It seems students will go to great lengths for a free lunch (the article about how to get free food in college over on our sister blog, Surviving College Life, has been particularly popular). What too many chrome://foxytunes-public/content/signatures/signature-button.pngstudents don’t understand is that when it comes to credit card marketing, there is no such thing [...]

The higher education law passed by Congress in 2008 had several requirements aimed at helping with college affordability. One of those requirements was the creation of individual online calculators to be provided by schools to help figure the “net cost” (or what we call the “out-of-pocket cost”) of attendance.
Early Birds…
Though the law doesn’t require colleges [...]

You may have noticed that for-profit colleges–those career or trade schools who you see advertised on television–do not get a lot of facetime here at the Pay for College Blog. I usually focus on traditional non-profit private and public colleges and universities, instead.
However, I recently came across a new debt report from FinAid.org’s Mark Kantrowitz, [...]

In the early days of this blog, I wrote about the increasingly popular trend of boomerang children: those children who move out, go to school, graduate, and boomerang right back to their room at mom and dad’s to live rent-free.
Two years later, it seems the trend of students leaning on their parents post-graduation hasn’t slowed. [...]

Your student may be looking forward to three months of endless home cooked meals and trips to the lake or beach, but not all their time should be spent playing this summer!
In an economy like this, a precious commodity like time should really be used. Here are a few ways your student can spend time [...]