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Helping Your Deaf Child Prepare for College
Being deaf and heading off to college in the traditional way definitely presents a whole host of unique challenges. If your deaf child wants to have t...
ADMISSIONS
How Online College Can Be More Affordable Than a Traditional Degree
There comes a time when a child sits down with their parents to discuss their options for education after high school. Of course, there are many alter...
My Experience As A First Generation College Student
When you think of a first-generation college student, you probably don’t think of a 5’11” white kid with blonde hair and blue eyes from the suburbs of...
Accepted To College: Should I Hold Out For More Money Before Committing?
As an experienced mother in the college admissions process, here’s my warning – once your student is accepted but not yet committed, be pr...
FINANCING
Three Financial Benefits to Paying Off Your Student Loans
We are all very familiar with the unfortunate reality of student debt. Today, 70% of students will graduate with significant debt that will take an av...
College Admissions Decisions & Financial Aid Survey For The Class Of 2023
Over 550 families of high school seniors from our Paying For College 101 Facebook group responded to our 2019 “Did You Get What You Expected?” ...
Creative Ways to Pay for College
Financing your child’s college experience is daunting to say the least. Over the past 30 years, the price of tuition at a state school has risen 213%,...
PLANNING
What to Do When You’ve Been Rejected from Your Dream School
The college application process is something that we only have to go through once…if we are lucky. It can be exhausting, defeating, and upsetting. How...
Three Advantages to Attending Community College Before a Four-Year School
For some, the idea of community college feels like a letdown or disappointment. However, it is nothing to scoff at, and it certainly shouldn’t be remo...
How Ethical is Your College Counselor?
The latest scandal in college admissions is VERY unfortunate. I’m sure everybody likes hearing about a good scandal now and then, and there are...
