Don’t get me wrong-it’s great to set New Year’s resolutions to work out more, finally clean out the garage, and finish the home improvement projects you started in 2003-but those goals won’t help you pay less for college!
Add these goals to your list for 2008, and you could potentially change what you pay for college [...]

At the beginning of every year, our offices are showered with questions about the FAFSA (a.k.a. the Free Application for Federal Student Aid) from concerned parents and students:
“Should I file the FAFSA even if my family will not qualify for financial aid“
“Should grad students apply?”
“What about students who have won scholarships?”
“What if my parents or [...]

An in-person college interview can provide a big advantage to a student in the college admissions process. After all, it’s difficult for any student to communicate their true personality and essence on an electronic or paper application. If your student is able to interview with an admissions officer or alumnus, I would highly recommend you [...]

Let’s face it: your children’s spending habits could be one of the biggest challenges you have in paying for college. I found one of Jonathan Clements’ thoughts from his recent WSJ article, 12 Ways to Make Your Kids Financially Savvy inspiring:
“[Teaching kids about finances] isn’t simply about coughing up dollars and cents… what it’s really [...]

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 [...]

Paying less for your son or daughter’s college education isn’t just about winning scholarships and getting tuition discounts-it’s also about planning your finances so your savings in one area can be redirected to provide funding for college. The following are a list of websites that will save you money in many different areas of your [...]

With a stretch of two or three weeks of lazy days, your student can still do something to earn a little extra cash for college this winter break (though I’m sure they’d all prefer to hibernate the days away!). Here are a few ideas to help get you started:

1. Clean out the Closet.
Kill two birds [...]

With students right on top of the ever-evolving technology crazes, more and more colleges are focused on making access to their courses easier. Many have posted lectures on iTunes using “iTunes U,” letting students and others access the lectures over the internet. The University of California at Berkeley has taken it a step [...]

Two public universities in Iowa-U of Iowa and Iowa State-have signed deals with their alumni associations to help them make more money off their students. The Des Moines Register reported that the two schools will be both endorsing and promoting Bank of America credit cards on their campuses, in exchange for a profit.
Hmm. A college [...]