more financial aid. The middle-income families, however, seemed left to fend for themselves.
Happily, Harvard announced [...]

Families that live in certain areas of the country, especially on the two coasts, find themselves sitting with a huge amount of equity in their homes, even during the current real estate market downturn. Students who are applying to any of the 300 or so private schools that require the CSS Profile financial aid form [...]

For a long time now, lower-income students have been offered need-based federal and school aid to help them attend college. Meanwhile, many middle-class families have struggled to meet the cost of college without the same benefits of aid. The tide seems to be turning in the elite colleges.
Some of the most prestigious U.S. colleges say [...]

It may not have surprised you to read that college students don’t know much about the cultural origins of their cell phones, but wouldn’t you think that students of the most expensive colleges would be able to pass a basic U.S. History test?
Not so, according to a study recently released by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. [...]

Very few colleges have taken the initiative to offer students scholarships in place of loans. This summer, Amherst College in Massachusets joined the ranks of schools like Princeton and Davidson College by implementing a new financial aid program.
Amherst’s program is targeted to help students graduate debt-free. Under the new policy, students will receive scholarship money [...]

This past weekend my son took the train up to Los Angeles to spend the weekend with his grandparents. My parents love to spend time with him and frequently complain that they donâ€TMt get to see him often enough. I tell them that I don’t get to see him enough either due to his typical [...]