Since the job market first took the plunge, new college graduates–and even new college freshmen–have worried about the effect it will have on their future careers. Last year, with the floundering economy and the job market growing fiercely competitive, many students became more concerned about finding a job than about what a job would pay.
As with [...]

The elite private universities have often been forerunners when it comes to offering generous financial aid packages. In fact, back in 2007 over a dozen schools–including Dartmouth, Amherst, and Harvard–committed to fully-funded (loan free) tuition packages for students under certain income levels.
Many of these schools have reportedly doubled (or even tripled) their financial aid offerings over the [...]

Your student may already seem bitten by the summer-bug, but Senioritis will have to wait–AP review season is in full swing, and the tests are now only about a month away!
Are AP Tests Important?
What’s all the hype about Advanced Placement (AP) tests beyond helping with college admissions? Believe it or not, scoring well on an AP [...]

It has been over a year since President Obama announced his hopes to bolster student aid by overhauling the student loan system, and last week (in the same piece of legislation that pushed through his health care reform) changes were finally made–but they weren’t at all what many higher education advocates, parents and students had [...]